From tdm27 at cam.ac.uk  Wed Dec  1 11:51:23 2004
From: tdm27 at cam.ac.uk (Tom De Mulder)
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:51:23 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace Scoop
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411091208370.20789@marauder.csi.cam.ac.uk>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411091208370.20789@marauder.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0412011650230.9923@marauder.csi.cam.ac.uk>


After getting a lot of replies from various people, we've decided to shut
down the DSpace Scoop website (for now). It was felt that information
about DSpace is already spread out across many information sources, and
that it wasn't worth keeping yet another one running.


--
Tom De Mulder <tdm27 at cam.ac.uk> - Cambridge University Computing Service
                   New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH
-> 01/12/2004 : The Moon is Waning Gibbous (80% of Full)

From kenzie at MIT.EDU  Wed Dec  1 12:05:28 2004
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 12:05:28 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Google Scholar inclusion of DSpace
  repositories
In-Reply-To: <41AD3A47.2090006@adelaide.edu.au>
References: <5.2.1.1.2.20041128152714.01f006a8@hesiod>
 <5.2.1.1.2.20041128152714.01f006a8@hesiod>
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20041201115603.021cf000@hesiod>

Thanks for the reminder about the Google "site:" limiter, Steve, that's 
very handy.
And a colleague here reminded me that you can further limit the search to 
your production
DSpace server (e.g. "site:dspace.mit.edu") if you want to see just results 
from DSpace
and not the entire campus... helpful in figuring out how far behind they 
are in harvesting
(answer: very).

MacKenzie

At 01:58 PM 12/1/2004 +1030, Steve Thomas wrote:
>MacKenzie Smith wrote:
>
>>...
>>It can be a little tricky to figure out if you're institution is getting 
>>included or not
>
>Actually, you can simple incude "site:youruni.edu" as a search term to 
>limit results to just your institution (or part thereof). Among other 
>things, this usefully reveals something of the extent of self-archiving at 
>your university.
>
>In our case, the result was interestingly low -- around 1330 items. (We 
>don't yet have an IR.) No-one seems to know exactly what criteria Google 
>are using for inclusion, but I suspect they are using citation as one of 
>their major criteria -- after indexing known sites (such as PubMed) they 
>are then spidering from citations so far included. This might explain 
>their inclusion of multiple versions of the same article from different 
>sites, and might be the basis of their "Cited by" counts.
>
>If anyone knows more, I'm all ears.
>
>Steve
>
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From wsimpson at udel.edu  Thu Dec  2 20:36:37 2004
From: wsimpson at udel.edu (William Simpson)
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:36:37 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] sorting and diacritical marks in author names
Message-ID: <41AFC325.4070100@udel.edu>

Having a problem with the way DSpace is sorting author names involving diacritical marks.
Someone else posted a question about diacritical marks to the list in April '04, and received
an answer about the database being "unicode enabled."  Two questions: Is that the reason the author sorting isn't
working for us at the University of Delaware?  Can the metadata fields be edited to fix the author
sorting problem?  Thanks.

William Simpson
University of Delaware 

For example, the name O'Malley returns a sort in DSpace (using Netscape Navigator browser)
that looks like this:



    Items for Author O???Malley, Fran in All of DSpace

Return to Browse by Author 
<http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/browse-author?starts_with=O%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99Malley%2C+Fran> 

Sort by Title 
<http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/items-by-author?author=O%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99Malley%2C+Fran&order=title> 
	Sorting by Date

Showing 0 items.

Date of Issue 	Title 	Authors

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From kenzie at MIT.EDU  Thu Dec  2 21:32:13 2004
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:32:13 -0500
Subject: Fwd: [Dspace-general] sorting and diacritical marks in author
  names
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From brennerm at pdx.edu  Fri Dec  3 17:16:13 2004
From: brennerm at pdx.edu (Michaela Brenner)
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 14:16:13 -0800
Subject: [Dspace-general] moving collections
In-Reply-To: <41AD3A47.2090006@adelaide.edu.au>
References: <5.2.1.1.2.20041128152714.01f006a8@hesiod>
	<41AD3A47.2090006@adelaide.edu.au>
Message-ID: <41B0E5AD.8090809@pdx.edu>

Hi!

We have just started adding documents to a DSpace project. The question 
came up if it's possible to "move" collections from one community to 
another. We'd appreciate any help on this. Thanks.

