From richard.d.jones at imperial.ac.uk Fri Dec 1 04:15:57 2006
From: richard.d.jones at imperial.ac.uk (Richard Jones)
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:15:57 +0000
Subject: [Dspace-general] "Citation" Input Box
In-Reply-To: <1164915606.456f3396d8f6d@webmail.ksu.edu>
References: <1164915606.456f3396d8f6d@webmail.ksu.edu>
Message-ID: <456FF2CD.3050105@imperial.ac.uk>
Hi Marty,
> Has anyone created (or thinking about creating) a custom submission form
> that prompts the submitter for individual elements of the citation
> rather than relying on a single "Citation" input box?
Although we are not doing this through the DSpace submit UI, we are
collecting elements of citation data as separate metadata fields. I've
then written some (configurable) code to generate the
identifier.citation field from that source data, which means we can
enforce the style of the citation.
> For example, instead of seeing the "Citation" input box, the submitter
> might see several input boxes, such as
>
> Article title:
> Journal title:
> Volume No.:
> Issue or Issue No.:
> Year:
> Starting Page:
> Ending Page:
>
> Another way to ask the question: Does the single "Citation" input box
> work ok? My concern is that users could enter all sorts of malformed
> citations in a single input box. Providing a separate input box for
> each citation element would likely yield more complete metatdata and
> is similar to the interface for entering citations into bibliographic
> database management programs such as EndNote, RefWorks, etc.
>
> This approach seems easy to implement for a single format, e.g.,
> articles, but it gets tricky to carry the same approach through
> multiple formats within a single submission form.#
Automatic citation generation can be tricky, hence the existence of
systems like this: http://citationmachine.net/. But a simple solution
which loaded different (locally configured) forms of citations for
different parameters (e.g. submission type) could be doable.
Cheers,
--
Richard
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From sugita at lib.hokudai.ac.jp Fri Dec 1 09:19:55 2006
From: sugita at lib.hokudai.ac.jp (SUGITA Shigeki)
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 23:19:55 +0900
Subject: [Dspace-general] "Citation" Input Box
In-Reply-To: <456FF2CD.3050105@imperial.ac.uk>
References: <456FF2CD.3050105@imperial.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <2006120114195553221129695.sugita@lib.hokudai.ac.jp>
Hi,
We have issn, e-issn, jtitle, volume, issue, spage, epage, doi(of published
version) separately for linking from link resolvers.
ex. http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2115/16870?locale=en
Also see our project named AIRway at https://dspace.gla.ac.uk/handle/1905/659
Project homepage will be opened soon (now only in Japanese).
http://airway.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/index_en.html
> Hi Marty,
>
> > Has anyone created (or thinking about creating) a custom submission form
> > that prompts the submitter for individual elements of the citation
> > rather than relying on a single "Citation" input box?
>
> Although we are not doing this through the DSpace submit UI, we are
> collecting elements of citation data as separate metadata fields. I've
> then written some (configurable) code to generate the
> identifier.citation field from that source data, which means we can
> enforce the style of the citation.
>
> > For example, instead of seeing the "Citation" input box, the submitter
> > might see several input boxes, such as
> >
> > Article title:
> > Journal title:
> > Volume No.:
> > Issue or Issue No.:
> > Year:
> > Starting Page:
> > Ending Page:
> >
> > Another way to ask the question: Does the single "Citation" input box
> > work ok? My concern is that users could enter all sorts of malformed
> > citations in a single input box. Providing a separate input box for
> > each citation element would likely yield more complete metatdata and
> > is similar to the interface for entering citations into bibliographic
> > database management programs such as EndNote, RefWorks, etc.
> >
> > This approach seems easy to implement for a single format, e.g.,
> > articles, but it gets tricky to carry the same approach through
> > multiple formats within a single submission form.#
>
> Automatic citation generation can be tricky, hence the existence of
> systems like this: http://citationmachine.net/. But a simple solution
> which loaded different (locally configured) forms of citations for
> different parameters (e.g. submission type) could be doable.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Richard
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> Web & Database | e: richard.d.jones at imperial.ac.uk
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> Imperial College London |
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From sverre.joki at bibsys.no Fri Dec 1 09:28:09 2006
From: sverre.joki at bibsys.no (Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki)
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:28:09 +0100
Subject: [Dspace-general] End-user documentation
Message-ID: <45703BF9.9010401@bibsys.no>
Hi,
We are testing our DSpace installations before we launch them out to the
users. One of the things that has come up during this test is that there
should be better help texts, or some kind of introductory user
documentations for the administrator.
We are looking for a non-technical documentation like "Introduction to
administrering DSpace" or "Setting up your DSpace communities and
collections during your lunch break" or something like that.
Is there anyone who has user documentation or anything like this that
they would like to share?
Kind regards,
Sverre Magnus
--
Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki
BIBSYS
7491 Trondheim
From Claudia.Juergen at ub.uni-dortmund.de Fri Dec 1 09:46:27 2006
From: Claudia.Juergen at ub.uni-dortmund.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claudia_J=FCrgen?=)
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:46:27 +0100
Subject: [Dspace-general] End-user documentation
In-Reply-To: <45703BF9.9010401@bibsys.no>
References: <45703BF9.9010401@bibsys.no>
Message-ID: <45704043.9010607@ub.uni-dortmund.de>
Hi Sverre Magnus,
there is some documentation and additional guides on the wiki:
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DspaceResources#Documentation_and_Guides
like the
DSpace how-to guide: tips and tricks for managing common DSpace chores
(by Dorothea Salo and Tim Donohue)
Claudia
Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> We are testing our DSpace installations before we launch them out to the
> users. One of the things that has come up during this test is that there
> should be better help texts, or some kind of introductory user
> documentations for the administrator.
>
> We are looking for a non-technical documentation like "Introduction to
> administrering DSpace" or "Setting up your DSpace communities and
> collections during your lunch break" or something like that.
>
> Is there anyone who has user documentation or anything like this that
> they would like to share?
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Sverre Magnus
>
From sverre.joki at bibsys.no Fri Dec 1 10:41:39 2006
From: sverre.joki at bibsys.no (Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki)
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:41:39 +0100
Subject: [Dspace-general] End-user documentation
References: 45704043.9010607@ub.uni-dortmund.de
Message-ID: <45704D33.1090403@bibsys.no>
Hi Claudia.
I've had a look at the documentation you mention, and this is
unfortunately not the documentation we are looking for. Both the "tips &
tricks..." and the DSpace Sys Doc are great, but they are intended for
the DSpace admin.
I was quite uclear about this in my first mail, but what we are looking
for, is documentation for the collections administrators. Very
non-technical and not about the files, configs, styles etc. Just about:
- the use of the DSpace admin interface
- what a collections is and what a community is
- what a workflow is and how the admins can achieve what they want using
them
- and how it all works (non-technical of cource).
I hope this clarifies things a bit.
Sverre Magnus
Claudia J?rgen wrote:
> Hi Sverre Magnus,
>
> there is some documentation and additional guides on the wiki:
> http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DspaceResources#Documentation_and_Guides
> like the
> DSpace how-to guide: tips and tricks for managing common DSpace chores
> (by Dorothea Salo and Tim Donohue)
>
> Claudia
>
>
> Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are testing our DSpace installations before we launch them out to the
>> users. One of the things that has come up during this test is that there
>> should be better help texts, or some kind of introductory user
>> documentations for the administrator.
>>
>> We are looking for a non-technical documentation like "Introduction to
>> administrering DSpace" or "Setting up your DSpace communities and
>> collections during your lunch break" or something like that.
>>
>> Is there anyone who has user documentation or anything like this that
>> they would like to share?
