From r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk Tue Mar 2 10:39:46 2004
From: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk (Richard Jones)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:39:46 -0000
Subject: [Dspace-general] EUL-DSpace v0.2.1 Released
Message-ID: <003201c4006c$976a2380$5192d781@lib.ed.ac.uk>
Hi All,
In time for the DSpace User Group Meeting next week, we have finished up
v0.2.1 of the EUL-DSpace Add-On. It is available for download, along with
all the information about it, at:
http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/dsp_home.shtml
This latest version comes with a few bug fixes and a significant upgrade of
the "Thesis or Dissertation" submission system, as well as some general
refinements to the page flow in some areas. Comments, as always, are very
welcome. I will be demoing the system as it stands at the moment at next
week's meeting, and if anyone wants to talk to me about it in person please
feel free to collar me there.
Cheers
Richard
==============================
Richard Jones
Systems Developer
Theses Alive! - www.thesesalive.ac.uk
Edinburgh University Library
r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk
0131 651 1611
From tull.9 at osu.edu Tue Mar 2 16:31:33 2004
From: tull.9 at osu.edu (Laura Tull)
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:31:33 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Workflow question
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20040302161535.00b92d68@pop.service.ohio-state.edu>
I have a collection set up, where a student submits the item and there is
one workflow for her supervisor to review the item and commit to archive.
The supervisor is the only person involved in the workflow process. She
needs to be able to do all 3 workflows: accept/reject items, edit the
metadata and commit to archive.
If I assign workflow 3 to her, she can only edit the metadata and commit to
archive. I hate to force her to go through 2 workflows so that she has
the ability to accept/reject an item.
Is there something I'm not seeing or am I asking for a feature request for
cases where one person is the only reviewer and needs to do all 3 steps in
one workflow.
***********************************
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 margretb at MIT.EDU Tue Mar 2 17:40:21 2004
From: margretb at MIT.EDU (Margret Branschofsky)
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:40:21 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Workflow question
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20040302161535.00b92d68@pop.service.ohio-state.e
du>
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040302173634.030cd660@po10.mit.edu>
Hi Laura,
Workflow step 2 does all those things. That's the role that most of our
collections have chosen.
But I agree that it would be nice to have more flexibility in the workflow
roles, and being able to have them come in different orders.
Did you ever get an answer to your last question? I seem to remember
forwarding it to someone, but my memory is a bit hazy.
Are you going to attend the DSpace User meeting?
Margret
At 04:31 PM 3/2/2004 -0500, Laura Tull wrote:
>I have a collection set up, where a student submits the item and there is
>one workflow for her supervisor to review the item and commit to archive.
>
>The supervisor is the only person involved in the workflow process. She
>needs to be able to do all 3 workflows: accept/reject items, edit the
>metadata and commit to archive.
>
>If I assign workflow 3 to her, she can only edit the metadata and commit
>to archive. I hate to force her to go through 2 workflows so that she
>has the ability to accept/reject an item.
>
>Is there something I'm not seeing or am I asking for a feature request for
>cases where one person is the only reviewer and needs to do all 3 steps in
>one workflow.
>
>
>***********************************
>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
>***********************************
>
>_______________________________________________
>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 michael at wellnessrendezvous.com Tue Mar 9 18:01:31 2004
From: michael at wellnessrendezvous.com (michael@wellnessrendezvous.com)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:01:31 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [Dspace-general] can i be a beta tester?
Message-ID: <50427.32.97.110.142.1078873291.squirrel@www.wellnessrendezvous.com>
I would like to use DSpace for my business's growing collection of audio
recordings of poetry, recorded by children and their grandparents. But I
don't have the time or the resources to host a DSpace installation.
Does anyone have space on their server for this project?
Thanks,
Mike Johnson
michael at wellnessrendezvous.com
From bialangiano at yahoo.com.br Thu Mar 11 09:47:49 2004
From: bialangiano at yahoo.com.br (=?iso-8859-1?q?Beatriz=20Langiano?=)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:47:49 -0300 (ART)
Subject: [Dspace-general] Handle Server
Message-ID: <20040311144749.2822.qmail@web60901.mail.yahoo.com>
Hi,
I'm configuring the Handle Server and I placed in
config.dct the option:
"storage_class" = "org.dspace.handle.HandlePlugin"
But, when I run the server, I received the error:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:org.dspace.handle.HandlePlugin
Somebody does say me what's the problem?
Do I need to set some variable?
Thanks, Beatriz
______________________________________________________________________
Yahoo! Mail - O melhor e-mail do Brasil! Abra sua conta agora:
http://br.yahoo.com/info/mail.html
From deridder at aztec.lib.utk.edu Fri Mar 12 14:13:12 2004
From: deridder at aztec.lib.utk.edu (Jody DeRidder)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:13:12 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Dspace-general] OAI compliance?
