From hmeij at wesleyan.edu  Mon Aug  2 11:46:10 2004
From: hmeij at wesleyan.edu (Henk Meij)
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 11:46:10 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] fresh_install problems with org.postgresql.Driver
	class
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20040802113456.01c3e040@hmeij.mail.wesleyan.edu>

Hi, my install process has hit a snag...

ant fresh_install returns this error when attempting an install as user dspace:

<snip>
setup_database:
      [java] 2004-08-02 11:39:46,136 
INFO  org.dspace.storage.rdbms.InitializeDatabase @ Initializing Database
      [java] 2004-08-02 11:39:46,252 
WARN  org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager @ Exception initializing DB pool
      [java] java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.postgresql.Driver
<snip>


i've looked inside every *.jar file in the dspace source directory but the 
org.postgresql.Driver class is missing ... where should i find this driver???

-Henk

path & version information------

java version "1.4.2_02"
CLASSPATH=/usr/java/lib:/usr/java:/usr/java/jre/lib:.


dspace-1.1.1.tar.gz
dspace-docs-1.1.1-1.zip

jsp-1_2-fcs-classfiles.zip
apache-ant-1.6.2-bin.tar.gz
jaf-1_0_2-upd.zip
javamail-1_3_2-ea.zip
postgresql-7.4.3.tar.gz

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Wesleyan University
860.685.3477


From ojd20 at cam.ac.uk  Mon Aug  2 11:54:03 2004
From: ojd20 at cam.ac.uk (Jim Downing)
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 16:54:03 +0100
Subject: [Dspace-general] fresh_install problems with
	org.postgresql.Driver class
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040802113456.01c3e040@hmeij.mail.wesleyan.edu>
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20040802113456.01c3e040@hmeij.mail.wesleyan.edu>
Message-ID: <1091462042.12537.61.camel@sleeperservice.csi.cam.ac.uk>

http://jdbc.postgresql.org/

jim

PS the dspace-tech list is better for this type of technical enquiry

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 16:46, Henk Meij wrote:
> Hi, my install process has hit a snag...
> 
> ant fresh_install returns this error when attempting an install as user dspace:
> 
> <snip>
> setup_database:
>       [java] 2004-08-02 11:39:46,136 
> INFO  org.dspace.storage.rdbms.InitializeDatabase @ Initializing Database
>       [java] 2004-08-02 11:39:46,252 
> WARN  org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager @ Exception initializing DB pool
>       [java] java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.postgresql.Driver
> <snip>
> 
> 
> i've looked inside every *.jar file in the dspace source directory but the 
> org.postgresql.Driver class is missing ... where should i find this driver???
> 
> -Henk
> 
> path & version information------
> 
> java version "1.4.2_02"
> CLASSPATH=/usr/java/lib:/usr/java:/usr/java/jre/lib:.
> 
> 
> dspace-1.1.1.tar.gz
> dspace-docs-1.1.1-1.zip
> 
> jsp-1_2-fcs-classfiles.zip
> apache-ant-1.6.2-bin.tar.gz
> jaf-1_0_2-upd.zip
> javamail-1_3_2-ea.zip
> postgresql-7.4.3.tar.gz
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Wesleyan University
> 860.685.3477
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Dspace-general mailing list
> Dspace-general at mit.edu
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general

From hmeij at wesleyan.edu  Tue Aug  3 09:32:26 2004
From: hmeij at wesleyan.edu (Henk Meij)
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 09:32:26 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] fresh_install problems with
  org.postgresql.Driver class
In-Reply-To: <1091462042.12537.61.camel@sleeperservice.csi.cam.ac.uk>
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20040802113456.01c3e040@hmeij.mail.wesleyan.edu>
 <5.1.0.14.2.20040802113456.01c3e040@hmeij.mail.wesleyan.edu>
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20040803090631.01bf63c8@hmeij.mail.wesleyan.edu>

At 04:54 PM 8/2/2004 +0100, Jim Downing wrote:

thank you ... i first downloaded the pg73jdbc3.jar driver for rdbms 7.3, 
and received the 'SET AUTOCOMMIT TO OFF' error mentioned by others, deh, 
wrong version (i installed 7.4.3)

so i cleaned my build, cleaned_database, rebuild it, and used the newest 
driver, pg74.214.jdbc3.jar, and fresh_install ran without errors.  i'll 
move my q's over to the tech list, just wanted to follow up.

-Henk



>http://jdbc.postgresql.org/
>
>jim
>
>PS the dspace-tech list is better for this type of technical enquiry
>
>On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 16:46, Henk Meij wrote:
> > Hi, my install process has hit a snag...
> >
> > ant fresh_install returns this error when attempting an install as user 
> dspace:
> >
> > <snip>
> > setup_database:
> >       [java] 2004-08-02 11:39:46,136
> > INFO  org.dspace.storage.rdbms.InitializeDatabase @ Initializing Database
> >       [java] 2004-08-02 11:39:46,252
> > WARN  org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager @ Exception initializing 
> DB pool
> >       [java] java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.postgresql.Driver
> > <snip>
> >
> >
> > i've looked inside every *.jar file in the dspace source directory but the
> > org.postgresql.Driver class is missing ... where should i find this 
> driver???
> >
> > -Henk
> >
> > path & version information------
> >
> > java version "1.4.2_02"
> > CLASSPATH=/usr/java/lib:/usr/java:/usr/java/jre/lib:.
> >
> >
> > dspace-1.1.1.tar.gz
> > dspace-docs-1.1.1-1.zip
> >
> > jsp-1_2-fcs-classfiles.zip
> > apache-ant-1.6.2-bin.tar.gz
> > jaf-1_0_2-upd.zip
> > javamail-1_3_2-ea.zip
> > postgresql-7.4.3.tar.gz
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > Wesleyan University
> > 860.685.3477
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Dspace-general mailing list
> > Dspace-general at mit.edu
> > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
>_______________________________________________
>Dspace-general mailing list
>Dspace-general at mit.edu
>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
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From lratliff at library.ucla.edu  Tue Aug  3 10:20:08 2004
From: lratliff at library.ucla.edu (Louise Ratliff)
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 07:20:08 -0700
Subject: [Dspace-general] New DSpace listservs on the way
In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20040728174350.0201faf0@hesiod>
References: <5.2.1.1.2.20040728174350.0201faf0@hesiod>
Message-ID: <262662546.1091517608@yrl-s-cat301.library.ucla.edu>

Dear MacKenzie,
  I'm very interested in the use of DSpace for digital learning objects 
and courseware, so I would like to volunteer to help "moderate" the 
dspace-courseware list.  I haven't yet had the chance to actually use 
our DSpace yet, but I'm hoping to do so before summer ends.  Sigh, 
things always take longer than one expects!
  By the way, I believe you know Anne Gilliland-Swetland?  I see her in 
passing here at UCLA, and I hope to contact her in the fall to talk 
more about metadata and learning objects.
  Thanks,
Louise

--On Wednesday, July 28, 2004 6:05 PM -0400 MacKenzie Smith 
<kenzie at mit.edu> wrote:

> Greetings from Cambridge, MA.
>
> As an outcome of the DSpace user group meeting in March, MIT was
> asked to set up some new DSpace listservs to provide fora for people
> with common interests around specific uses of DSpace to congregate
> and collaborate, rather than using dspace-general for everything...
> not that it's all that busy, but people feel more comfortable knowing
> that their questions and comments are going out to a group who their
> interests. The proposed set of lists is:
>
> dspace-courseware (or maybe dspace-LOR)
> dspace-datasets
> dspace-ERM (for Electronic Records Management)
> dspace-IR
> dspace-preservation
> dspace-publishing
> dspace-theses
>
> The idea is that you would continue to subscribe to dspace-general
> for announcements and to ask general questions, and you would
> additionally subscribe to any special-purpose list of interest. Each
> list will have one or two people who "shepherd" it (i.e. not
> officially moderate, but try to keep the conversation going). So far
> I have volunteers for the dspace-ERM and dspace-datasets lists, so I
> still need volunteers to help shepherd the lists on Learning Object
> Repositories (dspace-courseware), Institutional Repositories
> (dspace-IR), preservation and publishing, and theses. That last one
> has some overlap with a new NDLTD-DSpace interest group, but that's a
> closed list so I think we need this one as well.
>
> Someone from MIT will subscribe to each list too, and will have
> access to the local DSpace developers when that's handy. If you'd
> like to volunteer just let me know (it really shouldn't be much work,
> just a commitment to read the list traffic and keep the ball rolling).
>
> Please reply if you have a better suggestion for one of the list
> names, or if you think of one I've missed, or if you think this whole
> thing is silly... this is an experiment to see if these are useful to
> people. If in six months they're all dormant, I'll kill them again
> and wait until there's a demand.
>
> Thanks,
>
> MacKenzie
>
>
> MacKenzie Smith
> Associate Director for Technology
> MIT Libraries
> Building 14S-308
> 77 Massachusetts Avenue
> Cambridge, MA  02139
> (617)253-8184
> kenzie at mit.edu
> _______________________________________________
> Dspace-general mailing list
> Dspace-general at mit.edu
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general



____________________________
Louise Ratliff
Social Sciences Cataloger
UCLA Library Cataloging Center
(310) 825-8642

From robert.tansley at hp.com  Tue Aug  3 12:57:18 2004
From: robert.tansley at hp.com (Tansley, Robert)
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:57:18 -0700 
Subject: [Dspace-tech] Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace Position Paper - HP
	 Labs (fwd)
Message-ID: <40700B4C02ABD5119F000090278766440C654F4A@hplex1.hpl.hp.com>

Hi all,

I think MacKenzie's comments are spot on.  The future of the DSpace platform relies on involvement from a wider community than just the individuals on the HP and MIT team.  A software project with the scope DSpace now finds it has needs a far greater pool of resources to work on it and move it forward.  If everyone relies on HP and MIT to fix bugs and implement features, the number of people in this pool will not grow sufficiently and progress will be slow.

So yes, by focussing on some architectural issues, HP is for the time being stepping back from the role of fixing bugs and implementing new features in 1.x; however, whether HP do that or not, other people need to step forward to take some of the load.  Perhaps now others will feel more freedom and incentive to contribute their bug fixes and code to the platform.

I'd also like to reinforce that HP does wish to remain involved in the DSpace project.  What we want to see happen, as stated in the position paper, is to move to a more robust and modular architecture.  Naturally, this also needs to be a group effort and can only move forward with involvement of others, in a way that makes sense for the whole community.

 Robert Tansley / Digital Media Systems Programme / HP Labs
  http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Robert_Tansley/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dspace-tech-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:dspace-tech-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of 
> MacKenzie Smith
> Sent: 29 July 2004 11:00
> To: dspace-general at mit.edu; dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Dspace-tech] Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace Position 
> Paper - HP Labs (fwd)
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> I was going to respond to your post on dspace-tech, but since 
> you copied it 
> here I'll reply to both lists at once. First let me say that I don't 
> presume to speak for Rob, or HP Labs, in any way... I just 
> represent how 
> MIT fits into the DSpace open source software community, and 
> I have talked 
> to HP about their ongoing interests so I know a bit about 
> where they're 
> coming from.
> I'd also like to point out that the institution you work for 
> (Cambridge 
> University) has a very active 'committer' in the person of 
> Jim Downing, and 
> that he might have opinions about some of this too.
> But here's my take on it:
> 
> -- At the user group meeting last March there was clear 
> consensus that 
> DSpace should behave like other large/growing open source software 
> projects, and expand its development process to be more 
> inclusive of people 
> from all the institutions who depend on the platform. That's 
> why we created 
> the DSpace 'committer' group to manage the codebase, which you have a 
> representative on. This is standard practice in open source software 
> projects, and is based loosely on the Apache Foundation's model.
> 
> -- We also said then (and have repeatedly said since) that 
> both MIT and HP 
> are committed to remaining actively involved in the DSpace 
> project, but 
> will, as is standard practice in OSS communities, be focusing 
> our limited 
> resources on the things that our organizations need most. We 
> have in the 
> past devoted some resources to features that we didn't need 
> ourselves, but 
> that is likely to become less common over time, as other 
> institutions pick 
> up some of the load, including yours.
> 
> -- A thriving, successful open source software community can 
> *only* exist 
> if *many* people are involved, and not just the originators (in fact, 
> there's a belief in some OSS quarters that a good project 
> doesn't really 
> take off until the originator leave completely so that the 
> community feels 
> free to do whatever they need to... we don't think we need to 
> go that far, 
> but it's an illustrative point of view). As long as the user 
> community 
> thinks of the originating organizations as a sort of unpaid 
> vendor, the 
> thing will never work.
> 
> All of which goes to say that HP should focus on what HP 
> wants from DSpace, 
> and right now that's the 2.0 architecture and a migration 
> plan for getting 
> from here to there. But I think everyone realizes that 
> development on the 
> 1.x tree can't stop while 2.0 is being developed, so we 
> (collectively) need 
> to be a bit creative about how to support both a short-term 
> 1.x development 
> track and a 2.0 development track that neatly merge in a year 
> or two. This 
> might turn out to be impossible, but that's the challenge for the 
> committers group, and particularly those working on the 2.0 effort.
> 
> Since DSpace is now a full-blown open source software 
> project, what HP and 
> MIT do in relation to it should be somewhat irrelevant in the 
> big picture, 
> except of course that we have some great programmers and good 
> ideas about 
> where DSpace should go :-) So in a way, you shouldn't feel 
> you need to ask 
> this question. If you want things to go one way or the other, 
> lobby your 
> representative on the committers group (or get someone on the 
> group if you 
> aren't represented). That's my opinion anyway, and I'll let 
> Rob answer for 
> HP when he's back in town.
> 
> MacKenzie
> 
> 
> 
> At 01:54 PM 7/29/2004 +0100, Tom De Mulder wrote:
> 
> >I sent the mail below to DSpace-tech, but I thought it might 
> be useful to
> >post here, too, since I think quite a few people here work 
> at institutions
> >that are using DSpace 1.2 and might be worried about a 
> sudden switch to
> >2.0 architecture leaving the 1.x branch behind.
> >
> >I'd personally most like to hear MacKenzie's viewpoint on 
> this - what's
> >MIT's stance?
> >
> >--
> >Tom De Mulder <tdm27 at cam.ac.uk> - Cambridge University 
> Computing Service
> >                    New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, 
> Cambridge CB2 3QH
> >-> 29/07/2004 : The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (72% of Full)
> >
> >---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:20:53 +0100 (BST)
> >From: Tom De Mulder <tdm27 at cam.ac.uk>
> >To: dspace-tech <dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net>
> >Subject: DSpace Position Paper - HP Labs
> >
> >Hello all (and esp. Rob and the folks at MIT),
> >
> >I was reading HP's Position Paper 
> >(http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/HpPositionPaper)
> >and noticed the following:
> >
> >"We believe all of the above goals are best served by 
> concentrating on
> >moving DSpace to the proposed 'version 2.0' architecture as soon as
> >possible. This is where our efforts will henceforth be focussed."
> >
> >Does this mean that the 1.x branch won't be further 
> developed by HP? What
> >about bug fixes and feature requests?
> >
> >--
> >Tom De Mulder <tdm27 at cam.ac.uk> - Cambridge University 
> Computing Service
> >                    New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, 
> Cambridge CB2 3QH
> >-> 28/07/2004 : The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (64% of Full)
> >_______________________________________________
> >Dspace-general mailing list
> >Dspace-general at mit.edu
> >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
> 
> MacKenzie Smith
> Associate Director for Technology
> MIT Libraries
> Building 14S-308
> 77 Massachusetts Avenue
> Cambridge, MA  02139
> (617)253-8184
> kenzie at mit.edu 
> 
> 
> 
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From kweekes at library.uwi.tt  Tue Aug  3 10:51:07 2004
From: kweekes at library.uwi.tt (Kevin Weekes)
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:51:07 -0400 
Subject: [Dspace-general] Security Setting in Tomcat Server
Message-ID: <21530F7443DED311AC3500C04F238E88D273A1@SANTW40LIBRY001>