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Sverre Magnus
>>
>
--
Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki
BIBSYS
7491 Trondheim
From Claudia.Juergen at ub.uni-dortmund.de Fri Dec 1 11:10:33 2006
From: Claudia.Juergen at ub.uni-dortmund.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claudia_J=FCrgen?=)
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:10:33 +0100
Subject: [Dspace-general] End-user documentation
In-Reply-To: <45704D33.1090403@bibsys.no>
References: 45704043.9010607@ub.uni-dortmund.de <45704D33.1090403@bibsys.no>
Message-ID: <457053F9.1090301@ub.uni-dortmund.de>
Hi Sverre Magnus,
maybe you could use the help/collection-admin.html as a starting point
and build your own docs upon it.
Claudia
Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki schrieb:
> Hi Claudia.
>
> I've had a look at the documentation you mention, and this is
> unfortunately not the documentation we are looking for. Both the "tips &
> tricks..." and the DSpace Sys Doc are great, but they are intended for
> the DSpace admin.
>
> I was quite uclear about this in my first mail, but what we are looking
> for, is documentation for the collections administrators. Very
> non-technical and not about the files, configs, styles etc. Just about:
> - the use of the DSpace admin interface
> - what a collections is and what a community is
> - what a workflow is and how the admins can achieve what they want using
> them
> - and how it all works (non-technical of cource).
>
>
> I hope this clarifies things a bit.
>
>
> Sverre Magnus
>
>
> Claudia J?rgen wrote:
>> Hi Sverre Magnus,
>>
>> there is some documentation and additional guides on the wiki:
>> http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DspaceResources#Documentation_and_Guides
>> like the
>> DSpace how-to guide: tips and tricks for managing common DSpace chores
>> (by Dorothea Salo and Tim Donohue)
>>
>> Claudia
>>
>>
>> Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We are testing our DSpace installations before we launch them out to
>>> the users. One of the things that has come up during this test is
>>> that there should be better help texts, or some kind of introductory
>>> user documentations for the administrator.
>>>
>>> We are looking for a non-technical documentation like "Introduction
>>> to administrering DSpace" or "Setting up your DSpace communities and
>>> collections during your lunch break" or something like that.
>>>
>>> Is there anyone who has user documentation or anything like this that
>>> they would like to share?
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Sverre Magnus
>>>
>>
>
>
From John.Murtagh at brunel.ac.uk Mon Dec 4 06:43:36 2006
From: John.Murtagh at brunel.ac.uk (John Murtagh)
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:43:36 -0000
Subject: [Dspace-general] Brunel University Research Archive - Launch
Message-ID: <106FFBC2989C2944A87980CD7D8CBE7A753F96@UXEXMBU116.academic.windsor>
*Apologies for Cross-posting*
A new university repository providing free and open access to research
and doctoral theses will be launched on December 4.
The Brunel University Research Archive
(BURA) will be officially launched today by the Vice Chancellor
Professor Chris Jenks. Also speaking at the event will be the Pro Vice
Chancellor for Student Experience Professor Rob Macredie who has over
twenty papers deposited and Gareth Johnson
of Sherpa Romeo, a service
site that provides a listing of publishers' copyright conditions as they
relate to authors archiving their work on-line.
BURA will make journal articles conference papers, doctoral theses,
recordings and images freely available via the internet, allowing users
to read, download and copy material for non-commercial private study or
research purposes.
Presently, there are more than 100 items on BURA and the number is
increasing every day. These include some of the first PhDs accredited by
Brunel University 40 years ago; an archive of contemporary poetry
recordings deposited by Dr Andrea Brady of the School of Arts; and
papers from Professor John Sumpter, one of the most cited scientists in
the world, including his own 1977 thesis from the University of Wales in
Bangor.
John Murtagh, project manager of BURA said: "If you want the university
to be more research-focused, you have got to get your research out
there." The impetus for BURA has come from an increasing awareness that
most research is publicly funded, and, therefore, should be publicly
accessible.
He added: "There are obvious advantages for an academic. Self-archiving
can increase the citation rate of a piece of written work by 25 to 250
per cent."
Brunel's School of Information Systems Computing and Mathematics is
supporting the initiative to make it compulsory for researchers to
deposit their journal articles and theses in BURA.
"This is not only very good news for the long-term success of BURA but
for academics it will make readily available their research to the
world. If it is successful, it could also lead onto the whole university
adopting mandatory self-archiving."
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/3/Press%20Releases/BURADec406FINAL.doc
________________________________________________
John Murtagh
Project Manager - Brunel University Research Archive
Brunel Library
Kingston Road
Uxbridge
UB8 3PH
Tel: 0189 526 5417
Fax: 01895 269741
E-mail: john.murtagh at brunel.ac.uk
Website: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/
PPlease don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.
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From mdiggory at MIT.EDU Mon Dec 4 14:37:06 2006
From: mdiggory at MIT.EDU (Mark Diggory)
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 14:37:06 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] [Notice] www.dspace.org moving to new hardware
Message-ID:
This is just a heads-up that over the next hour or so www.dspace.org
will transition from running on an old Solaris box to being served
off our production web-server next to wiki.dspace.org. We feel the
transition should be uneventful and you should not see any
difference. However, dns cache updating may take some time, there is
a small chance that your resolution may fail for a short time
depending on your service provider.
-Mark
Mark R. Diggory
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DSpace Systems Manager
MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
From blancoj at umich.edu Tue Dec 5 14:43:57 2006
From: blancoj at umich.edu (Jose Blanco)
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:43:57 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] too many open files
Message-ID: <20061205194606.1CC1D13C3F4@mit.edu>
A day ago I posted that we were getting "too many files open" error and I
found this thread today discussing it:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=39921
&max_rows=25&style=flat&viewmonth=200408
I'm a bit confused as to what I need to do. I have version 1.4 of DSpace,
I'm not sure what version of Lucene I have. Can some one tell me how I can
find that out? Do I need to get the latest version of Lucene and run
./filter-media with a -f switch to force all items to be re-indexed to
create compound files and get rid of this error?
Thanks!
Jose
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From mdiggory at MIT.EDU Tue Dec 5 15:32:37 2006
From: mdiggory at MIT.EDU (Mark Diggory)
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:32:37 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] too many open files
In-Reply-To: <20061205194606.1CC1D13C3F4@mit.edu>
References: <20061205194606.1CC1D13C3F4@mit.edu>
Message-ID: <3A24BC18-059A-409F-91E8-18E4EBD6644A@mit.edu>
FilterMedia doesn't actually interact with Lucene directly, only
indirectly in that any generated text bitstreams will get picked up
later when "index-all" is called. So, no, running filtermedia will
not solve your too many files open issue.
The current version of /bin/index-all will rebuild your
entire lucene search index (and this will be completely optimized as
welli). The usual suggestion is to run it nightly in a cron job on
your dspace server. if you look in /search and see many many
"segment" files there, this may suggest that your index is not
optimized.
Cheers,
Mark
On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Jose Blanco wrote:
> A day ago I posted that we were getting ?too many files open? error
> and I found this thread today discussing it:
>
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?
> forum_id=39921&max_rows=25&style=flat&viewmonth=200408
>
>
>
> I?m a bit confused as to what I need to do. I have version 1.4 of
> DSpace, I?m not sure what version of Lucene I have. Can some one
> tell me how I can find that out? Do I need to get the latest
> version of Lucene and run ./filter-media with a ?f switch to force
> all items to be re-indexed to create compound files and get rid of
> this error?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Jose
>
> _______________________________________________
> Dspace-general mailing list
> Dspace-general at mit.edu
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
Mark R. Diggory
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DSpace Systems Manager
MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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From blancoj at umich.edu Tue Dec 5 15:36:20 2006
From: blancoj at umich.edu (Jose Blanco)
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:36:20 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] too many open files
In-Reply-To: <3A24BC18-059A-409F-91E8-18E4EBD6644A@mit.edu>
Message-ID: <20061205203832.432ABEAAB4@mit.edu>
Mark:
Thanks for answering this question.