Michaela

-- 

Michaela M. Brenner
Cataloging and Database Management Librarian
Portland State University
503.725.5778

 

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From tull.9 at osu.edu  Mon Dec  6 10:26:26 2004
From: tull.9 at osu.edu (Laura Tull)
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:26:26 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Any limits to number of collections per community?
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20041206080642.0212bcd8@pop.service.ohio-state.edu>

Is there a limit to the number of collections per community?

Is there a limit to the number of characters in the introduction section of 
the collection home page?

I'm experimenting with putting a journal into DSpace using name of the 
journal as community and volume and issue for each collection. I'm using 
the introduction area on the collection home page to mimic the look of 
OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center: 
https://linux02.it.ohio-state.edu/dspace/handle/1811/189 (this is on our 
development server). We have metadata that we plan to map to Dublin Core 
and then hopefully map some fields to HTML to obtain the OhioLINK EJC look.

Knowing the limits will help me decide if we can actually have one issue 
per collection or if I need to go to one volume per collection. This 
journal has over 400 issues.


***********************************
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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
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From mr41 at cornell.edu  Mon Dec  6 14:11:43 2004
From: mr41 at cornell.edu (Marcy Rosenkrantz)
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:11:43 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace thumbnail display
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20041206140509.05a7cd00@postoffice8.mail.cornell.edu>

Hi,
Has anyone developed a 'light table' display of the images 
in  DSpace?  This would be different from the thumbnail next to the object 
title that we can display now.  What we have in mind is an array of 
thumbnails returned from a search with a short title of that image 
itself.  Similarly browse images would show all the images in such an array 
of thumbnails.  (Think of the icon display on your desktop--with thumbnails 
instead of icons)  We are being asked if we can develop such a capability 
and are wondering if this is being done or contemplated anyplace else.
Thanks.
Marcy



From simon.mackey at o2.ie  Mon Dec  6 11:59:59 2004
From: simon.mackey at o2.ie (Simon Mackey)
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:59:59 -0000
Subject: [Dspace-general] Does a custom document lifecycle feature exist in
	dspace?
Message-ID: <200412061914.iB6JEDZm023822@fort-point-station.mit.edu>

Hi there,
I've been having a look through the mailing list archives to see if anyone
has come up with a customisation that would allow custom document lifecycles
to be defined in dspace. At the moment, it seems that it's a hard-coded
lifecycle (is this correct?) as far as I can tell. I saw on this post
(http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9812758) that
apparently "there's lots of discussion about work various people have done
to edit the workflow and the issues they've faced", but I can't seem to find
any. Also, are we talking about the same thing when I say 'document
lifecycle' and others say 'workflow'?

So, I just thought I'd ask the mailing list if anyone has in fact
implemented dspace with a fully customisable document lifecycle
module/add-on? I understand, from a dspace admin that I talked to, that
dspace is only really meant to be a digital library and not a collaborative
environment (which is what I'm looking for). We want our users to be able to
collaborate on documents from start (initial ideas) to finish (final
publication), and all the stages inbetween that are different for each
person, hence the need for custom lifecycles. Maybe I'm in the wrong place
for that and the dspace vision doesn't include that?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Many thanks,
simon


From clement at nus.edu.sg  Mon Dec  6 21:17:38 2004
From: clement at nus.edu.sg (Clement Choo)
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:17:38 +0800
Subject: [Dspace-general] How to get Google to index my DSpace site
Message-ID: <A6ED8594B4C12145AEA764FD2FA0B887695D19@MBOX02.stf.nus.edu.sg>

Dear all,

	I would like to have Google to index my DSpace site so that it
is searchable from Google but I don't know to go about getting it done.
Can anyone please help me?



Thank you.
Clement Choo


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From kenzie at MIT.EDU  Mon Dec  6 21:45:17 2004
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 21:45:17 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] How to get Google to index my DSpace site
In-Reply-To: <A6ED8594B4C12145AEA764FD2FA0B887695D19@MBOX02.stf.nus.edu.
 sg>
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From lfeng79 at gmail.com  Tue Dec  7 02:45:42 2004
From: lfeng79 at gmail.com (Louis Feng)
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 23:45:42 -0800
Subject: [Dspace-general] Problems with dspace-oai 1.2 in dspace 1.1
In-Reply-To: <e6aa3d7704120523032a266906@mail.gmail.com>
References: <e6aa3d7704120523032a266906@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <e6aa3d77041206234575037027@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,
We have been developing on dspace 1.1  and needs to use the dspace OAI
provider to work with NSDL. I didn't see an option to build dspace-oai
in the build.xml file of dspace 1.1. I downloaded dspace 1.2 and was
able to build the dspace-oai.war file. However I could not get it
working with our dspace 1.1 installation. Tomcat would not start if I
put it in the web-app directory.