There appears to be a security issue with the default tomcat installation
whereby web users can browse the directory contents if a default web file
has not been specified for a folder

The configuration file in the Tomcat installation
/$CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml
near line 50

has a tag for listing that by default is set to true.
The lines of commented out documentation  which start just before explain
the setting more fully.

From r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk  Wed Aug  4 04:52:47 2004
From: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk (Richard Jones)
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:52:47 +0100
Subject: [Dspace-general] Tapir 0.3 Beta
In-Reply-To: <41102D0E.60307@anu.edu.au>
Message-ID: <C204F799D9070A41933C43F0F7C5BBF4AE473E@quicksilver.ucs.ed.ac.uk>

Hi All,

Apologies for the long delay on any new code from Edinburgh.

The Tapir now has it's own home at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tapir-eul

And a beta of 0.3 has been released which provides some E-Theses
capacities for DSpace 1.2.  If there are any compatibility issues,
please let me know and we can sort them out.

Cheers,

Richard
-------
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Systems Developer               A crash reduces
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Theses Alive! project           to a simple stone

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From SGibbons at library.rochester.edu  Wed Aug  4 11:07:01 2004
From: SGibbons at library.rochester.edu (Susan Gibbons)
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:07:01 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace work-in-progress at the Univ. of Rochester
Message-ID: <s110c366.014@mail.lib.rochester.edu>

Based on the findings of a year-long study funded by a 2004 Institute of
Museum and Library Service, National Leadership grant, the University of
Rochester is building two new pages for its DSpace implementation: a
Researcher Page and Research Tools. The Researcher Page is a showcase
for a faculty member's DSpace content with links to non-DSpace items,
such as additional writings. Research Tools is the page the faculty
member uses to launch and edit the Researcher Page. It also allows the
faculty member to search DSpace and other repositories and databases, as
well as our library catalog. Our vision is to build a system that
manages working documents as well as allowing for self-archiving and
self-publishing; these pages are our first step in that direction.
Information from a research project along with more information about
what we want to do is available
athttp://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-13766/IMLSGrantFAQs.html.
Our lead Java programmer for this project is Nathan Sarr.
 
If anyone wants to work with us on this, please get in touch off-list.
 
 
 
Susan Gibbons
Assistant Dean for Public Services 
& Collection Development
River Campus Libraries
University of Rochester
585-275-6320
sgibbons at library.rochester.edu
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From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 12:57:03 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] New DSpace SIG listservs are ready to go
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From kenzie at MIT.EDU  Thu Aug  5 13:05:36 2004
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 13:05:36 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: New DSpace SIG listservs are ready to go
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From pol-admin at uni-duisburg.de  Mon Aug  9 06:27:53 2004
From: pol-admin at uni-duisburg.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Nettingsmeier?=)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 12:27:53 +0200
Subject: [Dspace-general] 
 [OT] html postings [was: New DSpace SIG listservs are ready to go]
In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20040805130439.01f49658@hesiod>
References: <5.2.1.1.2.20040805130439.01f49658@hesiod>
Message-ID: <411751A9.7@uni-duisburg.de>

MacKenzie Smith wrote:
> Sorry about that font for your name Pat, I pasted that from an old email 
> of yours and it wasn't meant to imply anything :-)

which goes to show, once again, the nameless evil of html email.
/me runs ;)

seriously, i would like to see html and "enriched" postings banned from 
the mailing list.

i run a couple lists myself and all have a strict no-html policy, which 
makes for very efficient spam filters, keeps the load on the servers 
down and has the nice side effect that people have to know how to 
configure their mailers before they can post (the downside being me 
mailing out 5-10 outlook howtos per week to users who write to the admin 
address and wonder why their postings don't show :)




> MacKenzie

-- 
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Universit?t Duisburg-Essen, Standort Duisburg
Mail: pol-admin at uni-duisburg.de, Telefon: 0203/379-2736

From wsimpson at UDel.Edu  Mon Aug  9 11:08:36 2004
From: wsimpson at UDel.Edu (William Simpson)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 11:08:36 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] topic: file usage
Message-ID: <41179374.1090409@udel.edu>

Can DSpace record the number of times that a document is displayed [in 
DSpace] by users?

William Simpson
Reference Department
University of Delaware


From wsimpson at udel.edu  Mon Aug  9 11:09:15 2004
From: wsimpson at udel.edu (William Simpson)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 11:09:15 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] topic: file usage
Message-ID: <4117939B.7020806@udel.edu>

Can DSpace record the number of times that a document is displayed [in 
DSpace] by users?

William Simpson
Reference Department
University of Delaware


From rrodgers at MIT.EDU  Mon Aug  9 11:09:40 2004
From: rrodgers at MIT.EDU (Richard Rodgers)
Date: Mon,  9 Aug 2004 11:09:40 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] topic: file usage
In-Reply-To: <4117939B.7020806@udel.edu>
References: <4117939B.7020806@udel.edu>
Message-ID: <1092064180.411793b47646b@webmail.mit.edu>

William:

DSpace doesn't internally track usage, but such information is readily
available
from the web application server that it runs under. For instance, if you run
Apache as a front-end, the 'access' logs can be massaged to provide item- or
bitstream-level information about access. You can even determine the IP
addresses of the accesses, etc.