We run index-all nightly, and when I go to the in /search dir this
is what I see:
-bash-3.00$ pwd
/l1/dspace/repository/prod/search
-bash-3.00$ ls -la
total 2102880
drwxr-xr-x 2 dspace dspace 4096 Dec 5 06:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 dspace dspace 4096 Dec 1 10:52 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 4 Dec 5 06:07 deletable
-rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 2151226568 Dec 5 06:07 _s12.cfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 29 Dec 5 06:07 segments
Does this look OK to you?
Thanks!!
_____
From: Mark Diggory [mailto:mdiggory at MIT.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:33 PM
To: Jose Blanco
Cc: dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-general at MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] too many open files
FilterMedia doesn't actually interact with Lucene directly, only indirectly
in that any generated text bitstreams will get picked up later when
"index-all" is called. So, no, running filtermedia will not solve your too
many files open issue.
The current version of /bin/index-all will rebuild your entire
lucene search index (and this will be completely optimized as welli). The
usual suggestion is to run it nightly in a cron job on your dspace server.
if you look in /search and see many many "segment" files there, this
may suggest that your index is not optimized.
Cheers,
Mark
On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Jose Blanco wrote:
A day ago I posted that we were getting "too many files open" error and I
found this thread today discussing it:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=39921
&max_rows=25&style=flat&viewmonth=200408
I'm a bit confused as to what I need to do. I have version 1.4 of DSpace,
I'm not sure what version of Lucene I have. Can some one tell me how I can
find that out? Do I need to get the latest version of Lucene and run
./filter-media with a -f switch to force all items to be re-indexed to
create compound files and get rid of this error?
Thanks!
Jose
_______________________________________________
Dspace-general mailing list
Dspace-general at mit.edu
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
Mark R. Diggory
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DSpace Systems Manager
MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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From mdiggory at MIT.EDU Tue Dec 5 15:41:54 2006
From: mdiggory at MIT.EDU (Mark Diggory)
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:41:54 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] too many open files
In-Reply-To: <3A24BC18-059A-409F-91E8-18E4EBD6644A@mit.edu>
References: <20061205194606.1CC1D13C3F4@mit.edu>
<3A24BC18-059A-409F-91E8-18E4EBD6644A@mit.edu>
Message-ID:
Sorry, that was an erronious statement I just made:
Filter-Media does actually call the same code that index-all is
calling, but you can turn this off at the command line by adding the
option "-n".
Note, if you are running index-all and filter-media consecutively
every night, you want to either just run filter-media or run filter-
media -n and then run index-all.
Either way, it is a reindexing of the Lucene indexes that could help
yu with this issue.
-Mark
On Dec 5, 2006, at 3:32 PM, Mark Diggory wrote:
> FilterMedia doesn't actually interact with Lucene directly, only
> indirectly in that any generated text bitstreams will get picked up
> later when "index-all" is called. So, no, running filtermedia will
> not solve your too many files open issue.
>
> The current version of /bin/index-all will rebuild your
> entire lucene search index (and this will be completely optimized
> as welli). The usual suggestion is to run it nightly in a cron job
> on your dspace server. if you look in /search and see many
> many "segment" files there, this may suggest that your index is not
> optimized.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
>
> On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Jose Blanco wrote:
>
>> A day ago I posted that we were getting ?too many files open?
>> error and I found this thread today discussing it:
>>
>>
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?
>> forum_id=39921&max_rows=25&style=flat&viewmonth=200408
>>
>>
>>
>> I?m a bit confused as to what I need to do. I have version 1.4 of
>> DSpace, I?m not sure what version of Lucene I have. Can some one
>> tell me how I can find that out? Do I need to get the latest
>> version of Lucene and run ./filter-media with a ?f switch to force
>> all items to be re-indexed to create compound files and get rid of
>> this error?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>> Jose
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Dspace-general mailing list
>> Dspace-general at mit.edu
>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
>
> Mark R. Diggory
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> DSpace Systems Manager
> MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Dspace-general mailing list
> Dspace-general at mit.edu
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
Mark R. Diggory
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DSpace Systems Manager
MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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From mdiggory at MIT.EDU Tue Dec 5 15:43:44 2006
From: mdiggory at MIT.EDU (Mark Diggory)
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:43:44 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] [Dspace-tech] too many open files
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID:
Yes, that looks like an optimized search index. An unoptimized index
would many more files in it.
-Mark
On Dec 5, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Jose Blanco wrote:
> Mark:
>
>
>
> Thanks for answering this question.
>
>
>
> We run index-all nightly, and when I go to the in /search
> dir this is what I see:
>
>
>
> -bash-3.00$ pwd
>
> /l1/dspace/repository/prod/search
>
> -bash-3.00$ ls -la
>
> total 2102880
>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 dspace dspace 4096 Dec 5 06:07 .
>
> drwxr-xr-x 13 dspace dspace 4096 Dec 1 10:52 ..
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 4 Dec 5 06:07 deletable
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 2151226568 Dec 5 06:07 _s12.cfs
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 29 Dec 5 06:07 segments
>
>
>
> Does this look OK to you?
>
>
>
> Thanks!!
>
>
>
> From: Mark Diggory [mailto:mdiggory at MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:33 PM
> To: Jose Blanco
> Cc: dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-general at MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] too many open files
>
>
>
> FilterMedia doesn't actually interact with Lucene directly, only
> indirectly in that any generated text bitstreams will get picked up
> later when "index-all" is called. So, no, running filtermedia will
> not solve your too many files open issue.
>
>
>
> The current version of /bin/index-all will rebuild your
> entire lucene search index (and this will be completely optimized
> as welli). The usual suggestion is to run it nightly in a cron job
> on your dspace server. if you look in /search and see many
> many "segment" files there, this may suggest that your index is not
> optimized.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Jose Blanco wrote:
>
>
>
>
> A day ago I posted that we were getting ?too many files open? error
> and I found this thread today discussing it:
>
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?
> forum_id=39921&max_rows=25&style=flat&viewmonth=200408
>
>
>
> I?m a bit confused as to what I need to do. I have version 1.4 of
> DSpace, I?m not sure what version of Lucene I have. Can some one
> tell me how I can find that out? Do I need to get the latest
> version of Lucene and run ./filter-media with a ?f switch to force
> all items to be re-indexed to create compound files and get rid of
> this error?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Jose
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> Dspace-general mailing list
>
> Dspace-general at mit.edu
>
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
>
>
>
> Mark R. Diggory
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> DSpace Systems Manager
>
> MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
>
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: mdiggory at MIT.EDU (Mark Diggory)
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:47:19 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] [Dspace-tech] too many open files
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <5A737E3A-01D9-47AA-B238-3FA1FF921A88@mit.edu>
Jose,
This may have much more to do with the number of available inodes on
that disk than on the search or filter media, you might do something
like "df -i" and post its result to this thread.
-Mark
On Dec 5, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Jose Blanco wrote:
> Mark:
>
>
>
> Thanks for answering this question.
>
>
>
> We run index-all nightly, and when I go to the in /search
> dir this is what I see:
>
>
>
> -bash-3.00$ pwd
>
> /l1/dspace/repository/prod/search
>
> -bash-3.00$ ls -la
>
> total 2102880
>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 dspace dspace 4096 Dec 5 06:07 .
>
> drwxr-xr-x 13 dspace dspace 4096 Dec 1 10:52 ..
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 4 Dec 5 06:07 deletable
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 2151226568 Dec 5 06:07 _s12.cfs
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 29 Dec 5 06:07 segments
>
>
>
> Does this look OK to you?
>
>
>
> Thanks!!