To eliminate some possible problems, I wonder if anyone knows whether
dspace-oai in version 1.2 is compatible with version 1.1? If not does
dspace 1.1 include dspace-oai, and how can I compile/build it? Do we
have to upgrade to 1.2 to use the OAI feature? Thanks for your help!

Regards,
Louis

From kenzie at MIT.EDU  Tue Dec  7 05:22:38 2004
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 05:22:38 -0500
Subject: Fwd: [Dspace-general] Problems with dspace-oai 1.2 in dspace
  1.1
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20041207052112.01fd44e0@hesiod>

Louis,

I'm forwarding your question to the dspace-tech list, where you might get 
an answer...

MacKenzie

>Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 23:45:42 -0800
>From: Louis Feng <lfeng79 at gmail.com>
>To: dspace-general at mit.edu
>Subject: [Dspace-general] Problems with dspace-oai 1.2 in dspace 1.1
>Reply-To: Louis Feng <lfeng79 at gmail.com>
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>
>Hi,
>We have been developing on dspace 1.1  and needs to use the dspace OAI
>provider to work with NSDL. I didn't see an option to build dspace-oai
>in the build.xml file of dspace 1.1. I downloaded dspace 1.2 and was
>able to build the dspace-oai.war file. However I could not get it
>working with our dspace 1.1 installation. Tomcat would not start if I
>put it in the web-app directory.
>
>To eliminate some possible problems, I wonder if anyone knows whether
>dspace-oai in version 1.2 is compatible with version 1.1? If not does
>dspace 1.1 include dspace-oai, and how can I compile/build it? Do we
>have to upgrade to 1.2 to use the OAI feature? Thanks for your help!
>
>Regards,
>Louis
>_______________________________________________
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>Dspace-general at mit.edu
>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general

MacKenzie Smith
Associate Director for Technology
MIT Libraries
Building E25-131d
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139
(617)253-8184
kenzie at mit.edu 


From john.preston at uwimona.edu.jm  Tue Dec  7 12:29:08 2004
From: john.preston at uwimona.edu.jm (John Preston)
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 12:29:08 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Using DSpace to store URI
Message-ID: <1102440549.4299.44.camel@jgrass>

Hello, Can anyone tell me how I can use DSpace to store URI, I have a
number of servlets that I wish to store within DSpace so they can be
searched on, then  when the user finds them, they go to the site.


-- 
John Preston                                    Tel: (876) 927-1777
International Centre for Environmental          Fax: (876) 977-9768
and Nuclear Sciences
University of the West Indies, Mona Campus,
Mona Road, Kingston 7, JAMAICA. Email: john.preston at uwimona.edu.jm


From scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au  Tue Dec  7 20:16:13 2004
From: scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au (Scott Yeadon)
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:16:13 +1100
Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: DSpace thumbnail display
Message-ID: <41B655DD.3000703@anu.edu.au>

Hi Marcy,

Initially I was looking at doing something similar for multi-image bundles and as an alternate browse (specifically for image collections), however I didn't manage to get around to it since I associated this sort of feature with configurable interfaces  - something we (i.e. ANU) thought would be better pursued as part of v2.0. It's certainly possible, and a quick way to achieve this may be to stick a filter servlet above the normal browse servlet to take the browse results and reformat them - just separate the browse servlet away from the browse JSP then you have a better separation of the information retrieved and the way it's displayed.

Scott.

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:11:43 -0500
From: Marcy Rosenkrantz <mr41 at cornell.edu>
To: dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace thumbnail display
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Hi,
Has anyone developed a 'light table' display of the images 
in  DSpace?  This would be different from the thumbnail next to the object 
title that we can display now.  What we have in mind is an array of 
thumbnails returned from a search with a short title of that image 
itself.  Similarly browse images would show all the images in such an array 
of thumbnails.  (Think of the icon display on your desktop--with thumbnails 
instead of icons)  We are being asked if we can develop such a capability 
and are wondering if this is being done or contemplated anyplace else.
Thanks.
Marcy


------------------------------


From kenzie at MIT.EDU  Tue Dec  7 22:22:32 2004
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:22:32 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Any limits to number of collections per
  community?
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20041206080642.0212bcd8@pop.service.ohio-state.e
 du>
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20041207222037.0119fea0@hesiod>

Laura,

>Is there a limit to the number of collections per community?