Thanks,

Richard Rodgers

Quoting William Simpson <wsimpson at udel.edu>:

> Can DSpace record the number of times that a document is displayed [in 
> DSpace] by users?
> 
> William Simpson
> Reference Department
> University of Delaware
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Dspace-general mailing list
> Dspace-general at mit.edu
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
> 




From rrodgers at MIT.EDU  Mon Aug  9 12:41:16 2004
From: rrodgers at MIT.EDU (Richard Rodgers)
Date: Mon,  9 Aug 2004 12:41:16 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] topic: file usage
In-Reply-To: <4117A4A1.2010901@udel.edu>
References: <4117939B.7020806@udel.edu>
	<1092064180.411793b47646b@webmail.mit.edu> <4117A4A1.2010901@udel.edu>
Message-ID: <1092069676.4117a92c95042@webmail.mit.edu>

William:

I don't think there is any limit to 'repeatable' fields such as keyword, but
you can easily try a sample submission in which you add a lot of keywords, then
delete the item. As to links to authority lists or other controlled
vocabularies, it is an area of much interest to the DSpace community, but no
specific supportis available in the imminent 1.2 release.

Thanks for your interest in DSpace,

Richard

Quoting William Simpson <wsimpson at udel.edu>:

> Richard,
> 
> Thank you for the speedy reply. I have another question: The DSpace 
> documentation says that you can get more input boxes for keywords by 
> clicking on the "add more" button. I haven't started uploading files yet 
> into DSpace, so I'm wondering if there is a limit on the number of 
> keywords per file?  I've got some documents ready to upload in to DSpace 
> and some of them have about 15 keywords.  
> 
> One last question related to keywords, according to the DSpace 
> documentation on the web site, it says that "future versions of DSpace 
> will provide links to those [an online thesaurus, e.g.] lists."  Do you 
> know if this function is available in the new release of DSpace?
> 
> Thanks again for taking my questions.
> 
> William Simpson
> Reference Dept
>
 University of DE
> 
> Richard Rodgers wrote:
> 
> >William:
> >
> >DSpace doesn't internally track usage, but such information is readily
> >available
> >from the web application server that it runs under. For instance, if you
> run
> >Apache as a front-end, the 'access' logs can be massaged to provide item-
> or
> >bitstream-level information about access. You can even determine the IP
> >addresses of the accesses, etc.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Richard Rodgers
> >
> >Quoting William Simpson <wsimpson at udel.edu>:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Can DSpace record the number of times that a document is displayed [in 
> >>DSpace] by users?
> >>
> >>William Simpson
> >>Reference Department
> >>University of Delaware
> >>
> >>_______________________________________________
> >>Dspace-general mailing list
> >>Dspace-general at mit.edu
> >>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 




From adevenish at whoi.edu  Thu Aug 12 11:43:30 2004
From: adevenish at whoi.edu (Ann Devenish)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:43:30 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] Still in beta 3?
Message-ID: <411B9022.6040400@whoi.edu>

Is DSpace 1.2 still in beta 3 or has a final version been announced?  If 
it has not been "finalized", is there a date forecasted?

Thanks for any information,
Ann

-- 
Ann Devenish
MBLWHOI Library
Clark 131 - MS26
Woods Hole, MA  02543

Phone: 508.289.2865
Fax: 508.457.2156


From robert.tansley at hp.com  Fri Aug 13 10:35:23 2004
From: robert.tansley at hp.com (Tansley, Robert)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:35:23 -0700
Subject: [Dspace-general] Two New Committers
Message-ID: <40700B4C02ABD5119F000090278766440C655874@hplex1.hpl.hp.com>

The DSpace committers group is pleased to announce the addition of two new members:

Gabriela Mircea, University of Toronto
Scott Yeadon, Austrialian National University

Both Gabriela and Scott are already very active contributors to the DSpace effort, and we believe as DSpace committers their efforts will benefit the DSpace platform and wider community even further.

From robert.tansley at hp.com  Fri Aug 13 16:25:41 2004
From: robert.tansley at hp.com (Tansley, Robert)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:25:41 -0700
Subject: [Dspace-general] Announcement: DSpace version 1.2 released
Message-ID: <40700B4C02ABD5119F000090278766440C65592C@hplex1.hpl.hp.com>

The DSpace team are delighted to announce the availability of DSpace version 1.2 for download.  As well as the usual plethora of bug fixes, this version introduces many enhancements since the previous stable release, including:

 - Communities can now contain sub-communities 
 - Items may be included in more than one collection 
 - Support for selecting Creative Commons license during submission
 - Full text extraction and searching for MS Word, PDF, HTML, text documents
 - Automated generation and display of image thumbnails
 - Much-improved administrative user interface
 - Some delegation of administration tasks possible
 - Improvements in OAI-PMH support
 - METS export tool
 - Simplified install process

The new version may be downloaded from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/

This release also marks the transition of DSpace from a largely centralised effort at HP Labs and MIT to a much wider open source effort, giving those who have worked with DSpace the opportunity to contribute back into the code base for the benefit of all.  DSpace has an expanding group of 'committers' from a variety of organisations and geographies, responsible for maintaining the code base.  This team needs the participation of the DSpace community for bug fixes, enhancements and other contributions that will drive the evolution of the DSpace platform.  So please, get involved!

From kenzie at MIT.EDU  Fri Aug 13 20:21:08 2004
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 20:21:08 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: New DSpace SIG listservs are ready to go
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From wsimpson at UDel.Edu  Wed Aug 18 13:53:08 2004
From: wsimpson at UDel.Edu (William Simpson)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:53:08 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] converting non-searchable PDF's to searchable PDF's 
Message-ID: <41239784.2040105@udel.edu>

We're uploading some PDFs into DSpace here at the University of Delaware, and the software used to create the PDF files is an older software (not sure what application was used), so I found out that the PDFs are not full text searchable in DSpace (ie, because they are TIFF formatted files). So the question is, does anyone know whether Adobe Acrobat Capture 3.0, or any application for that matter, can convert PDF TIFFs to "True" PDFs, or is it easier to start from scratch, and rescan the original documents?

William Simpson
University of Delaware Library



From DKolka at netLibrary.com  Wed Aug 18 14:13:07 2004
From: DKolka at netLibrary.com (Dave Kolka)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:13:07 -0600
Subject: [Dspace-general] converting non-searchable PDF's to searchabl
	e PDF's 
Message-ID: <8B499C5ACCA965439B3F6712E7ADABBD0C93DC53@mailman.netlibrary.com>

William,
Acrobat Capture, as it is found in Acrobat 6.0, can ocr image-based pdfs in
a couple of different ways. One, is to give you what you described a 'true'
pdf or otherwise know as pdf normal.  Two, is to maintain the raster pdf and
add a layer of searchable text within the pdf document.  The problem with
the first option is that you may have to review the 'true' pdf's text for
ocr accuracy.  This generally adds a level of QA to the production process
that is both time and man hour intensive.  Most OCR software will give you
both of these options.