Message-ID: <1557.160.36.192.134.1079118792.squirrel@kiva.lib.utk.edu>
Do you have dspace up as an OAI repository? I was wondering how it
tested out. I ran across a couple of old messages online that said it
wasn't OAI compliant, and am wondering if the issues have been
resolved:
http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-general/2003-February/000257.html
(creator in contributor field)
Fran?ois Schiettecatte posted 14 Feb 2003 to [OAI-general] listserv
http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-general/2003-February/000239.html
DSpace isn't as of 2003/02/06 OAI compliant
"Repo-Explorer & Celestial both fail to harvest. When implementing
any XML application input should be checked for bad chars (no
control characters, and any >128 characters should be checked
against the Unicode character set)."
(Tim Brody, posted 6 Feburary 2003 to [OAI-general] listserv)
--jody
--
Jody DeRidder
IT Administrator II
Digital Library Center
648A John C. Hodges Library
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
Phone: (865) 974-4796
Email: deridder at aztec.lib.utk.edu
From kpetsche at iupui.edu Fri Mar 12 17:02:34 2004
From: kpetsche at iupui.edu (Petsche, Kevin F)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:02:34 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Questions Regarding Structure of DSpace
Message-ID: <37EECABFDCD02B47A114618423A57FAD0113774A@iu-mssg-mbx03.exchange.iu.edu>
Good day!
Our implementation of DSpace is currently in beta testing here at IUPUI
(http://dspace.iupui.edu ) and we are getting
a great response from some areas of the campus interested in placing
material in the repository.
But I am concerned that I am not setting-up some of these communities
and collections in the best manner.
Let me explain:
A few units on campus are wishing to place conference proceedings for
several years into the repository and another campus-affiliated unit is
interested in pursuing the archiving of an electronic newsletter. The
seriality of these projects are causing me to wonder what the best way
to implement these. For example, there's a unit on campus called the
"Adult Education Department". The chair of the department is interested
in using DSpace as a repository and archive of the proceedings for an
annual conference that he's very much involved in, "The Midwest
Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing and Community
Education". It's a two-day conference and makes available several
conference papers each year.
Knowing the structure of IDEA and the relationships among its components
(i.e. communities, collections, items and file), I wonder what the best
way to do the above tasks.
My inclination is to make an "Adult Education Department" community,
with a "Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference" collection. This then
would seem to make each year of the conference a separate item, with
each paper a separate file within each item (i.e. year). But this gets
to be quite awkward. Each of these implementers wants to give each
contributor the ability to submit their own paper, but my understanding
is that this requires each contributor to have "update" authorization
which then gives them the ability to delete papers and change the
metadata. Further, if this is the set-up, I have concerns about the
metadata description of each file. It seems to me that we can add a
"description.toc" field to each item, but these aren't searchable, are
they? Further, like any serial record, there's only a very general
ability to describe the item and not particular topics that rest within
each paper or article. It doesn't seem very satisfying.
The other option that I've contemplated is more satisfying. It shifts
the structure upwards so that each paper or article is its own item with
accompanying metadata. But then each conference or online newsletter
must be its own community with each "issue" being the collection. This,
it seems to me, muddles the repository at the front end, as the list of
communities then becomes a mixture of campus departments, newsletters
and conferences. Again, this seems to be a solution that is not very
satisfying.
Can anyone help me to solve my way through this? I've searched through
the online documentation and DSpace Federation site, but can't seem to
put my finger on the help I need.
Thanks so much in advance!
Kevin
Kevin Petsche
Assistant Librarian
Electronic Journals Collection Manager
Digital Libraries/Cataloging Teams
IUPUI University Library UL1115D
755 West Michigan Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
317.278.2330
317.278.0368 (fax)
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From rwolfe at MIT.EDU Fri Mar 12 17:32:43 2004
From: rwolfe at MIT.EDU (Robert HW Wolfe)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:32:43 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Questions Regarding Structure of DSpace
In-Reply-To: <37EECABFDCD02B47A114618423A57FAD0113774A@iu-mssg-mbx03.exc
hange.iu.edu>
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20040312171554.00b7fd38@hesiod>
Kevin,
The Metadata Services Unit in the MIT libraries recently completed a DSpace
submission project for the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) that encountered
the same organizational considerations that you're working through. SMA
wanted to submit articles from conference proceedings for the past three
years. Each conference was organized into five subject areas. We made
each subject area a collection and added each article to the appropriate
collection as an item, capturing metadata at the level of
organization. The years are not architecturally distinct in this
community, but the browse by date feature allows for date-based
organizational views of the material.
I think of the differences between the files that comprise an item as being
trivial. The item is the conceptually unique object. It doesn't make
sense to me let papers expressing different ides be part of the same
item. Practically, search and discovery of articles that are files just
doesn't work. That being said I think that SMA, and likely your conference
are what is intended as a community. Which leaves us to fit the rest of
the hierarchical levels of a community's objects into the one collection
layer. If you can, I recommend having a look at the SMA collection at
MIT's DSpace, http://dspace.mit.edu/
Rob Wolfe
Metadata Specialist
MIT Libraries
At 05:02 PM 3/12/2004 -0500, Petsche, Kevin F wrote:
>content-class: urn:content-classes:message
>Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C4087D.B946CA32"
>
>Good day!