>
>
>
> From: Mark Diggory [mailto:mdiggory at MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:33 PM
> To: Jose Blanco
> Cc: dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-general at MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] too many open files
>
>
>
> FilterMedia doesn't actually interact with Lucene directly, only
> indirectly in that any generated text bitstreams will get picked up
> later when "index-all" is called. So, no, running filtermedia will
> not solve your too many files open issue.
>
>
>
> The current version of /bin/index-all will rebuild your
> entire lucene search index (and this will be completely optimized
> as welli). The usual suggestion is to run it nightly in a cron job
> on your dspace server. if you look in /search and see many
> many "segment" files there, this may suggest that your index is not
> optimized.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Jose Blanco wrote:
>
>
>
>
> A day ago I posted that we were getting ?too many files open? error
> and I found this thread today discussing it:
>
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?
> forum_id=39921&max_rows=25&style=flat&viewmonth=200408
>
>
>
> I?m a bit confused as to what I need to do. I have version 1.4 of
> DSpace, I?m not sure what version of Lucene I have. Can some one
> tell me how I can find that out? Do I need to get the latest
> version of Lucene and run ./filter-media with a ?f switch to force
> all items to be re-indexed to create compound files and get rid of
> this error?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Jose
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> Dspace-general mailing list
>
> Dspace-general at mit.edu
>
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
>
>
>
> Mark R. Diggory
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> DSpace Systems Manager
>
> MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
>
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
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From blancoj at umich.edu Tue Dec 5 15:45:43 2006
From: blancoj at umich.edu (Jose Blanco)
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:45:43 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] [Dspace-tech] too many open files
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID: <20061205204755.C860D1024D2@mit.edu>
So why do you think we are getting "too many open files" error? It seems to
be happening when google is crawling our site. It also seems like this
error message has to do with the kernel limits on the number of open files,
which by default is 1024 - which should be enough, no? And we do just run
./filter-media nightly.
Thanks for you thoughts on this.
_____
From: dspace-tech-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:dspace-tech-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mark Diggory
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:44 PM
To: Jose Blanco
Cc: dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-general at MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] too many open files
Yes, that looks like an optimized search index. An unoptimized index would
many more files in it.
-Mark
On Dec 5, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Jose Blanco wrote:
Mark:
Thanks for answering this question.
We run index-all nightly, and when I go to the in /search dir this
is what I see:
-bash-3.00$ pwd
/l1/dspace/repository/prod/search
-bash-3.00$ ls -la
total 2102880
drwxr-xr-x 2 dspace dspace 4096 Dec 5 06:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 dspace dspace 4096 Dec 1 10:52 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 4 Dec 5 06:07 deletable
-rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 2151226568 Dec 5 06:07 _s12.cfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 29 Dec 5 06:07 segments
Does this look OK to you?
Thanks!!
_____
From: Mark Diggory [mailto:mdiggory at MIT.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:33 PM
To: Jose Blanco
Cc: dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-general at MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] too many open files
FilterMedia doesn't actually interact with Lucene directly, only indirectly
in that any generated text bitstreams will get picked up later when
"index-all" is called. So, no, running filtermedia will not solve your too
many files open issue.
The current version of /bin/index-all will rebuild your entire
lucene search index (and this will be completely optimized as welli). The
usual suggestion is to run it nightly in a cron job on your dspace server.
if you look in /search and see many many "segment" files there, this
may suggest that your index is not optimized.
Cheers,
Mark
On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Jose Blanco wrote:
A day ago I posted that we were getting "too many files open" error and I
found this thread today discussing it:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=39921
&max_rows=25&style=flat&viewmonth=200408
I'm a bit confused as to what I need to do. I have version 1.4 of DSpace,
I'm not sure what version of Lucene I have. Can some one tell me how I can
find that out? Do I need to get the latest version of Lucene and run
./filter-media with a -f switch to force all items to be re-indexed to
create compound files and get rid of this error?
Thanks!
Jose
_______________________________________________
Dspace-general mailing list
Dspace-general at mit.edu
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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From blancoj at umich.edu Tue Dec 5 15:47:29 2006
From: blancoj at umich.edu (Jose Blanco)
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:47:29 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] [Dspace-tech] too many open files
In-Reply-To: <5A737E3A-01D9-47AA-B238-3FA1FF921A88@mit.edu>
Message-ID: <20061205204939.801A9EAE68@mit.edu>
Here are the results:
-bash-3.00$ df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 128520 27978 100542 22% /
/dev/sda1 64256 47 64209 1% /boot
/dev/sda8 5013504 10060 5003444 1% /l
/dev/sdb1 60325888 1881916 58443972 4% /l1
/dev/sdc1 58621952 119448 58502504 1% /l2
none 223864 1 223863 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda5 262144 176 261968 1% /tmp
/dev/sda2 3074176 107051 2967125 4% /usr
/dev/sda3 262144 1278 260866 1% /var
AFS 9000000 0 9000000 0% /afs
_____
From: Mark Diggory [mailto:mdiggory at MIT.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:47 PM
To: Jose Blanco
Cc: dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-general at MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] too many open files
Jose,
This may have much more to do with the number of available inodes on that
disk than on the search or filter media, you might do something like "df -i"
and post its result to this thread.
-Mark
On Dec 5, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Jose Blanco wrote:
Mark:
Thanks for answering this question.
We run index-all nightly, and when I go to the in /search dir this
is what I see:
-bash-3.00$ pwd
/l1/dspace/repository/prod/search
-bash-3.00$ ls -la
total 2102880
drwxr-xr-x 2 dspace dspace 4096 Dec 5 06:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 dspace dspace 4096 Dec 1 10:52 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 4 Dec 5 06:07 deletable
-rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 2151226568 Dec 5 06:07 _s12.cfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 29 Dec 5 06:07 segments
Does this look OK to you?
Thanks!!
_____
From: Mark Diggory [mailto:mdiggory at MIT.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:33 PM
To: Jose Blanco
Cc: dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-general at MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] too many open files
FilterMedia doesn't actually interact with Lucene directly, only indirectly
in that any generated text bitstreams will get picked up later when
"index-all" is called. So, no, running filtermedia will not solve your too
many files open issue.
The current version of /bin/index-all will rebuild your entire
lucene search index (and this will be completely optimized as welli). The
usual suggestion is to run it nightly in a cron job on your dspace server.
if you look in /search and see many many "segment" files there, this
may suggest that your index is not optimized.
Cheers,
Mark
On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Jose Blanco wrote:
A day ago I posted that we were getting "too many files open" error and I
found this thread today discussing it:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=39921
&max_rows=25&style=flat&viewmonth=200408
I'm a bit confused as to what I need to do. I have version 1.4 of DSpace,
I'm not sure what version of Lucene I have. Can some one tell me how I can
find that out? Do I need to get the latest version of Lucene and run
./filter-media with a -f switch to force all items to be re-indexed to
create compound files and get rid of this error?
Thanks!
Jose
_______________________________________________
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Dspace-general at mit.edu
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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From mdiggory at MIT.EDU Tue Dec 5 16:03:00 2006
From: mdiggory at MIT.EDU (Mark Diggory)
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:03:00 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] [Dspace-tech] too many open files
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <8E63BC2E-3AFC-449F-9BC6-32C51400BB7E@mit.edu>
I'm going to stop duel posting to both lists in my next email and
just post to dspace-tech for this issue.
So you have lots of inodes for your filesystems, the next big
question is. How many are you allocating for open files? Which has
allot to do with which kernel/O.S. your running. Can you post more
detail on your Operating System?