None in theory.

>Is there a limit to the number of characters in the introduction section 
>of the collection home page?

This is bounded by the database you're using, and how large a field can be. 
Pretty big, but not infinite.
Ask your programmer for details.

>I'm experimenting with putting a journal into DSpace using name of the 
>journal as community and volume and issue for each collection. I'm using 
>the introduction area on the collection home page to mimic the look of 
>OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center: 
>https://linux02.it.ohio-state.edu/dspace/handle/1811/189 (this is on our 
>development server). We have metadata that we plan to map to Dublin Core 
>and then hopefully map some fields to HTML to obtain the OhioLINK EJC look.
>
>Knowing the limits will help me decide if we can actually have one issue 
>per collection or if I need to go to one volume per collection. This 
>journal has over 400 issues.

This should work, but the devil is in the details so you'll find out when 
you try...

Best,

MacKenzie



MacKenzie Smith
Associate Director for Technology
MIT Libraries
Building E25-131d
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139
(617)253-8184
kenzie at mit.edu 


From kenzie at MIT.EDU  Tue Dec  7 22:24:19 2004
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:24:19 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] moving collections
In-Reply-To: <41B0E5AD.8090809@pdx.edu>
References: <41AD3A47.2090006@adelaide.edu.au>
 <5.2.1.1.2.20041128152714.01f006a8@hesiod>
 <41AD3A47.2090006@adelaide.edu.au>
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20041207222243.0217daa0@hesiod>

Hi Michaela,

The DSpace administration UI doesn't currently support this operation, but 
collection "ownership" is stored
in the underlying database tables so it would be possible to do this with 
some programming (mainly SQL)
by the system administrator.

MacKenzie

At 02:16 PM 12/3/2004 -0800, Michaela Brenner wrote:
>Hi!
>
>We have just started adding documents to a DSpace project. The question 
>came up if it's possible to "move" collections from one community to 
>another. We'd appreciate any help on this. Thanks.
>
>Michaela
>
>--
>
>Michaela M. Brenner
>Cataloging and Database Management Librarian
>Portland State University
>503.725.5778
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>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 E25-131d
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139
(617)253-8184
kenzie at mit.edu 


From kenzie at MIT.EDU  Wed Dec  8 04:04:31 2004
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 04:04:31 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Does a custom document lifecycle feature
  exist in dspace?
In-Reply-To: <200412061914.iB6JEDZm023822@fort-point-station.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20041208035500.011b6fe0@hesiod>

Hi Simon,

Discussions of workflow in the context of DSpace relate to the steps 
involved in depositing an item
(e.g. provide content + metadata, check the metadata for accuracy or add 
more of it, check the quality
of the content, check the accuracy of the content from a 
technical/preservation perspective, maybe
do some normalization of the content, etc.) Different institutions, and 
different communities within
institutions, make very different choices about these steps and need to 
configure the system
differently to support them.

When I think about document lifecycles I'm usually thinking of the entire 
life of the document,
from creation, to deposit in DSpace, to management over time (e.g. 
preservation format
migrations), to destruction in those cases where that is necessary. So the 
DSpace workflow
is not that, and there isn't really much in DSpace now that handles 
lifecycle management as
I've just defined it -- there will be more management and preservation 
tools as time goes by,
and maybe eventually some records management tools (including destructors), 
but no one
has really had the need to implement any of that yet.

I hope that answers your question, and if you had something different in 
mind for document
lifecycles please feel free to amplify (and if you have any use cases or 
other requirements for
lifecycle events I'd love to see them).