>
>
>
>Our implementation of DSpace is currently in beta testing here at IUPUI
>(http://dspace.iupui.edu) and we are getting a
>great response from some areas of the campus interested in placing
>material in the repository.
>
>
>
>But I am concerned that I am not setting-up some of these communities and
>collections in the best manner.
>
>
>
>Let me explain:
>
>
>
>A few units on campus are wishing to place conference proceedings for
>several years into the repository and another campus-affiliated unit is
>interested in pursuing the archiving of an electronic newsletter. The
>seriality of these projects are causing me to wonder what the best way to
>implement these. For example, there s a unit on campus called the Adult
>Education Department . The chair of the department is interested in using
>DSpace as a repository and archive of the proceedings for an annual
>conference that he s very much involved in, The Midwest
>Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing and Community
>Education . It s a two-day conference and makes available several
>conference papers each year.
>
>
>
>Knowing the structure of IDEA and the relationships among its components
>(i.e. communities, collections, items and file), I wonder what the best
>way to do the above tasks.
>
>
>
>My inclination is to make an Adult Education Department community, with a
>Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference collection. This then would seem
>to make each year of the conference a separate item, with each paper a
>separate file within each item (i.e. year). But this gets to be quite
>awkward. Each of these implementers wants to give each contributor the
>ability to submit their own paper, but my understanding is that this
>requires each contributor to have update authorization which then gives
>them the ability to delete papers and change the metadata. Further, if
>this is the set-up, I have concerns about the metadata description of each
>file. It seems to me that we can add a description.toc field to each
>item, but these aren t searchable, are they? Further, like any serial
>record, there s only a very general ability to describe the item and not
>particular topics that rest within each paper or article. It doesn t seem
>very satisfying.
>
>
>
>The other option that I ve contemplated is more satisfying. It shifts the
>structure upwards so that each paper or article is its own item with
>accompanying metadata. But then each conference or online newsletter must
>be its own community with each issue being the collection. This, it seems
>to me, muddles the repository at the front end, as the list of communities
>then becomes a mixture of campus departments, newsletters and
>conferences. Again, this seems to be a solution that is not very satisfying.
>
>
>
>Can anyone help me to solve my way through this? I ve searched through
>the online documentation and DSpace Federation site, but can t seem to put
>my finger on the help I need.
>
>
>
>Thanks so much in advance!
>
>
>
>Kevin
>
>
>
>Kevin Petsche
>
>Assistant Librarian
>
>Electronic Journals Collection Manager
>
>Digital Libraries/Cataloging Teams
>
>IUPUI University Library UL1115D
>
>755 West Michigan Street
>
>Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
>
>317.278.2330
>
>317.278.0368 (fax)
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Dspace-general mailing list
>Dspace-general at mit.edu
>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
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From mick.bass at hp.com Fri Mar 12 17:42:07 2004
From: mick.bass at hp.com (Bass, Mick)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:42:07 -0800
Subject: [Dspace-general] Questions Regarding Structure of DSpace
Message-ID: <40700B4C02ABD5119F0000902787664409FB5907@hplex1.hpl.hp.com>
Rob Wolfe writes:
> That being said I think that SMA, and likely your conference are what is intended as a community.
> Which leaves us to fit the rest of the hierarchical levels of a community's objects into the one collection layer.
The capability to create arbitrary hierarchies of communities in DSpace 1.2 (beta testers testing soon, release circa April?) should go a long way to addressing this issue. Rob Tansley demonstrated this capability at the DSpace users group meeting (yesterday!)
- Mick
====
Mick Bass
970.898.6788 office 408.216.0584 fax
617.899.3938 mobile 303.494.5202 residence
bass at alum.mit.edu mick_bass at hp.com
====
-----Original Message-----
From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Robert HW Wolfe
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 3:33 PM
To: Petsche, Kevin F; dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Questions Regarding Structure of DSpace
Kevin,
The Metadata Services Unit in the MIT libraries recently completed a DSpace submission project for the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) that encountered the same organizational considerations that you're working through. SMA wanted to submit articles from conference proceedings for the past three years. Each conference was organized into five subject areas. We made each subject area a collection and added each article to the appropriate collection as an item, capturing metadata at the level of organization. The years are not architecturally distinct in this community, but the browse by date feature allows for date-based organizational views of the material.