Dave
netLibrary

-----Original Message-----
From: William Simpson [mailto:wsimpson at UDel.Edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 11:53 AM
To: dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: [Dspace-general] converting non-searchable PDF's to searchable
PDF's 

We're uploading some PDFs into DSpace here at the University of Delaware,
and the software used to create the PDF files is an older software (not sure
what application was used), so I found out that the PDFs are not full text
searchable in DSpace (ie, because they are TIFF formatted files). So the
question is, does anyone know whether Adobe Acrobat Capture 3.0, or any
application for that matter, can convert PDF TIFFs to "True" PDFs, or is it
easier to start from scratch, and rescan the original documents?


William Simpson
University of Delaware Library


_______________________________________________
Dspace-general mailing list
Dspace-general at mit.edu
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general

From j.krizack at neu.edu  Thu Aug 19 13:05:06 2004
From: j.krizack at neu.edu (j.krizack@neu.edu)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:05:06 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] Joan Krizack/Library/NEU is out of the office.
Message-ID: <OF6297462B.EB6FFE3D-ON85256EF5.005DD9D1-85256EF5.005DD9D2@neu.edu>

I will be out of the office starting  08/19/2004 and will not return until
08/30/2004.

I will respond to your message when I return.



From j.krizack at neu.edu  Fri Aug 20 12:08:36 2004
From: j.krizack at neu.edu (j.krizack@neu.edu)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:08:36 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] Joan Krizack/Library/NEU is out of the office.
Message-ID: <OF8D612880.5A70B041-ON85256EF6.0058ADC5-85256EF6.0058ADC5@neu.edu>

I will be out of the office starting  08/19/2004 and will not return until
08/30/2004.

I will respond to your message when I return.



From lcourtney at mvista.com  Wed Aug 25 13:29:20 2004
From: lcourtney at mvista.com (Lee Courtney)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:29:20 -0700
Subject: [Dspace-general] Non-academic DSpace Users 
Message-ID: <CKEHKGBEPGNFIIBBGIJAIEIFMMAA.lcourtney@mvista.com>

Hi all,

Could I get a pointer or list of non-academic institutions which are
evaluating or have implemented DSpace? I'm specifically interested in
Museums or other non-profit organizations. Someone who has implemented
DSpace as a repository for computer software (source, executables,
documentation, etc.) would be a great find, as that is the application we
are looking at DSpace for.

Feel free to reply on on-list or directly via courtney at computerhistory.org.
TIA!

Cheers,

Lee Courtney
Software Collection Committee
Computer History Museum

www.computerhistory.org


From kenzie at MIT.EDU  Wed Aug 25 21:35:01 2004
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:35:01 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] Non-academic DSpace Users 
In-Reply-To: <CKEHKGBEPGNFIIBBGIJAIEIFMMAA.lcourtney@mvista.com>
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040825212943.01153ca0@hesiod>

Hi Courtney,

While I can completely understand your desire to see such a list, we don't 
track this information today.
There is a voluntary registration on the dspace.org website which some 
institutions have taken the trouble to do,
but we haven't promoted it much so it's very incomplete. I can tell you 
anecdotally that there are tons of non-profits
using it (since that would include every college, university, and most 
research organizations), but no museums
that I'm aware of.

As for software, I don't know of anyone doing that now, and I'd be a bit 
surprised to find one since
DSpace is meant to be a long-term preservation archive and preserving 
executable code is still very much a research
problem. However it *could* be used for that sort of thing, and we will 
soon be archiving applets as part of course
websites, which is sort of the same thing...

MacKenzie

At 10:29 AM 8/25/2004 -0700, Lee Courtney wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Could I get a pointer or list of non-academic institutions which are
>evaluating or have implemented DSpace? I'm specifically interested in
>Museums or other non-profit organizations. Someone who has implemented
>DSpace as a repository for computer software (source, executables,
>documentation, etc.) would be a great find, as that is the application we
>are looking at DSpace for.
>
>Feel free to reply on on-list or directly via courtney at computerhistory.org.
>TIA!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Lee Courtney
>Software Collection Committee
>Computer History Museum
>
>www.computerhistory.org
>
>_______________________________________________
>Dspace-general mailing list
>Dspace-general at mit.edu
>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general

MacKenzie Smith
Associate Director for Technology
MIT Libraries
Building 14S-308
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139
(617)253-8184
kenzie at mit.edu 


From mr41 at cornell.edu  Thu Aug 26 08:10:24 2004
From: mr41 at cornell.edu (Marcy Rosenkrantz)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 08:10:24 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] Cornell to Distribute Open Source E-Publishing
	System
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040826080949.03998ce0@postoffice8.mail.cornell.edu>

We thought the community of DSpace users might be interested in this press 
release concerning DPubS, the Cornell Library-developed publication 
management system.  My apologies if you have also received this press 
release from another source.
Marcy Rosenkrantz

>
>----------
>
>For Release: August 24, 2004
>
>Contact:  Sarah E. Thomas, Cornell University Librarian, 
><set9 at cornell.edu>, (607) 255-3689; or
>Thomas Hickerson, Assoc. Univ. Librarian for Information Technologies and 
>Special Collections, <hth2 at cornell.edu>, (607) 255-9965
>
>
>
>
>Cornell Library to Distribute its Open Source Electronic Publishing System
>
>
>
>
>
>Ithaca, NY -- Cornell University Library is developing an open source 
>publication management system that will provide authors and publishers 
>with a more affordable way to publish scholarly research on the Web. In 
>making its DPubS software available to libraries, university presses, and 
>other independent publishers, Cornell will expand opportunities for 
>creative communication among scholars around the world.
>
>Cornell has received a $670,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 
>to enhance and extend its innovative electronic publishing software called 
>DPubS (Digital Publishing System). "DPubS will offer libraries, university 
>presses, and others the capability to publish open access or 
>subscription-based journals more cost effectively. It should be a terrific 
>catalyst for change in scholarly publishing," said Sarah Thomas, Cornell 
>University Librarian.
>
>Detailed News Release attached, or go to: 
>http://alumni.library.cornell.edu/news/news_story.cfm?id=48

Marcy E. Rosenkrantz
Director, Library Systems
Cornell University Library
502 Olin Library
Ithaca, NY 14853

tel. (607) 255-0653
fax (607) 254-5419
e-mail: mr41 at cornell.edu
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From lcourtney at mvista.com  Thu Aug 26 14:28:52 2004
From: lcourtney at mvista.com (Lee Courtney)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:28:52 -0700
Subject: [Dspace-general] Non-academic DSpace Users 
In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20040825212943.01153ca0@hesiod>
Message-ID: <CKEHKGBEPGNFIIBBGIJACEKMMMAA.lcourtney@mvista.com>

MacKenzie,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

> However it *could* be used for that sort of thing, and we will
> soon be archiving applets as part of course
> websites, which is sort of the same thing...