-Mark
On Dec 5, 2006, at 3:47 PM, Jose Blanco wrote:
> Here are the results:
>
>
>
> -bash-3.00$ df -i
>
> Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
>
> /dev/sda7 128520 27978 100542 22% /
>
> /dev/sda1 64256 47 64209 1% /boot
>
> /dev/sda8 5013504 10060 5003444 1% /l
>
> /dev/sdb1 60325888 1881916 58443972 4% /l1
>
> /dev/sdc1 58621952 119448 58502504 1% /l2
>
> none 223864 1 223863 1% /dev/shm
>
> /dev/sda5 262144 176 261968 1% /tmp
>
> /dev/sda2 3074176 107051 2967125 4% /usr
>
> /dev/sda3 262144 1278 260866 1% /var
>
> AFS 9000000 0 9000000 0% /afs
>
>
>
> From: Mark Diggory [mailto:mdiggory at MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:47 PM
> To: Jose Blanco
> Cc: dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-general at MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] too many open files
>
>
>
> Jose,
>
>
>
> This may have much more to do with the number of available inodes
> on that disk than on the search or filter media, you might do
> something like "df -i" and post its result to this thread.
>
>
>
> -Mark
>
>
>
> On Dec 5, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Jose Blanco wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Mark:
>
>
>
> Thanks for answering this question.
>
>
>
> We run index-all nightly, and when I go to the in /search
> dir this is what I see:
>
>
>
> -bash-3.00$ pwd
>
> /l1/dspace/repository/prod/search
>
> -bash-3.00$ ls -la
>
> total 2102880
>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 dspace dspace 4096 Dec 5 06:07 .
>
> drwxr-xr-x 13 dspace dspace 4096 Dec 1 10:52 ..
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 4 Dec 5 06:07 deletable
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 2151226568 Dec 5 06:07 _s12.cfs
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dspace dspace 29 Dec 5 06:07 segments
>
>
>
> Does this look OK to you?
>
>
>
> Thanks!!
>
>
>
> From: Mark Diggory [mailto:mdiggory at MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:33 PM
> To: Jose Blanco
> Cc: dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-general at MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] too many open files
>
>
>
> FilterMedia doesn't actually interact with Lucene directly, only
> indirectly in that any generated text bitstreams will get picked up
> later when "index-all" is called. So, no, running filtermedia will
> not solve your too many files open issue.
>
>
>
> The current version of /bin/index-all will rebuild your
> entire lucene search index (and this will be completely optimized
> as welli). The usual suggestion is to run it nightly in a cron job
> on your dspace server. if you look in /search and see many
> many "segment" files there, this may suggest that your index is not
> optimized.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Jose Blanco wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> A day ago I posted that we were getting ?too many files open? error
> and I found this thread today discussing it:
>
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?
> forum_id=39921&max_rows=25&style=flat&viewmonth=200408
>
>
>
> I?m a bit confused as to what I need to do. I have version 1.4 of
> DSpace, I?m not sure what version of Lucene I have. Can some one
> tell me how I can find that out? Do I need to get the latest
> version of Lucene and run ./filter-media with a ?f switch to force
> all items to be re-indexed to create compound files and get rid of
> this error?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Jose
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> Dspace-general mailing list
>
> Dspace-general at mit.edu
>
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
>
>
>
> Mark R. Diggory
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> DSpace Systems Manager
>
> MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
>
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
>
>
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From sverre.joki at bibsys.no Wed Dec 6 04:12:51 2006
From: sverre.joki at bibsys.no (Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki)
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:12:51 +0100
Subject: [Dspace-general] End-user documentation
References: 457053F9.1090301@ub.uni-dortmund.de
Message-ID: <45768993.40905@bibsys.no>
Thank you all! We now have some docs to build upon to create the very
non-technical admin documentation.
Sverre Magnus
Claudia J?rgen wrote:
> Hi Sverre Magnus,
>
> maybe you could use the help/collection-admin.html as a starting point
> and build your own docs upon it.
>
> Claudia
>
>
> Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki schrieb:
>> Hi Claudia.
>>
>> I've had a look at the documentation you mention, and this is
>> unfortunately not the documentation we are looking for. Both the "tips &
>> tricks..." and the DSpace Sys Doc are great, but they are intended for
>> the DSpace admin.
>>
>> I was quite uclear about this in my first mail, but what we are looking
>> for, is documentation for the collections administrators. Very
>> non-technical and not about the files, configs, styles etc. Just about:
>> - the use of the DSpace admin interface
>> - what a collections is and what a community is
>> - what a workflow is and how the admins can achieve what they want using
>> them
>> - and how it all works (non-technical of cource).
>>
>>
>> I hope this clarifies things a bit.
>>
>>
>> Sverre Magnus
>>
>>
>> Claudia J?rgen wrote:
>>> Hi Sverre Magnus,
>>>
>>> there is some documentation and additional guides on the wiki:
>>> http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DspaceResources#Documentation_and_Guides
>>> like the
>>> DSpace how-to guide: tips and tricks for managing common DSpace chores
>>> (by Dorothea Salo and Tim Donohue)
>>>
>>> Claudia
>>>
>>>
>>> Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki schrieb:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> We are testing our DSpace installations before we launch them out to
>>>> the users. One of the things that has come up during this test is
>>>> that there should be better help texts, or some kind of introductory
>>>> user documentations for the administrator.
>>>>
>>>> We are looking for a non-technical documentation like "Introduction
>>>> to administrering DSpace" or "Setting up your DSpace communities and
>>>> collections during your lunch break" or something like that.
>>>>
>>>> Is there anyone who has user documentation or anything like this that
>>>> they would like to share?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Sverre Magnus
>>>>
>>
>
--
Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki
BIBSYS
7491 Trondheim
From harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk Thu Dec 7 05:33:35 2006
From: harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Stevan Harnad)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 10:33:35 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Dspace-general] Request Copy feature in DSpace
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Murari wrote:
> We use DSpace software and the feature that you
> indicated in point 4 (request eprint) does not exist on this.
Dear Murari,
Thanks to Eloy Rodrigues at Minho University in Portugal, the EMAIL EPRINTS
REQUEST feature *does* exist for DSpace:
New Request Copy feature in DSpace
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php//RequestCopy
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5297.html
See also:
Two Happy Accidents Demonstrate Power of "Eprint Request" Button
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/167-guid.html
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stevan Harnad
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 4:24 PM
> To: Murari
>
> Dear Murari,
>
> If I may, I would suggest that (1) IISc concentrate on its current and
> forward-going
> research output first, (2) that it adopt the ID/OA policy
> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
> of requiring immediate, *permanent*, deposit of the full-text of the
> author's final,
> peer-reviewed, accepted draft ("postprint" -- not the publisher's PDF)
> and (3) set access as Closed Access (CA) unless the journal is one of the
> 69% of
> journals that have already agreed to setting access immediately as OA, and
> (4) use the EPrints software's REQUEST EPRINT feature to tide over
> individual
> user needs during any provisional CA period
> http://www.eprints.org/news/features/request_button.php
>
> Explain to IIsc researchers what OA is, what it is for, why the postprint,
> not
> the PDF, is the default option, and why the access should be permanent.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Stevan Harnad
From wroldfie at library.uwaterloo.ca Thu Dec 7 14:49:56 2006
From: wroldfie at library.uwaterloo.ca (wroldfie)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:49:56 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Item Mapping Authorization Problem
Message-ID: <000001c71a38$e20d6d50$2b3a6181@wroldfie>
I am attempting to setup authorization for a group to map items to another
collection. The documentation says that if the eperson is in the
COLLECTION_ADMIN group for that collection they have permission to edit,
withdraw or map items into the collection. The group I am trying to
authorize has admin privileges on both the source and destination
collections but they keep getting a message after performing the mapping
task saying that they do not have permission to perform the task they were
attempting.
As super user I have no trouble so the mapping process is working. Is there
something I am missing?