I think of the differences between the files that comprise an item as being trivial. The item is the conceptually unique object. It doesn't make sense to me let papers expressing different ides be part of the same item. Practically, search and discovery of articles that are files just doesn't work. That being said I think that SMA, and likely your conference are what is intended as a community. Which leaves us to fit the rest of the hierarchical levels of a community's objects into the one collection layer. If you can, I recommend having a look at the SMA collection at MIT's DSpace, http://dspace.mit.edu/
Rob Wolfe
Metadata Specialist
MIT Libraries
At 05:02 PM 3/12/2004 -0500, Petsche, Kevin F wrote:
content-class: urn:content-classes:message
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C4087D.B946CA32"
Good day!
Our implementation of DSpace is currently in beta testing here at IUPUI (http://dspace.iupui.edu ) and we are getting a great response from some areas of the campus interested in placing material in the repository.
But I am concerned that I am not setting-up some of these communities and collections in the best manner.
Let me explain:
A few units on campus are wishing to place conference proceedings for several years into the repository and another campus-affiliated unit is interested in pursuing the archiving of an electronic newsletter. The seriality of these projects are causing me to wonder what the best way to implement these. For example, there s a unit on campus called the Adult Education Department . The chair of the department is interested in using DSpace as a repository and archive of the proceedings for an annual conference that he s very much involved in, The Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing and Community Education . It s a two-day conference and makes available several conference papers each year.
Knowing the structure of IDEA and the relationships among its components (i.e. communities, collections, items and file), I wonder what the best way to do the above tasks.
My inclination is to make an Adult Education Department community, with a Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference collection. This then would seem to make each year of the conference a separate item, with each paper a separate file within each item (i.e. year). But this gets to be quite awkward. Each of these implementers wants to give each contributor the ability to submit their own paper, but my understanding is that this requires each contributor to have update authorization which then gives them the ability to delete papers and change the metadata. Further, if this is the set-up, I have concerns about the metadata description of each file. It seems to me that we can add a description.toc field to each item, but these aren t searchable, are they? Further, like any serial record, there s only a very general ability to describe the item and not particular topics that rest within each paper or article. It doesn t seem very satisfying.
The other option that I ve contemplated is more satisfying. It shifts the structure upwards so that each paper or article is its own item with accompanying metadata. But then each conference or online newsletter must be its own community with each issue being the collection. This, it seems to me, muddles the repository at the front end, as the list of communities then becomes a mixture of campus departments, newsletters and conferences. Again, this seems to be a solution that is not very satisfying.
Can anyone help me to solve my way through this? I ve searched through the online documentation and DSpace Federation site, but can t seem to put my finger on the help I need.
Thanks so much in advance!
Kevin
Kevin Petsche
Assistant Librarian
Electronic Journals Collection Manager
Digital Libraries/Cataloging Teams
IUPUI University Library UL1115D
755 West Michigan Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
317.278.2330
317.278.0368 (fax)
_______________________________________________
Dspace-general mailing list
Dspace-general at mit.edu
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
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From kenzie at MIT.EDU Sat Mar 13 12:08:46 2004
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 12:08:46 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] OAI compliance?
In-Reply-To: <1557.160.36.192.134.1079118792.squirrel@kiva.lib.utk.edu>
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040313112054.010afdb0@hesiod>
Hi Jody,
The articles you cited were incorrect. DSpace has supported OAI since it's
initial release, using the OAICat module from OCLC, and is currently
supporting version 2.0 of the protocol. See
http://dspace.org/technology/system-docs/functional.html#oai for details
(the only inaccuracy there is that the system now supports resumption tokens).
MacKenzie
At 02:13 PM 3/12/2004 -0500, Jody DeRidder wrote:
>Do you have dspace up as an OAI repository? I was wondering how it
>tested out. I ran across a couple of old messages online that said it
>wasn't OAI compliant, and am wondering if the issues have been
>resolved:
>
>http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-general/2003-February/000257.html
> (creator in contributor field)
>Fran?ois Schiettecatte posted 14 Feb 2003 to [OAI-general] listserv
>
>http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-general/2003-February/000239.html
> DSpace isn't as of 2003/02/06 OAI compliant
>"Repo-Explorer & Celestial both fail to harvest. When implementing
>any XML application input should be checked for bad chars (no
>control characters, and any >128 characters should be checked
>against the Unicode character set)."
>(Tim Brody, posted 6 Feburary 2003 to [OAI-general] listserv)
>
>
>--jody
>
>
>--
> Jody DeRidder
> IT Administrator II
> Digital Library Center
> 648A John C. Hodges Library
> University of Tennessee
> Knoxville, TN 37996
>
> Phone: (865) 974-4796
> Email: deridder at aztec.lib.utk.edu
>
>_______________________________________________
>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 bialangiano at yahoo.com.br Mon Mar 15 13:12:39 2004
From: bialangiano at yahoo.com.br (=?iso-8859-1?q?Beatriz=20Langiano?=)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:12:39 -0300 (ART)
Subject: [Dspace-general] OAI
Message-ID: <20040315181239.94099.qmail@web60904.mail.yahoo.com>
Hi, my name is Beatriz
I want validate my Dspace repository in OAI.