MacKenzie

At 04:59 PM 12/6/2004 +0000, Simon Mackey wrote:
>Hi there,
>I've been having a look through the mailing list archives to see if anyone
>has come up with a customisation that would allow custom document lifecycles
>to be defined in dspace. At the moment, it seems that it's a hard-coded
>lifecycle (is this correct?) as far as I can tell. I saw on this post
>(http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9812758) that
>apparently "there's lots of discussion about work various people have done
>to edit the workflow and the issues they've faced", but I can't seem to find
>any. Also, are we talking about the same thing when I say 'document
>lifecycle' and others say 'workflow'?
>
>So, I just thought I'd ask the mailing list if anyone has in fact
>implemented dspace with a fully customisable document lifecycle
>module/add-on? I understand, from a dspace admin that I talked to, that
>dspace is only really meant to be a digital library and not a collaborative
>environment (which is what I'm looking for). We want our users to be able to
>collaborate on documents from start (initial ideas) to finish (final
>publication), and all the stages inbetween that are different for each
>person, hence the need for custom lifecycles. Maybe I'm in the wrong place
>for that and the dspace vision doesn't include that?
>
>I look forward to hearing from you.
>
>Many thanks,
>simon
>
>_______________________________________________
>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 E25-131d
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139
(617)253-8184
kenzie at mit.edu 


From scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au  Wed Dec  8 17:25:30 2004
From: scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au (Scott Yeadon)
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 09:25:30 +1100
Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: Using DSpace to store URI
Message-ID: <41B77F5A.6010302@anu.edu.au>

John,

You may be better off having an index at the collection level with 
hyperlinks to all the servlets URIs, this would be easier to maintain, 
and is separated from the DSpace object itself and doesn't need any 
specific handling code. It means the user has to go the the collection 
to find the list and navigate to the servlet, but that may be a minor 
disadvantage.

If you store the URI as an item of metadata (e.g. location), you might 
not render a link (since you need to know the object is one which you 
want to render a link for or make a proprietary metadata field to store 
this in order to render it differently) and simply add text to the 
collection page that lets users know that copying the URI into their 
browser will take them to the site if available.Note if you store URIs, 
it adds a bit of maintenance overhead whenever the location changes.

If you want the user to click on the title in the browse window to be 
taken to the site, then you'll have cater for this behaviour as a 
special case. This probably isn't a good idea since it reduces the 
generic nature of the object handling - even if you handled all servlets 
in the repository the same way you would need to cater for servlets 
which no longer or never had a site, any special access for internal 
servlets, etc. If you do want to have specific behaviours fro particular 
objects, then it is worth thinking about doing this within a generic 
framework otherwise you'll probbaly find yourself battling with various 
hacks as your repository grows and many more "special cases"  emerge.

Scott.

Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 12:29:08 -0500
From: John Preston <john.preston at uwimona.edu.jm>
To: dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: [Dspace-general] Using DSpace to store URI
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Hello, Can anyone tell me how I can use DSpace to store URI, I have a
number of servlets that I wish to store within DSpace so they can be
searched on, then  when the user finds them, they go to the site.



-- 
John Preston                                    Tel: (876) 927-1777
International Centre for Environmental          Fax: (876) 977-9768
and Nuclear Sciences
University of the West Indies, Mona Campus,
Mona Road, Kingston 7, JAMAICA. Email: john.preston at uwimona.edu.jm



From scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au  Wed Dec  8 17:31:09 2004
From: scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au (Scott Yeadon)
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 09:31:09 +1100
Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: moving collections
Message-ID: <41B780AD.9020509@anu.edu.au>

Michaela,

Check out previous post at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9821492

Scott.


Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:24:19 -0500
From: MacKenzie Smith <kenzie at MIT.EDU>
To: Michaela Brenner <brennerm at pdx.edu>, dspace-general at MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] moving collections
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 <5.2.1.1.2.20041128152714.01f006a8 at hesiod>
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Hi Michaela,

The DSpace administration UI doesn't currently support this operation, but 
collection "ownership" is stored
in the underlying database tables so it would be possible to do this with 
some programming (mainly SQL)
by the system administrator.