Bill
P.S. We have just gone live with electronic theses submission (which is now
mandatory) and as quick a response would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
William Oldfield
Networked Information Research Associate
University of Waterloo Library
519-888-4567 Ext 32461
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From wroldfie at library.uwaterloo.ca Thu Dec 7 15:21:07 2006
From: wroldfie at library.uwaterloo.ca (wroldfie)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 15:21:07 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Item Mapping Authorization Problem -Solved
Message-ID: <000201c71a3d$3d5bebb0$2b3a6181@wroldfie>
Please ignore my previous message. I found the log entries for the problem
and noted that it was an "Add" permission that was missing and preventing
the collection administrators from mapping the items. The problem is
solved.
Bill
William Oldfield
Networked Information Research Associate
University of Waterloo Library
519-888-4567 Ext 32461
-----Original Message-----
From: wroldfie [mailto:wroldfie at library.uwaterloo.ca]
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 2:50 PM
To: 'dspace-general at mit.edu'
Subject: Item Mapping Authorization Problem
I am attempting to setup authorization for a group to map items to another
collection. The documentation says that if the eperson is in the
COLLECTION_ADMIN group for that collection they have permission to edit,
withdraw or map items into the collection. The group I am trying to
authorize has admin privileges on both the source and destination
collections but they keep getting a message after performing the mapping
task saying that they do not have permission to perform the task they were
attempting.
As super user I have no trouble so the mapping process is working. Is there
something I am missing?
Bill
P.S. We have just gone live with electronic theses submission (which is now
mandatory) and as quick a response would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
William Oldfield
Networked Information Research Associate
University of Waterloo Library
519-888-4567 Ext 32461
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From scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au Thu Dec 7 19:07:36 2006
From: scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au (Scott Yeadon)
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:07:36 +1100
Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.4.1 released
Message-ID: <4578ACC8.6090702@anu.edu.au>
Dear All,
The DSpace community is pleased to announce the release of DSpace 1.4.1.
This stable release is primarily a bug fix release incorporating
numerous bugs/enhancements. Refer to the CHANGES file within the
distribution for the full list of enhancements.
The documentation for this release is bundled within the package. Note
that the dspace.org site is in the process of being migrated to the
Wiki, so the most up-to-date version of the documentation is only
available within the 1.4.1 distribution.
DSpace 1.4.1 can be downloaded from the files area at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/ or from CVS using the tag
dspace-1_4_1.
Please use the mailing lists available at
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=19984 to provide feedback on this
release.
Those wishing to do development work with DSpace are strongly encouraged
to obtain the source code using CVS. This is very straightforward and a
guide to doing this is available here:
http://wiki.dspace.org/ContributionGuidelines
We would also like to take this opportunity to invite you all to
participate in the DSpace development process. Extra developer
hands are always welcome, but there are other ways you can help:
- Test the system and report bugs
- Provide documentation (for end users and institutions, as well as
technical)
- Provide or update language packs
- Share your deployment experiences
- Donate content and metadata for testing and research
- Share your technical experience and ideas
Please visit the DSpace Wiki to see the various resources and
collaboration tools available to the DSpace community:
http://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceResources
Regards,
The DSpace Committer Group
From Claudia.Juergen at ub.uni-dortmund.de Fri Dec 8 07:04:21 2006
From: Claudia.Juergen at ub.uni-dortmund.de (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Claudia_J=FCrgen?=)
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:04:21 +0100
Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace Call for Translations
Message-ID: <457954C5.5070309@ub.uni-dortmund.de>
Dear all,
first I want to thank all, who took the effort to i18n DSpace.
With 1.4.1 released the existing translations need updating. A list of
changes can be found at the end of this message.
An overview of existing translations can be found on the wiki:
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/I18nSupport#Available_translations_of_Messages.properties
The translations themselves are kept in CVS.
Any new and updated translations are welcome. You may submit these to
the SourceForge tracker system:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=19984&atid=319984
sunny greetings
Claudia J?rgen
DSpace 1.4 to 1.4.1
Messages.properties Changes
New Tags
jsp.dspace-admin.eperson-main.noepersonselected
jsp.dspace-admin.general.eperson
jsp.dspace-admin.license-edit.title
jsp.dspace-admin.license-edit.heading
jsp.dspace-admin.license-edit.description
jsp.dspace-admin.license-edit.edited
jsp.dspace-admin.license-edit.empty
jsp.dspace-admin.news-main.title
jsp.error.invalid-id.type.object
jsp.error.invalid-id.constants.type.0
jsp.error.invalid-id.constants.type.1
jsp.error.invalid-id.constants.type.2
jsp.error.invalid-id.constants.type.3
jsp.error.invalid-id.constants.type.4
jsp.error.invalid-id.constants.type.5
jsp.error.invalid-id.constants.type.6
jsp.error.invalid-id.constants.type.7
jsp.general.goto
jsp.general.home
jsp.general.id
jsp.general.mydspace
jsp.home.feeds
jsp.layout.navbar-admin.editlicense
jsp.login.chooser.title
jsp.tools.edit-item-form.elem0
jsp.tools.itemmap-browse.add
jsp.tools.itemmap-browse.remove
metadata.dc.contributor.author
metadata.dc.contributor.editor
org.dspace.app.webui.jsptag.ItemTag.submitted
org.dspace.app.webui.jsptag.ItemTag.thumbnail
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.FeedServlet.general-feed.description
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.FeedServlet.feed-type.collection
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.FeedServlet.feed-type.community
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.FeedServlet.feed.title
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.FeedServlet.logo.title
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.FeedServlet.search.description
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.FeedServlet.search.name
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.FeedServlet.search.title
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.FeedServlet.search.title.default
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.FeedServlet.notitle
org.dspace.content.Collection.untitled
org.dspace.content.Community.untitled
Changed Tags
jsp.components.contact-info.details
jsp.controlledvocabulary.search.on-page-help.para1
jsp.display-item.copyright
jsp.dspace-admin.wizard-default-item.dcore
jsp.submit.edit-metadata.heading
jsp.submit.edit-metadata.info1
jsp.submit.edit-metadata.info2
jsp.submit.edit-metadata.title
jsp.submit.get-file-format.info7
jsp.submit.initial-questions.heading
jsp.submit.initial-questions.info
jsp.submit.initial-questions.title
jsp.submit.review.info4
jsp.submit.select-collection.none-authorized
jsp.submit.upload-file-list.info2
metadata.dc.identifier.govdoc
org.dspace.app.webui.jsptag.ItemTag.viewlicence
Deleted Tags
jsp.components.contact-info.email
jsp.tools.itemmap-browse.infomsg
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.admin.MetadataFieldRegistryServlet.qualempty
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From kenzie at MIT.EDU Mon Dec 11 18:42:39 2006
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:42:39 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] [Fwd: Open Repositories Conference, Jan 23-26, 2007,
San Antonio]
Message-ID: <457DECEF.2050101@mit.edu>
Note that the early registration deadline for Open Repositories 2007
and the DSpace User Group meeting is coming up soon!
MacKenzie
-------- Original Message --------
*November 30, 2006*
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
*Preview of the Open Repositories Conference 2007, January 23-26,
2007/San Antonio, Texas*
<_http://openrepositories.org/_>
Last January the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
gathered visionaries for the first time in Sydney <_
http://www.apsr.edu.au/Open_Repositories_2006/_> to share information
about how Dspace, Fedora, and Eprints repositories were changing the
nature of scholarly and commercial information communities of practice.
The upcoming Open Repositories Conference will bring user communities
and others a step closer to understanding the pivotal role that
repositories play in the emerging information landscape. Institutions
such as universities, research laboratories, publishers, libraries, and
commercial organizations are creating innovative repository-based
systems that address the entire lifecycle of information-from supporting
the creation and management of digital content, to enabling use, re-use,
and interconnection of information, to ultimately ensuring long-term
preservation and archiving. Open Repositories 2007 (OR07) will bring
global stakeholders together again to discuss the challenges inherent in
the conference tagline, "Achieving Interoperability in an Open World."