I testing my repository in "Repository Explorer tool"
in the option " Test and Add an archive to this list"
and when I put the base URL of my repositorium
(http://fantomas.inf.ufpr.br:8580/oai/) I received the
follow error:
Open Archives Initiative :: Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting v2.0
RE Protocol Tester 1.45a :: Virginia Tech DLRL ::
March 2003
(1) Testing : Identify
URL :
http://fantomas.inf.ufpr.br:8580/oai/?verb=Identify
------ Start of XML Response ------
Apache Tomcat/4.1.27 - Error
report HTTP
Status 404 - /oai/
type Status
report
message
/oai/
description The requested
resource (/oai/) is not available.
Apache
Tomcat/4.1.27
------- End of XML
Response -------
Test Result : FAIL!
**** [ERROR] Unexpected HTTP Error : 404 / /oai/
(2) Testing : Identify (illegal_parameter)
URL :
http://fantomas.inf.ufpr.br:8580/oai/?verb=Identify&test=test
------ Start of XML Response ------
Apache Tomcat/4.1.27 - Error
report HTTP
Status 404 - /oai/
type Status
report
message
/oai/
description The requested
resource (/oai/) is not available.
Apache
Tomcat/4.1.27
------- End of XML
Response -------
Test Result : FAIL!
**** [ERROR] Unexpected HTTP Error : 404 / /oai/
...
Could you tell me what means this error?
Thanks Beatriz
______________________________________________________________________
Yahoo! Mail - O melhor e-mail do Brasil! Abra sua conta agora:
http://br.yahoo.com/info/mail.html
From kpetsche at iupui.edu Mon Mar 15 16:49:37 2004
From: kpetsche at iupui.edu (Petsche, Kevin F)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:49:37 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Questions Regarding Structure of DSpace
Message-ID: <37EECABFDCD02B47A114618423A57FAD01137765@iu-mssg-mbx03.exchange.iu.edu>
Rob and Mick
Thanks for your responses to my message. Regarding the "arbitrary hierarchies", is there any documentation (txt, ppt, or anything else?) that could be sent out describing this a bit more?
Thanks again!
Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: Bass, Mick [mailto:mick.bass at hp.com]
Sent: Fri 3/12/2004 5:42 PM
To: Robert HW Wolfe; Petsche, Kevin F; dspace-general at mit.edu
Cc:
Subject: RE: [Dspace-general] Questions Regarding Structure of DSpace
Rob Wolfe writes:
> That being said I think that SMA, and likely your conference are what is intended as a community.
> Which leaves us to fit the rest of the hierarchical levels of a community's objects into the one collection layer.
The capability to create arbitrary hierarchies of communities in DSpace 1.2 (beta testers testing soon, release circa April?) should go a long way to addressing this issue. Rob Tansley demonstrated this capability at the DSpace users group meeting (yesterday!)
- Mick
====
Mick Bass
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From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Robert HW Wolfe
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 3:33 PM
To: Petsche, Kevin F; dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Questions Regarding Structure of DSpace
Kevin,
The Metadata Services Unit in the MIT libraries recently completed a DSpace submission project for the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) that encountered the same organizational considerations that you're working through. SMA wanted to submit articles from conference proceedings for the past three years. Each conference was organized into five subject areas. We made each subject area a collection and added each article to the appropriate collection as an item, capturing metadata at the level of organization. The years are not architecturally distinct in this community, but the browse by date feature allows for date-based organizational views of the material.
I think of the differences between the files that comprise an item as being trivial. The item is the conceptually unique object. It doesn't make sense to me let papers expressing different ides be part of the same item. Practically, search and discovery of articles that are files just doesn't work. That being said I think that SMA, and likely your conference are what is intended as a community. Which leaves us to fit the rest of the hierarchical levels of a community's objects into the one collection layer. If you can, I recommend having a look at the SMA collection at MIT's DSpace, http://dspace.mit.edu/
Rob Wolfe
Metadata Specialist
MIT Libraries
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Good day!
Our implementation of DSpace is currently in beta testing here at IUPUI (http://dspace.iupui.edu ) and we are getting a great response from some areas of the campus interested in placing material in the repository.
But I am concerned that I am not setting-up some of these communities and collections in the best manner.
Let me explain:
A few units on campus are wishing to place conference proceedings for several years into the repository and another campus-affiliated unit is interested in pursuing the archiving of an electronic newsletter. The seriality of these projects are causing me to wonder what the best way to implement these. For example, there s a unit on campus called the Adult Education Department . The chair of the department is interested in using DSpace as a repository and archive of the proceedings for an annual conference that he s very much involved in, The Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing and Community Education . It s a two-day conference and makes available several conference papers each year.
Knowing the structure of IDEA and the relationships among its components (i.e. communities, collections, items and file), I wonder what the best way to do the above tasks.