MacKenzie

At 02:16 PM 12/3/2004 -0800, Michaela Brenner wrote:

>>Hi!
>>
>>We have just started adding documents to a DSpace project. The question 
>>came up if it's possible to "move" collections from one community to 
>>another. We'd appreciate any help on this. Thanks.
>>
>>Michaela
>>
>>--
>>
>>Michaela M. Brenner
>>Cataloging and Database Management Librarian
>>Portland State University
>>503.725.5778
>>
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>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 E25-131d
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139
(617)253-8184
kenzie at mit.edu


From r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk  Wed Dec 15 09:53:59 2004
From: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk (Richard Jones)
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:53:59 -0000
Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace System Admin Guide
Message-ID: <508407BF97D36847BA46669CCFC09D8C18784A@quicksilver.ucs.ed.ac.uk>

Hi All,

For some months now we have been running our institutional repository
(primarily E-Prints and E-Theses) here at Edinburgh University Library
using DSpace and some software that we developed ourselves called Tapir.
Alongside this we have developed some fairly extensive administration
documentation which reflect our usage and policies with regard to the
system (as well as acting as a certain degree of DSpace documentation in
general).  We thought that perhaps this documentation, although quite
specific to Edinburgh University Library, may be of use or interest to
the people subscribed to these lists and have therefore made it
available on our project website:

http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/archive/ERA1.0AdminGuide.pdf

As usual, if you look at:

http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/dsp_archive.shtml

you will find versions of this document in both MS Word and HTML formats
also.

Hope this is of interest,

Richard
-------
Richard Jones
Information Systems Developer  + A crash reduces
Edinburgh University Library   + your expensive computer
Information Systems            + to a simple stone

e: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk
t: 0131 651 3811

Edinburgh Research Archive: http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/
Tapir on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tapir-eul
Theses Alive! homepage: http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/


From susan.parham at library.gatech.edu  Mon Dec 20 16:12:52 2004
From: susan.parham at library.gatech.edu (Susan Wells Parham)
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:12:52 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] "Thesis advisor" metadata
In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20040706123308.033c28f8@po10.mit.edu>
References: <s0e40fb6.056@mail.lib.rochester.edu>
 <5.2.1.1.2.20040706123308.033c28f8@po10.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20041220155934.022bf3b0@pop.mail.gatech.edu>


I'd like to awaken this topic from this past summer.   We are in the 
beginning stages of batch loading our ETDs, having developed our crosswalk 
and also creating two new elements.  I would like to hear how others out 
there are doing this. As in the message quoted below, our users wanted to 
search by advisor and department, so we created similar fields of 
thesis.department and thesis.advisor.  We will change the search index to 
include a field of thesis -- here end users will be able to search 
department & advisor.




At 11:43 AM 7/6/2004, Margret Branschofsky wrote:
>Hi Suzanne,
>
>MIT is planning to implement theses in DSpace later this summer.  We plan 
>to add thesis.advisor to the DC registry and then index it separately as a 
>fielded search in advanced search so that it can be searched separately 
>from author.  Data from our existing e-thesis implementation shows that 
>users have asked for the ability to search by advisor and also by 
>degree-granting department, which we will also add to our registry and 
>index separately.  When we have the final version of our thesis metadata 
>ready I'd be glad to send it to the list. By the way, this change will not 
>be made to the open source distribution of the code.
>
>Margret Branschofsky
>
>
>At 01:20 PM 7/1/2004 -0400, Suzanne Bell wrote:
>>Hello DSpace folks-
>>
>>  We're beginning to get into adding some theses to DSpace, and I'm a
>>bit stalled over how best to (or if to) include the thesis advisor
>>information.
>>I know there's a metadata element called "contributor.advisor" - meant
>>for this information (yes?) - but when you use that, in the simple
>>display, the advisor name appears with the author's name, there's no
>>distinction. It looks like they are both authors, and this- um, well, I
>>just don't like it. (If I were the thesis author and saw this, I think
>>I'd feel upset!) If you look at the full detailed display, yes, they are
>>distinguished (contributor.author, contributor.advisor).
>>
>>  So I was looking at how some other sites handled this - Cornell has
>>put this info in the "Description" field, which would work for me;
>>Drexel notes the type is "thesis" but doesn't include the advisor name
>>information (which is fine too).
>>
>>  Just wondered what other peoples' thoughts were on this.
>>  Many thanks!
>>  cheers,
>>   Suzanne
>>
>>*******************************************
>>Suzanne Bell, Economics/Data Librarian
>>DSpace Projects Coordinator
>>University of Rochester
>>585/275-9317
>>sbell at library.rochester.edu
>>_______________________________________________
>>Dspace-general mailing list
>>Dspace-general at mit.edu
>>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
>
>Margret Branschofsky
>DSpace User Support Manager
>Digital Library Research Group
>Bldg. 14S-M24
>(617)253-1293
>margretb at mit.edu
>http://dspace.mit.edu
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From kilduff at wrlc.org  Wed Dec 22 10:12:57 2004
From: kilduff at wrlc.org (Katherine Kilduff)
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:12:57 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Custom Submission Screens
In-Reply-To: <342AEDFE-26AC-11D9-8FCB-000D93AD1DF0@mit.edu>
References: <1098717180.417d17fc0a763@webmail.ksu.edu>
	<342AEDFE-26AC-11D9-8FCB-000D93AD1DF0@mit.edu>
Message-ID: <41C98EF9.5000707@wrlc.org>