What are the policy issues that are implied in an open world? What are
the technical challenges in achieving interoperability across
heterogenesous repositories and related services? How can advanced
repository-based systems enable the collaborative processes around
"e-science" and scholarly communication? What are the challenges in
enabling users to discover and access information across distributed
repositories? What does open access to content mean across cultures?
These are just some of the questions that attendees will ponder during
the three-day conference scheduled for January 23-26, 2007 in San
Antonio, Texas.
Dspace, Fedora, and Eprints User Group meetings will be held on Jan. 23
and 24, followed by combined conference plenary sessions on Jan. 25 and
26. The conference reception and poster session will take place on Jan. 24.
James Hilton, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the
University of Virginia, and Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President for
Technical Computing, Microsoft, will discuss the opportunities and
challenges in making human knowledge accessible and interoperable in an
open world in keynote addresses on January 24 and January 26.
The Conference plenary program focuses on presentations in six
categories that offer new ideas and solutions for online collaborative
science and scholarship, along with insights into how to manage policy
and decisions for the creation and preservation of distributed
institutional knowledge
<_http://openrepositories.org/program/presentations_>.
MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND POLICY
*The ARROW Project at 3 years: Looking Backwards, Aiming Forwards.*
<_ http://arrow.edu.au/_>
Since 2003 Arrow has been funded by the Australian Commonwealth
Department of Education, Science and Training to identify and test
solutions for best institutional repository practices. Andrew Treloar,
Monash University, will offer an analysis of how their objectives have
evolved, views on repository technology then and now, software
development issues, and implementation decisions culled from three years
of practice using Fedora.
*How the Principles and Activities of Digital Curation Guide Repository
Management and Operations
*<_ http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/_>
Leslie Johnson, University of Virginia Library, will share four
overarching principles of digital curation that have been successful in
making it easier to build trusted discovery and delivery services and
tools for the use of digital objects. Principles for Selection,
Principles for the Use of Standards, Principles for Trustworthiness, and
Principles for Preservation and Sustainability are local principles that
have provided a model for the creation of collection development
policies, the identification of service goals for a repository and
related policies and activities.
*CURATOR: Its Developmental Strategy
*<_ http://mitizane.ll.chiba-u.jp/curator/index_e.html_>
How do you enable indexing of Japanese character strings for searching?
This presentation describes practical and strategic approaches adopted
by Japan's first institutional repository launched by a university
library-Chiba University's Repository for Access to Outcome from
Research (CURATOR).
PRESERVATION
*Policy Frameworks for Institutional Repositories
*As repositories begin to federate and interoperate at a large scale,
the inability to express local policies as part of the context of the
digital collections becomes more problematic. MacKenzie Smith, MIT and
Reagan Moore, SDSC, will report on work by the MIT Libraries and the
University of California, San Diego Supercomputer Center on the PLEDGE
project (PoLicy Enforcement in Data Grid Environments). The project is
funded by the US National Archives and Records Administration.
*Using OAI- PMH Resource Harvesting and MPEG- 21 DIDL for Digital
Preservation
*<_ http://www.modoai.org_>
To successfully preserve a web site, its resources must be crawled and
the structure and relationships among the resources must be maintained.
Joan Smith and Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University, propose
involving the web server in the preservation process through "mod_oai",
an Apache module to harvest a web site packaged with its associated
metadata thereby contributing to its long-term preservation.
*CRiB: Preservation Services for Digital Repositories
*<_ http://crib.dsi.uminho.pt/_>
The active lifespan of digital materials is much longer than the
lifetime of individual storage media, hardware and software components,
as well as the formats in which the information is encoded. As hardware
and software become obsolete, digital materials become prisoners of
their own encodings. Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista, and Jose
Carlos Ramalho from the University of Minho, Portugal will present the
CRiB recommendation service that is designed to help institutions
determine optimal migration strategies within a range of choices to
preserve authentic materials.
USER SERVICES AND WORKFLOW
*Making Fedora Easier to Implement with Fez-A Free Open Source Content
Model and Workflow Management Front-end to Fedora
*<_http://sourceforge.net/projects/fez/_>
The University of Queensland, Australia has developed Fez, a
world-leading user-interface and management system for Fedora-based
institutional repositories, which bridges the gap between a repository
and users. Christiaan Kortekaas, Andrew Bennett and Keith Webster will
review this open source software that gives institutions the power to
create a comprehensive repository solution without the hassle.
*Real-time Duplicate and Plagiarism Detection*
<_http://arxiv.org/_ >
While electronic access to documents provides unprecedented opportunity
for plagiarism, it also provides an unprecedented opportunity to
automate the detection of plagiarism. Simeon Warner, Cornell University,
will describe the implementation and the underlying algorithm of a
service to compare the full-text of each new submission against all
existing submissions in real-time used in managing the arXiv.org
repository. ArXiv contains over 390,000 articles, and will grow by more
than 10% in the next year.
*An Ethnographic Study of Institutional Repository Librarians: Their
Experiences of Usability
*<_http://nzdl.sadl.uleth.ca/cgi-bin/library_>
The usability of current repository software and its tools is largely
unknown when it comes to understanding whether they are adequate and
appropriate for the tasks performed by repository managers. Sally Jo
Cunningham, Dave Nichols, Dana McKay and David Bainbridge from the
University of Waikato, New Zealand, will share their observations based
on their ethnographic study of local librarians who support the
inclusion of new material in institutional repositories.
SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0
*Realizing the Role of Digital Repositories in Educational Applications:
Supporting Content and Context
*<_http://teachingboxes.org/_>
DLESE Teaching Boxes are customizable, digital replicas of the
traditional collections that most educators create, store (in boxes),
re-use and improve on during their years of teaching. Huda Khan and
Keith Maull from DLESE: Digital Library for Earth System Education, will
review development of the Teaching Box Builder application and discuss
questions raised with respect to repository integration with real-time
Web 2.0 technologies as well as how this application design provides
support for educators' creation and adaptation of pedagogical content
and context.
* *
*Cross-Repository Semantic Interoperability: the MIT SIMILE Project
*<_http://simile.mit.edu/_>
Many questions are raised as previously unreachable digital content is
found in and among new repositories--is each repository an island or a
separately searchable resource? SIMILE (Semantic Interoperability of
Metadata and Information in Unlike Environments) has developed an
extensive 'tool chain' for gathering and manipulating data assets.
Richard Rodgers and MacKenzie Smith, MIT, will demonstrate how tools
developed by the SIMILE project can be used as powerful instruments for
the federation, discovery, exploration, and curation of metadata.
*The BibApp-Enabling Rapid Repository Population
*<_http://oscp.library.wisc.edu/response.html#libraries_>
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries recently launched the
Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing (OSCP) and uses BibApp
to consolidate campus directory information with citation data gathered
by librarians, departments and research centers into a single online
interface. Eric Larson will describe how BibApp alerts OSCP to content
that may be suitable for fast "mashup" repository ingest. OSCP has
prepared 1,200+ papers for ingest using BibApp.
INTEROPERABILITY
*The OAI Object Re-Use and Exchange (ORE) Initiative
*<_http://www.openarchives.org/ore/_>
There are numerous examples of the need to re-use objects across
repositories in scholarly communication. Carl Lagoze, Cornell University
and Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, will discuss
the ORE (Object Re-Use and Exchange) Initiative that seeks to implement
an interoperable fabric consisting of service interfaces shared across
repositories, and some shared infrastructure. Repository federation
efforts such as aDORe, CORDRA, the Chinese DSpace Federation, DARE, and
Pathways (NSF IIS-0430906) suggest that such object re-use is achievable
and will create the building blocks of a global scholarly communication
federation in which each individual digital object will fuel a variety
of applications.