My inclination is to make an Adult Education Department community, with a Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference collection. This then would seem to make each year of the conference a separate item, with each paper a separate file within each item (i.e. year). But this gets to be quite awkward. Each of these implementers wants to give each contributor the ability to submit their own paper, but my understanding is that this requires each contributor to have update authorization which then gives them the ability to delete papers and change the metadata. Further, if this is the set-up, I have concerns about the metadata description of each file. It seems to me that we can add a description.toc field to each item, but these aren t searchable, are they? Further, like any serial record, there s only a very general ability to describe the item and not particular topics that rest within each paper or article. It doesn t seem very satisfying.
The other option that I ve contemplated is more satisfying. It shifts the structure upwards so that each paper or article is its own item with accompanying metadata. But then each conference or online newsletter must be its own community with each issue being the collection. This, it seems to me, muddles the repository at the front end, as the list of communities then becomes a mixture of campus departments, newsletters and conferences. Again, this seems to be a solution that is not very satisfying.
Can anyone help me to solve my way through this? I ve searched through the online documentation and DSpace Federation site, but can t seem to put my finger on the help I need.
Thanks so much in advance!
Kevin
Kevin Petsche
Assistant Librarian
Electronic Journals Collection Manager
Digital Libraries/Cataloging Teams
IUPUI University Library UL1115D
755 West Michigan Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
317.278.2330
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From kenzie at MIT.EDU Mon Mar 15 22:23:06 2004
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:23:06 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Call for participation in Google pilot project
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040315132934.01c52a20@hesiod>
Call for participation in a pilot project with Google, DSpace, and OCLC:
At the DSpace user group meeting at MIT last week, a representative of
Google gave a presentation on how they would like work with the DSpace user
community to improve access to our content, possibly creating a new
advanced search feature similar to the "site:" feature which limits
searches to particular domains or servers. Perhaps something like a
"dspace:" filter to limit searches to scholarly content from our
institutional repositories.
The mechanism we discussed at the meeting isn't fully defined, but we will
start by working with OCLC to develop a new registry-type service of
collections for Google to harvest. OCLC will use the OAI protocol for
metadata harvesting to collect eligible metadata records from participating
institutions, resolve the DSpace Handles (or other persistent IDs) to the
standard form of URLs that Google prefers, and Google can then use the URLs
in OCLC's registry to index the relevant content from participating
institutions.
To express an interest in participating in the pilot project, please send
me email this week and we'll take it from there.
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
From jorlandi at psu.edu Wed Mar 17 09:41:29 2004
From: jorlandi at psu.edu (Jack Orlandi)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:41:29 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] User Group Meeting Agenda...presentations
Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.2.20040317094007.02cd3498@psulias.psu.edu>
Great meeting last week.
There was discussion about putting the posting the presentations
online....any idea when this might be accomplished??
thanks
jack
Jack E. Orlandi
Group Manager
Digital Library Technologies
Pennsylvania State University
E3 Paterno
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-1818
Fax: (814) 863-3560
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From bialangiano at yahoo.com.br Wed Mar 17 14:53:01 2004
From: bialangiano at yahoo.com.br (=?iso-8859-1?q?Beatriz=20Langiano?=)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:53:01 -0300 (ART)
Subject: [Dspace-general] Mail admin
Message-ID: <20040317195301.58399.qmail@web60904.mail.yahoo.com>
Hi,
I'm having problems with the mail admin. I changed the
administrator's mail in config.cfg to my e-mail, but
when I try to do the register of my repository in OAI,
the administrator's email address that appears is
dspace-help at inf.ufpr.br, even so I restarted the
Dspace server.
Could you help me?
Thanks, Beatriz
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From jhwalker at MIT.EDU Wed Mar 17 16:52:47 2004
From: jhwalker at MIT.EDU (Julie Harford Walker)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:52:47 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] User Group Meeting Agenda...presentations
In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.2.20040317094007.02cd3498@psulias.psu.edu>
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040317162220.011b0d98@hesiod>
Hi Jack,
Thanks for participating last week. Glad to hear it was worthwhile.
We are working to get the presentations, etc. online as quickly as we
can. I'll send out an announcement as soon as they are available, probable
sometime early next week. Stay tuned!
Best regards,
Julie
At 09:41 AM 3/17/2004 -0500, Jack Orlandi wrote:
>Great meeting last week.
>
>There was discussion about putting the posting the presentations
>online....any idea when this might be accomplished??
>
>thanks
>
>jack
>
>Jack E. Orlandi
>Group Manager
>Digital Library Technologies
>Pennsylvania State University
>E3 Paterno
>University Park, PA 16802
>Phone: (814) 865-1818
>Fax: (814) 863-3560
>
>_______________________________________________
>Dspace-general mailing list
>Dspace-general at mit.edu
>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
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From kenzie at MIT.EDU Fri Mar 19 17:49:37 2004
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:49:37 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Summary of March 2004 DSpace user group outcomes
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040319174231.01f42b40@hesiod>
Greetings all,
At the close of the very successful first meeting of the DSpace user
community last week, I promised to send out a summary of the major
outcomes. A more thorough summary of the meeting will follow, and we are
hard at work to get all the presentations and other material up on the
DSpace Federation website just as quickly as we can. Thanks again to
everyone who presented at the meeting and provided us with such interesting
topics for discussion.