Has any progress been made on the patch (to customize user submission 
screens) that is mentioned below?  Is this patch contained in the latest 
beta version of dspace1.2.1beta3?  If it is contained in the latest beta 
version, is there any documentation on the new feature?

Thanks in advance for any information you can provide.

Katherine Kilduff
Washington Research Library Consortium
901 Commerce Drive
Upper Marlboro, Maryland  20774
(301) 390-2035
Fax: (301) 390-2020


William Reilly wrote:

> On Oct 25, 2004, at 11:13 AM, courtois at ksu.edu wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to create custom user submission screens for specific
>> Communities or Collections?
>> ...
>> One change, for
>> example, would be to remove the "Series/Report" field from the 2nd
>> "Describe" screen.  Another change would be to add a pull-down menu of
>> UMI subject categories to the 3rd "Describe" screen.  We'd like for
>> these changes to apply only to an ETD Community/Collection and may have
>> different changes to apply to other Communities/Collections.
>>
>> ...I just need to get a
>> general idea if this sort of thing is possible or if the submission
>> screens need to be consistent across all Communities and Collections.
>>
>
> Hi Marty,
>
> (I don't know if there's been any response on dspace-theses)
>
> You're looking for something many have requested before.  To date, 
> yes, out-of-the-box, the submission screens have had to be consistent 
> across all Communities and Collections. The good news is that a 
> configurable solution is nearing readiness as a test patch.
>
> When the patch is applied to the current DSpace release, you will find 
> you may edit an XML configuration file (input-forms.xml) to define 
> collection-specific custom submission screens.  Your changes take 
> effect on restart of Tomcat.
>
> We are looking to expedite testing with some adopters of an earlier 
> variant on this, and to provide the lists more information on the 
> patch's release before long.
>
> Best,
> William Reilly
> Technical Analyst
> Digital Library Research Group
> MIT Libraries
> Project Manager, CWSpace: http://cwspace.mit.edu
> Archiving MIT's OpenCourseWare in DSpace
>
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From kenzie at MIT.EDU  Thu Dec 23 13:46:55 2004
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:46:55 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Fwd: [dspace-ERM] OpenReader
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20041223134420.011dfca8@hesiod>

Of possible interest: a new initiative to build an open source, open 
standards page-layout
format and reader (ala PDF and Acrobat).

>From: RICKBARRY at aol.com
>Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 00:15:09 EST
>To: dspace-erm at mit.edu
>Subject: [dspace-ERM] OpenReader
>
>Dear MacKenzie and other colleagues:
>
>As I know that long-term access to digital documents, including electronic 
>records, is a subject of great interest to members of this list, as 
>reflected in postings on native format issues last month, I wanted to make 
>mention on this list of the OpenReader Consortium Project, of which I am 
>one of the founders. The project is aimed at developing an open source, 
>multi-media reader that can be used to gain long-term access and 
>readability for digital books, newspapers, and other documents and digital 
>objects. It will support multiple hardware and OS platforms. With the 
>intelligent use of the XML family of technologies, OpenReader will assure 
>the highest level of typographic presentation and the graceful reflow of 
>content for the full range of hardware types and reader settings. In 
>addition, the OpenReader System will satisfy the most rigorous 
>accessibility requirements. The growing volume of documentation in 
>proprietary formats was referred to by David Rothman, in his 
><http://www.teleread.org/blog>TeleRead blog, as the "Tower of eBabel."
>
>I hope that members of this list who are interested in this issue will 
>visit <http://www.openreader.org>www.openreader.org and/or contact me for 
>further functional, technical or partnership information on this project.
>
>Regards,
>
>Rick
>
>Rick Barry
><http://www.mybestdocs.com>www.mybestdocs.com
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MacKenzie Smith
Associate Director for Technology
MIT Libraries
Building E25-131d
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139
(617)253-8184
kenzie at mit.edu