I'd love to hear how this project progresses, both at MIT and any other
institutions. If you should run across anyone else looking at archiving
software content please feel free to point them at me.

In a nutshell the Software Collection repository will be capable of storing,
preserving, and enabling interpretation (e.g. execution) and study of
software systems and their individual components. This includes source code,
object code, executables, libraries, design notes, related material (oral
histories, marketing materials, etc.) and appropriate tools/emulators
allowing interpretation of the artifacts in the repository. Our preservation
timeframe is on the 200-300+ year scale. Our user community for the archive
will be the Museum's Collections and Exhibit Development departments,
historical researchers, students, IP community, computer collectors,
industry, software development community, and individuals interested in the
development of software as a discipline. The current Museum Collection holds
several Gbytes of software, and we envision that expanding greatly. A very
fun project to be working on!

We're also looking at other solutions including commercial content
management and data mart software. I presented an overview of DSpace, as an
example, to the Software Collection Committee yesterday and got a very
positive response. Right now we're using DSpace to ask questions and help
define what's possible. A lot of the solution will be driven by user
requirements (both inside and outside the Museum) that we're gathering in
the next couple months.

I'm very impressed with the community surrounding DSpace and what
institutions have done with it. Looking forward to learning more. If you
should have any questions, comments, or I can be of assistance please drop
me an email.

Cheers,

Lee Courtney
Software Collection Committee, Computer History Museum

P.S. And of course if you're out in the San Francisco area please stop by
and visit the Museum!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MacKenzie Smith [mailto:kenzie at MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 6:35 PM
> To: courtney at computerhistory.org; dspace-general at MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Non-academic DSpace Users
>
>
> Hi Courtney,
>
> While I can completely understand your desire to see such a list,
> we don't
> track this information today.
> There is a voluntary registration on the dspace.org website which some
> institutions have taken the trouble to do,
> but we haven't promoted it much so it's very incomplete. I can tell you
> anecdotally that there are tons of non-profits
> using it (since that would include every college, university, and most
> research organizations), but no museums
> that I'm aware of.
>
> As for software, I don't know of anyone doing that now, and I'd be a bit
> surprised to find one since
> DSpace is meant to be a long-term preservation archive and preserving
> executable code is still very much a research
> problem. However it *could* be used for that sort of thing, and we will
> soon be archiving applets as part of course
> websites, which is sort of the same thing...
>
> MacKenzie
>
> At 10:29 AM 8/25/2004 -0700, Lee Courtney wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Could I get a pointer or list of non-academic institutions which are
> >evaluating or have implemented DSpace? I'm specifically interested in
> >Museums or other non-profit organizations. Someone who has implemented
> >DSpace as a repository for computer software (source, executables,
> >documentation, etc.) would be a great find, as that is the application we
> >are looking at DSpace for.
> >
> >Feel free to reply on on-list or directly via
> courtney at computerhistory.org.
> >TIA!
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Lee Courtney
> >Software Collection Committee
> >Computer History Museum
> >
> >www.computerhistory.org
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >Dspace-general mailing list
> >Dspace-general at mit.edu
> >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
>
> MacKenzie Smith
> Associate Director for Technology
> MIT Libraries
> Building 14S-308
> 77 Massachusetts Avenue
> Cambridge, MA  02139
> (617)253-8184
> kenzie at mit.edu
>


From kenzie at MIT.EDU  Fri Aug 27 13:13:18 2004
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:13:18 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] Fwd: CARL Institutional Repositories Workshop
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From robert.tansley at hp.com  Fri Aug 27 16:23:53 2004
From: robert.tansley at hp.com (Tansley, Robert)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:23:53 -0700
Subject: [Dspace-general] Call for use cases
Message-ID: <40700B4C02ABD5119F000090278766440C9CD1D4@hplex1.hpl.hp.com>

It's become clear that the simple DSpace 1.2 data model (bundles, bitstreams and bitstream formats) isn't sufficient for many purposes, particularly preservation.  I'm currently thinking about how the data model can be evolved to address preservation needs better.

As part of this process I'm gathering use cases.  These use cases are focussed on the sort of content that may be stored, and what sort of supporting information (representation information) ideally needs to be stored with it in order to keep it usable in the future (by migration or emulation etc).  Aspects such as how the information is captured or submission workflows are out of scope.

I've started a page on the DSpace Wiki (a sort of group scratchboard) which anyone can sign up to and add to.  I'd like to invite any interested parties to sign up and add or annotate any use cases on the following page:

http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/AssetStoreUseCases

I look forward to your participation!  Many thanks,

 Robert Tansley / Digital Media Systems Programme / HP Labs
  http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Robert_Tansley/

From tull.9 at osu.edu  Mon Aug 30 16:33:52 2004
From: tull.9 at osu.edu (Laura Tull)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:33:52 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] Policies at the community level
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20040830162312.00cc1ac8@pop.service.ohio-state.edu>

I have always added authorizations at the collection level.  Now I have a 
situation where I want someone to be able to submit to any of the 
collections in a community. It looks like you can add a policy at the 
community level in DSpace but I'm having trouble making it work.  If I add 
a group that has ADD authorizations to the community's authorizations, I 
get an "authorization required" message when I try to submit.

All I need to know at this point is whether this is possible.  If so, I can 
go back through my tech support folks here to figure out why it won't work.


***********************************
Laura Tull
Systems Librarian
Ohio State University Libraries
1858 Neil Avenue Mall
Columbus OH 43210-1286
Phone:  614-247-6459
Fax:  614-292-7859
Email:  tull.9 at osu.edu
***********************************


From scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au  Mon Aug 30 21:12:15 2004
From: scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au (Scott Yeadon)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:12:15 +1000
Subject: [Dspace-general] Image Handling in DSpace
Message-ID: <4133D06F.6020200@anu.edu.au>

Hello,

I just wanted to get an idea of whether the DSpace community is 
interested in a patch to be included in a later version of DSpace to 
show image thumbnails in the title browse and search results pages where 
items are comprised of (an) image bitstream(s). I've seen mention of it 
a couple of times and while we have done this locally, I want to 
refactor the code we've done to make it compatible with the mediafilter 
model of 1.2. If people are interested, post to the list with any 
ideas/thoughts/features regarding image handling and I'll start looking 
into a patch.

Also, are people interested in the option of a larger image display to 
be shown on the item display page? For an example of this have a look at 
some image items on the ANU DSpace at http://dspace.anu.edu.au/. While 
we use some (inexpensive) commercial software to do this for performance 
reasons (ImageAlchemy http://www.handmadesw.com/), if there is enough 
interest a version using free software such as ImageMagick or the java 
image libraries could be an alternative implementation (though the 
generation process is likely to be much slower).

Note the following:
- Local concerns may on occasion take priority so I'll do the work in 
stages e.g. 1) basic thumbnail viewing 2) item level images 3) 
additional generators/greater control over images, etc. This way I can 
added functionality incrementally fairly quickly
- Image options will be repository wide (i.e. thumbnails will be shown 
on a repository basis), if there is demand for per collection basis that 
may come later
- Where an item comprises multiple image bitstreams only the first will 
be shown

Anyhow let me know any thoughts/requirements and I'll start looking into 
it...