Summary:
-- The DSpace platform is being put to a variety of uses, primarily to
create institutional repositories of research publications and other
material, but also for other applications (e-thesis repositories, learning
object repositories, e-journal publishing, cultural material collections,
electronic records management, and so on). Its utility lies in its focus on
making content accessible (findable, retrievable) and preserving it over
time, and those two things should remain its primary focus going forward,
along with developing and perpetuating standards for information and
digital object models. There was general validation of a proposed new 2.0
architecture which is more modular and has a more formal API structure that
allows other, more context-specific applications to be built on top of DSpace.
-- The DSpace Federation is now open to all. Anyone can join, everyone can
contribute. There are many ways to contribute:
-- become part of the DSpace developer community. We will soon be
establishing a group of system architects and developers to share ongoing
responsibility for designing, maintaining, and enhancing the DSpace system
-- participation is welcome from any institution, and the exact criteria
and process for joining the group will be established shortly by a seed
group of 5-6 developers from different organizations using DSpace now. More
on this soon.
-- if you can't contribute programming, there's still lots to do,
including: testing and debugging the system (including supplying patches),
writing and reviewing documentation, and providing domain expertise to
inform functionality that the system should implement (for example, by
participating in one of the new SIGs described below). We'll work with the
community to establish channels for all these activities within the DSpace
Federation framework.
-- It's time to start thinking about the long-term governance of DSpace
outside of MIT or HP (e.g. the social, legal, political, economic, policy,
and organizational aspects). We should look at other open source software
governance models (e.g. Apache Foundation, Global Grid Forum, W3C, etc.)
and develop a plan either to create a new non-profit organization for this
purpose, or join an existing one. We should explore various models and
policies for transfer of intellectual property - for example, copyright and
licensing of code, and the DSpace trademark - to this organization, so that
it can be established in such a way that an initial contribution of DSpace
IP from MIT and HP is tenable, and so that academic and commercial
institutions will be willing to contribute additional IP in the future. As
a first step towards this, the current mailing lists and other DSpace
Federation services will migrate over to the dspace.org domain from its
current home in the mit.edu domain. Work on the DSpace platform and related
efforts will continue unabated while this entity is being established under
the current, informal governance model.
-- Institutional Repositories are a high-value, long-term vision, but are
still very much works in progress. We need to continue to collaborate on
how best to build them, by sharing information about advocacy, marketing,
assessment, policies, business plans, and a myriad of other issues that
help us understand how institutional repositories will work to best
advantage. Since these issues go beyond the DSpace platform to include
other organizations, platforms, and views on access and preservation, we
need to establish another, more inclusive community with which to
collaborate. This community would include DSpace users but not exclusively.
SPARC (and possibly other organizations) will be approached to help create
this forum, and the DSpace-based institutional repository implementors will
help in whatever way we can.
-- The DSpace Federation will continue to foster new and innnovative uses
of the DSpace platform by creating a set of Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
who can discuss the necessary features and functions of particular
applications of the platform. A preliminary list of these might include:
institutional repositories, e-thesis repositories, learning object
repositories, records managements systems, and publishing systems (open
access or other). These will be hosted on the dspace.org website and will
be open to all. Institutions using DSpace will ensure that they have
cross-representation on these groups and the developers groups so that
useful features and functions specified by SIGs are successfully implemented.
The feedback we've gotten about the value of the meeting to the DSpace
community was clear: it was very useful! We at MIT certainly found it so,
and hope to keep working with you for a long time to come. Thanks again to
everyone who attended the meeting and made it so productive and lively. We
hope we'll get an opportunity to do it again!
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 subrahmanyam-v.kotra at hp.com Tue Mar 23 02:30:57 2004
From: subrahmanyam-v.kotra at hp.com (Kotra, Subrahmanyam V.)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:30:57 +0800
Subject: [Dspace-general] servlet.jar
Message-ID:
Hello Francis Brouns
For me also the following message in catalina.out: Starting service Tomcat-Standalone Apache Tomcat/4.1.24 WebappClassLoader: validateJarFile(/opt/jakarta/tomcat/webapps/dspace-oai/WEB-INF/lib/servl et.jar) - jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, section 9.7.2. Offending class: javax/servlet/Servlet.class WebappClassLoader: validateJarFile(/opt/jakarta/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/servlet.jar ) - jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, section 9.7.2. Offending class: javax/servlet/Servlet.class Apparently servlet.jar is not loaded. We installed Dspace 1.1.1. on Suse 8, following the guidelines for a Tomcat Standalone installation. Tomcat version is 4.1.24. servlet.jar is present in the Dspace WEB-INF directory.