Thanks.

Scott.

From jsimms at utk.edu  Mon Aug 30 23:29:11 2004
From: jsimms at utk.edu (Jason Simms)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:29:11 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: [Dspace-tech] Image Handling in DSpace
In-Reply-To: <4133D06F.6020200@anu.edu.au>
References: <4133D06F.6020200@anu.edu.au>
Message-ID: <ECC81D81-FAFD-11D8-BFA0-000A95B3CC56@utk.edu>

Hello Scott,

You are correct to note that many people have requested thumbnails in 
the search results; from our end, we have been requesting such a 
feature since the idea of thumbnails gained wide notice, and we always 
did find it curious that the images eventually only made it into the 
item view!

One feature I would like to see is the ability to display the full 
image directly when clicking on the thumbnail from the search results, 
thus bypassing the item display page and saving a click.  If you know 
you want to see the image, why require an extra step?

Your priority list seems very reasonable, too.  While I would like to 
see larger thumbnails (or even configurable size across a wider gamut), 
the search results should probably take highest priority.  Allowing 
thumbnail on/off display toggle on a per-collection basis is a great 
idea, but again, one thing at a time.

And, as an aside, if you need a willing tester, sign me up in a 
hurry...  :-)

--
Jason Simms
Computer Programming and Design
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
865.974.8508

On Aug 30, 2004, at 9:12 PM, Scott Yeadon wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just wanted to get an idea of whether the DSpace community is 
> interested in a patch to be included in a later version of DSpace to 
> show image thumbnails in the title browse and search results pages 
> where items are comprised of (an) image bitstream(s). I've seen 
> mention of it a couple of times and while we have done this locally, I 
> want to refactor the code we've done to make it compatible with the 
> mediafilter model of 1.2. If people are interested, post to the list 
> with any ideas/thoughts/features regarding image handling and I'll 
> start looking into a patch.
>
> Also, are people interested in the option of a larger image display to 
> be shown on the item display page? For an example of this have a look 
> at some image items on the ANU DSpace at http://dspace.anu.edu.au/. 
> While we use some (inexpensive) commercial software to do this for 
> performance reasons (ImageAlchemy http://www.handmadesw.com/), if 
> there is enough interest a version using free software such as 
> ImageMagick or the java image libraries could be an alternative 
> implementation (though the generation process is likely to be much 
> slower).
>
> Note the following:
> - Local concerns may on occasion take priority so I'll do the work in 
> stages e.g. 1) basic thumbnail viewing 2) item level images 3) 
> additional generators/greater control over images, etc. This way I can 
> added functionality incrementally fairly quickly
> - Image options will be repository wide (i.e. thumbnails will be shown 
> on a repository basis), if there is demand for per collection basis 
> that may come later
> - Where an item comprises multiple image bitstreams only the first 
> will be shown
>
> Anyhow let me know any thoughts/requirements and I'll start looking 
> into it...
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott.
>
>
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From dragone at cilea.it  Tue Aug 31 04:59:05 2004
From: dragone at cilea.it (Daniela Dragone)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:59:05 +0200
Subject: [Dspace-general] Google and single Item
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20040831104758.00aa3a00@mail.cilea.it>

Hi to all,
I've a problem with google.
Google finds the home page of my installation of DSpace 
(http://dspace-unipr.cilea.it:8080/index.jsp),
but it can't find single items, for example 
http://dspace-unipr.cilea.it:8080/handle/1889/62
If I insert, for example, the title of this item in the search bar, Google 
finds other related pages but not the page of the item in dspace.
Any idea?
Thanks in advance
Daniela



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        Dott.ssa Daniela Dragone
               dragone at cilea.it
           CILEA - www.cilea.it

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From ajh at cvt.dk  Tue Aug 31 08:31:20 2004
From: ajh at cvt.dk ((al)Fred Heller)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:31:20 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Dspace-general] Vitual collections in DSpace
Message-ID: <33422.192.38.67.218.1093955480.squirrel@ns.cvt.dk>

Dear all,

Assuming that we have a number of departments at a university with their
individual collections, e.g. Journal Article Collections.
I want to design a "virtual" collection that comprises all the Journal
Articles from all the departements.
How can I do this i DSpace?

Thank you in advance?

Fred

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Technical University of Denmark          (DTU)
  Technical Knowledge Center of Denmark  (DTV)
   Center for Knowledge Technology       (CVT)
Tel: +45 45 25 73 49
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From mr41 at cornell.edu  Tue Aug 31 08:35:33 2004
From: mr41 at cornell.edu (Marcy Rosenkrantz)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 08:35:33 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] Image Handling in DSpace
In-Reply-To: <4133D06F.6020200@anu.edu.au>
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040831083253.0385e4b0@postoffice8.mail.cornell.edu>

Scott, YES!  We had thought about doing this--a faculty member asked for 
it--but had not started on it, yet.
Marcy

  At 09:12 PM 8/30/2004, Scott Yeadon wrote:

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From margretb at MIT.EDU  Tue Aug 31 14:06:11 2004
From: margretb at MIT.EDU (Margret Branschofsky)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:06:11 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] SPARC Workshop on Institutional Repositories
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040831140203.026b3f18@po10.mit.edu>



Institutional Repositories: The Next Stage

November 18 - 19, 2004
Washington, D.C.



The Workshop:

The conference and break-out sessions will help you gain an understanding 
of strategies critical to implementing and managing the successful 
long-term growth of your Institutional Repository (IR). Experienced leaders 
and supporting players in the IR field will describe practices applicable 
to a variety of technology platforms. A special focus will be on tactics 
for working with faculty and researchers to make IRs a success.

By attending you will:
    * Learn how to populate your institutional repository.
    * Learn how to manage policy issues surrounding your digital repository.
    * Learn about authors' agreements, copyright, and other legal issues 
affecting institutional repositories.
    * Learn about IR business modeling.
    * Learn what other institutions are doing with their institutional 
repositories.
    * Learn about institutional repository technical solutions.
For more information, see http://db.arl.org/ir2004/reg/  .

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From margretb at MIT.EDU  Tue Aug 31 14:31:10 2004
From: margretb at MIT.EDU (Margret Branschofsky)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:31:10 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] URL for SPARC Workshop
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040831142934.026b3f18@po10.mit.edu>

There is a typo at the end of the url I just sent out.  Here's the correct one:

http://db.arl.org/ir2004/reg/

Sorry,

Margret

Margret Branschofsky
DSpace User Support Manager
Digital Library Research Group
Bldg. 14S-M24
(617)253-1293
margretb at mit.edu
http://dspace.mit.edu 


From scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au  Tue Aug 31 20:03:43 2004
From: scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au (Scott Yeadon)
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:03:43 +1000
Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: Policies at the community level
Message-ID: <413511DF.8080004@anu.edu.au>

Laura,

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I still think you need to explicitly add policies at the collection level as the community authorizations do not appear to be inherited for subsequently created collections.