How can we correct this?
Kind regards,
Subra
From cp at cvt.dk Fri Mar 26 04:42:09 2004
From: cp at cvt.dk (Christoffer Pio)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:42:09 +0100
Subject: [Dspace-general]
task doesn't support the nested "packageset" element.
Message-ID: <4063FAF1.1070305@cvt.dk>
Hello
I have the the dspace source code from the CVS repository at
sourceforge.net. When I attempt to build this code I get the following
error :
root at dspace:/usr/local/cvs/dspace# ant
Buildfile: build.xml
BUILD FAILED
/usr/local/cvs/dspace/build.xml:430: The task doesn't support
the nested "packageset" element.
Total time: 2 seconds
Is it possible to get the CVS version to compile in some way? The guys
here is very
insistent that we run the newest version of DSpace directly from the CVS.
I can compile ver. 1.1.1 sucesfully with the same compiler setup and JAR
files.
Can someone help me out?
Regards,
Christoffer
From iwilliams at library.uwi.tt Fri Mar 26 11:34:34 2004
From: iwilliams at library.uwi.tt (Irwin Williams)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:34:34 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] RE: Dspace install issues
Message-ID: <21530F7443DED311AC3500C04F238E88BE0855@SANTW40LIBRY001>
Hi,
I'm installing dspace on redhat linux 7. I am using the instructions from:
http://sunsite.utk.edu/diglib/dspace/dspaceinstallnotes.txt . Things have
gone fairly well, up to the point when I run "ant; ant fresh_install".
I have been getting a number of "Cannot resolve symbol" errors. And ant
tells me the install failed.
I realize the problem may involve how java is configured, but I am not sure
where. Any clues?
Irwin
From SGibbons at library.rochester.edu Mon Mar 29 20:29:14 2004
From: SGibbons at library.rochester.edu (Susan Gibbons)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:29:14 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Data sets
Message-ID:
Greetings DSpace Users:
I'm in search of examples of DSpace being used to build data set
collections. I'd be appreciative of any leads you could email me.
Thanks!
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 charlselo at intelnett.com Tue Mar 30 13:29:25 2004
From: charlselo at intelnett.com (charlselo)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:29:25 -0600
Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace search engine (HELP)
Message-ID: <20040330122925.M5898@intelnett.com>
This year we start an enterprising project using DSpace. We want to make a
library that is going to be use by all the students of our University. We
are making some source development using DSpace and other tools, but maybe
this is not exactly an idea or comment, is a question. I'm now working with
the DSpace search engine ( Lucene wrapper ). But my question is , Does
DSpace only search through the metadata ? Can I search through the documents
( inside the documents [files] ) extending some DSpace search engine
preferences ? How ?. I'm using now the complete Lucene tool to do so, but
I have to make a new index (indexing the files) , but I want to use the
index that is already in DSpace. Is there a DSpace version that has this
functionality, to search inside the files ? Well , I'm going to appreciate a
little help here. So thanks !
Please mail me to this address: charlselo at intelnett.com
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From chenk at u.library.arizona.edu Tue Mar 30 12:55:56 2004
From: chenk at u.library.arizona.edu (Chen, Kevin)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:55:56 -0700
Subject: [Dspace-general] RE: [Dspace-tech] DSpace search engine (HELP)
Message-ID:
Charles,
We have been implementing a huge learning object repository using DSpace for
a year. To my best knowledge there is no way you can instruct the current
version of DSpace to search inside the files. Searching inside files is not
an easy task for search engines. For one thing, there is no application or
code module in the world that knows how to "decode" the contents from every
kind of file format.
I don't know whether Lucene has the capability of doing so, but if it has
you'll have to do it by yourself - making new Java classes to call Lucene
APIs to search on files ~
Nai-Shuo Kevin Chen
Senior Applications Systems Analyst
University of Arizona Libraries
MS.MIS, U. of Arizona 2003
MS.Administration, Central Michigan U., 2000
-----Original Message-----
From: charlselo [mailto:charlselo at intelnett.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:29 AM
To: dspace-general at mit.edu; dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Dspace-tech] DSpace search engine (HELP)
This year we start an enterprising project using DSpace. We want to make a
library that is going to be use by all the students of our University. We
are making some source development using DSpace and other tools, but maybe
this is not exactly an idea or comment, is a question. I'm now working with
the DSpace search engine ( Lucene wrapper ). But my question is , Does
DSpace only search through the metadata ? Can I search through the documents
( inside the documents [files] ) extending some DSpace search engine
preferences ? How ?. I'm using now the complete Lucene tool to do so, but
I have to make a new index (indexing the files) , but I want to use the
index that is already in DSpace. Is there a DSpace version that has this
functionality, to search inside the files ? Well , I'm going to appreciate a
little help here. So thanks !
Please mail me to this address: charlselo at intelnett.com
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