Scott.


From david.stuve at hp.com  Tue Aug 31 20:53:15 2004
From: david.stuve at hp.com (Stuve, David H)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:53:15 -0700
Subject: [Dspace-general] RE: [Dspace-devel] Image Handling in DSpace
Message-ID: <A85BE98E3961AA4398E3E704A78F5A93016AB329@cacexc05.americas.cpqcorp.net>

Hi Scott,

I've got some suggestions for you when implementing thumbnails in search
and browses.

For thumbnail size, I'd use the parameters in dspace.cfg for
thumbnail.maxwidth and
thubmnail.maxheight.  Those two parameters define the bounding box for
thumbnails in
the item view, and you may as well use them.  If you want thumbnails in
the browse to
be a different size (which makes sense,) I'd add parameters for
browse.thumbnail.maxwidth
and height, since I can easily see a site where they want big thumbnails
for item view and
smaller ones for the browse view.  I wouldn't bother generating two sets
of thubmnails, I
would just generate the item view images and rely on HTML and the web
browser to scale
them to the search/browse size.

Searching is very simple - eventually you get a page's worth of handles
and those get
instantiated into real items to fetch the titles, authors, dates, etc.
You only have
to add the code to fetch and display the item's thumbnails.

Browsing is a bit tougher - for speed the items are never instantiated.
You'll get a page
worth of item IDs/handles, and the browse text is fetched from a
database table.  The best way
to use the thumbnails the mediafilter generates is to then instantiate
those items and fetch
their thumbnail images for display.

Good luck, and let me know if you need any more advice!

Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: dspace-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:dspace-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Scott
Yeadon
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 6:12 PM
To: dspace-general at MIT.EDU; dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net;
dspace-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Dspace-devel] Image Handling in DSpace


Hello,

I just wanted to get an idea of whether the DSpace community is 
interested in a patch to be included in a later version of DSpace to 
show image thumbnails in the title browse and search results pages where

items are comprised of (an) image bitstream(s). I've seen mention of it 
a couple of times and while we have done this locally, I want to 
refactor the code we've done to make it compatible with the mediafilter 
model of 1.2. If people are interested, post to the list with any 
ideas/thoughts/features regarding image handling and I'll start looking 
into a patch.

Also, are people interested in the option of a larger image display to 
be shown on the item display page? For an example of this have a look at

some image items on the ANU DSpace at http://dspace.anu.edu.au/. While 
we use some (inexpensive) commercial software to do this for performance

reasons (ImageAlchemy http://www.handmadesw.com/), if there is enough 
interest a version using free software such as ImageMagick or the java 
image libraries could be an alternative implementation (though the 
generation process is likely to be much slower).

Note the following:
- Local concerns may on occasion take priority so I'll do the work in 
stages e.g. 1) basic thumbnail viewing 2) item level images 3) 
additional generators/greater control over images, etc. This way I can 
added functionality incrementally fairly quickly
- Image options will be repository wide (i.e. thumbnails will be shown 
on a repository basis), if there is demand for per collection basis that

may come later
- Where an item comprises multiple image bitstreams only the first will 
be shown

Anyhow let me know any thoughts/requirements and I'll start looking into

it...

Thanks.

Scott.


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From boon.low at ed.ac.uk  Tue Aug 31 05:30:29 2004
From: boon.low at ed.ac.uk (Boon Low)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:30:29 +0100
Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: [Dspace-tech] Google and single Item
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20040831104758.00aa3a00@mail.cilea.it>
References: <5.2.0.9.0.20040831104758.00aa3a00@mail.cilea.it>
Message-ID: <65DCA752-FB30-11D8-A208-000A95D3F960@ed.ac.uk>

Hi Daniella,

This is because the item pages are generated dynamically from the 
repository. Google only indexed static pages on the web. In order for 
Google to find the items, you may either need to provide a static page 
to all the items.. e.g. providing (submit to Google) a webpage 
containing hard coded URLs for all single items pages.. I don't think 
Google is that intelligent to find the item pages via the DSpace 
front-end.. (requires automatic search of all possible items and 
indexes!).

Boon


-----
Boon Low
Digital Library Division
Edinburgh University Library
http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/boon


On 31 Aug 2004, at 09:59, Daniela Dragone wrote:

>  Hi to all,
>  I've a problem with google.
>  Google finds the home page of my installation of DSpace 
> (http://dspace-unipr.cilea.it:8080/index.jsp),
>  but it can't find single items, for example 
> http://dspace-unipr.cilea.it:8080/handle/1889/62
>  If I insert, for example, the title of this item in the search bar, 
> Google finds other related pages but not the page of the item in 
> dspace.
>  Any idea?
>  Thanks in advance
>  Daniela
>
>
>
>
> *********************************************************
>
> ?????? Dott.ssa Daniela Dragone
>  ????????????? dragone at cilea.it
>  ????????? CILEA - www.cilea.it
>
> *********************************************************
>
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From Nelson_R at cde.state.co.us  Mon Aug 30 16:18:12 2004
From: Nelson_R at cde.state.co.us (Nelson, Rose)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:18:12 -0600
Subject: [Dspace-general] Call for Presenters for upcoming ETIG Program
Message-ID: <FD1D4987246F814794CC52DBD0EBC96D03B902D5@ENTERPRISE.cde.state.co.us>

Hello, my name is Rose Nelson and I am the Chair-Elect for the LITA
Emerging Technologies Interest Group. I am responsible for developing a
program for the annual ALA conference in 2005. After going to the Top
Tech Trends session at ALA 2004 and thinking about technologies on the
horizon, I thought it would be interesting to plan a program on digital
respositories. I'm hoping that some of you can either put me in contact
with potential presenters, or that you would be willing to present at
the program. 

The program that I am proposing will look at a couple of different
digital repositories and draw some comparisons and differences among
them. The topics that I was planning to cover include definition of a
digital repository, type of software that is used, digital objects that
might be found in a repository, issues surrounding access and retrieval,
and policies. This might be too much to cover in one session, but I
figure I can narrow it down once I talk to the experts on this topic.
I'm also not glued to any particular topic listed above, but wanted to
gather some ideas to get started. 

I would like for the program to be of interest to academic and public
libraries so I am also planning to get a speaker to talk about
WebJunction a new online community for libraries--primarily public
libraries are using the national WebJunction Community-- where they have
access to resources that have been created for and by library staff
throughout the country. (http://www.webjunction.org). WebJunction is
also a repository of online learning and message board forums. It's
quite different in content than traditional repositories, but I think
some of the same concepts may apply --creating policies, digital rights
management, standards, etc. 

I am wondering if you, or someone on your team will be attending ALA
2005 and would be intersted in being on a panel of speakers that
discusses digital repositories. If this is something that you or your
staff cannot engage in, is there someone you would recommend I contact
that could possibly be a presenter on this topic? I would like to start
pulling together a list of speakers. Thanks for your consideration.


Sincerely, 

Rose

Rose Nelson
Technology Consultant
Colorado State Library
Coloradao Department of Education
303-866-6946 (phone)
303-866-6940 (fax)


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