*Repository Deposit Service Description
*<_http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres.aspx_>
Rachel Heery, Julie Allinson, Jim Downing, Christopher Gutteridge and
Martin Morrey, UKOLN, University of Bath, will update attendees on a
three-year UK program that is developing repository infrastructure aimed
at increasing open access to scholarly material, while improving
management of assets in higher education institutions. This effort is
designed to ensure that the emerging network of JISC (Joint Information
Services Committee) Digital Repositories is well populated with content.
They will present their work towards defining a lightweight Common
Repository Deposit Service Description.
*An Analysis of Digital Repository Scenarios, Use Cases and Workflows
*This presentation will set out the preliminary results of a study for a
cross-section of the diverse repository developments ongoing in the
United Kingdom. To date, over 80 scenarios and 20 use cases have been
collected covering contexts such as: delineating the community
dimensions of learning object repositories, depositing geospatial data,
storing versions of content in a repository, developing metadata
workflow in a laboratory repository holding research data, and adding
digital rights information. Mahendra Mahey, Rachel Heery, Julie Allinson
and Robert John Robertson UKOLN, University of Bath, will present the
methodology developed to collect, compare and analyze scenarios, use
cases and workflows for the identification of common functional internal
components and interactions with external services in the information
landscape.
e-SCIENCE AND e-SCHOLARSHIP
*The Eprints Application Profile: A FRBR Approach to Modeling Repository
Metadata
*Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell, UKOLN, University of
Bath, present recent work on developing a Dublin Core Application
Profile (DCAP) for describing 'scholarly publications' (eprints). They
will explain why the Dublin Core Abstract Model is well suited to
creating descriptions based on entity-relational models such as the
FRBR-based (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) Eprints
data model. The ePrints DCAP highlights the relational nature of the
model underpinning Dublin Core and illustrates that the Dublin Core
Abstract Model can support the representation of complex data describing
multiple entities and their relationships.
*EsciDoc-a Scholarly Information and Communication Platform for the Max
Planck Society
*<_ http://www.escidoc-project.de/homepage.html_>
Digital libraries have become tools for everyday work. But are they
ready for e-Scholarship? Scholarship produces additional types of
information that are not curated by traditional libraries such as
primary data, simulations, informal results, and annotations. Matthias
Razum, FIZ Karlsruhe, will discuss eSciDoc, a joint project of the Max
Planck Society and FIZ Karlsruhe that will create a next-generation
platform for communication and publication in research organizations.
*ChemXSeer: A Chemistry Web Portal for Scientific Literature and Datasets
*ChemXSeer portal is designed to be a hub for research in chemistry by
facilitating search and access to both scientific literature and
experimental datasets, while bridging these information sources in a
unified framework. Levent Bolelli, Xiaonan Lu, Ying Liu, Anuj Jaiswal,
Kun Bai, Isaac Councill, Prasenjit Mitra, James Z. Wang, Karl Mueller,
James Kubicki, Barbara Garrison, Joel Bandstra and C. Lee Giles,
Pennsylvania State University, will present an overview of ChemXSeer, a
portal for academic researchers in environmental chemistry that
integrates scientific literature with experimental, analytical and
simulation result datasets. The hybrid repository of ChemXSeer will be
comprised of information crawled from the web, manual submissions of
scientific documents, and user submitted datasets as well as scientific
documents and metadata provided by major publishers.
*Advance registration for the conference is open until December 22,
2006. More information including an at-a-glance conference schedule and
plenary, keynote and user group session descriptions is available at
<_http://openrepositories.org/_>.*
--
MacKenzie Smith
MIT Libraries
From annamavroudi at yahoo.gr Tue Dec 12 03:53:33 2006
From: annamavroudi at yahoo.gr (anna mavroudi)
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:53:33 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Dspace-general] problem with the installation of dspace 1.4.1
beta1 solved
Message-ID: <20061212085334.83431.qmail@web86802.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
hi all, it seems to me that after the line:
dsrun org.dspace.administer.CreateAdministrator these instructions are also needed:
dsrun org.dspace.browse.InitializeBrowse
dsrun org.dspace.search.DSIndexer
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From Amanda.Nixon at flinders.edu.au Wed Dec 13 18:34:00 2006
From: Amanda.Nixon at flinders.edu.au (Amanda Nixon)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:04:00 +1030
Subject: [Dspace-general] Moving Communities
Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.1.20061214100006.049dd230@post.flinders.edu.au>
Dear Colleagues,
Has anyone done any work on moving communities in DSpace?
We have an established DSpace repository, but are looking to restructure
our communities. Any help or suggestions would be most appreciated.
Kind regards,
Amanda
Amanda Nixon
Flinders Academic Commons Project Officer
Flinders University Library
Ph. 8201 3514 (Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays)
From stephen.thomas at adelaide.edu.au Wed Dec 13 18:44:34 2006
From: stephen.thomas at adelaide.edu.au (Steve Thomas)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:14:34 +1030
Subject: [Dspace-general] Moving Communities
In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.1.20061214100006.049dd230@post.flinders.edu.au>
Message-ID: <5f9sbo$ul8da@tosh-private.services.adelaide.edu.au>
Amanda,
There's something called the "Community Filiator" which may help -- or it
may only be useful for moving collections between communities. It's in the
documentation, in the last section I think.
Steve
Stephen Thomas,
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> From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-
> bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Amanda Nixon
> Sent: Thursday, 14 December 2006 10:04 am
> To: dspace-general at mit.edu
> Subject: [Dspace-general] Moving Communities
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Has anyone done any work on moving communities in DSpace?
>
> We have an established DSpace repository, but are looking to restructure
> our communities. Any help or suggestions would be most appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
> Amanda
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From galloway at ischool.utexas.edu Thu Dec 14 12:27:21 2006
From: galloway at ischool.utexas.edu (Pat Galloway)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:27:21 -0600
Subject: [Dspace-general] Moving Communities
References:
Message-ID: <45818979.1030405@ischool.utexas.edu>
The Community Filiator does indeed work to move communities and
subcommunities for restructuring, and they take their collections along
with them. Here's an example that we used to restructure communities on
our pacer.ischool.utexas.edu DSpace (which at that point was a 1.2
installation):
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1) Restructuring communities
The tutorials archiving group wanted to change the relationship of three
collections and two communities to the community structure now extant.
Below is the present state,
* = community or subcommunity, # = collection, and the handles and
Database IDs are included after each item (note that there are
collections under both of the last two subcommunities, but I have only
listed the ones we need to move):
*School of Information Technology Services (123456789/334, DB=23)
*School of Information Tutorials Project (2081/1840, DB=82)
*School of Information Tutorials (123456789/335, DB=24)
#2005 Archiving Project Documentation (123456789/1190, DB=169)
#2006 Archiving Project Documentation (123456789/1329, DB=236)
#Tutorial Production Guidelines (123456789/434, DB=115)
*School of Information Tutorials Documentation (2081/1572, DB=77)
The desired outcome involves moving both communities and collections.
First the communities: that?s the easy part (plus they take their
collections along with them). What we want to achieve in the first step is:
*School of Information Technology Services (DB=23)
*School of Information Tutorials Project (DB=82)
*School of Information Tutorials (DB=24)
#2005 Archiving Project Documentation
#2006 Archiving Project Documentation
#Tutorial Production Guidelines
*School of Information Tutorials Documentation (DB=77)
Which means we need to move DB 24 and DB 77 from being the children of
DB 23 to being the children of DB 82. First remove the relationship and
orphan the subcommunities from subcommunity 23:
dsrun org.dspace.administer.CommunityFiliator ?r ?p 23 ?c 24
dsrun org.dspace.administer.CommunityFiliator ?r ?p 23 ?c 77
Then establish the new relationship and adopt them under subcommunity 82:
dsrun org.dspace.administer.CommunityFiliator ?s ?p 82 ?c 24
dsrun org.dspace.administer.CommunityFiliator ?s ?p 82 ?c 77
Next we need to move the three listed collections now under subcommunity
24, which requires a database command. What we want to achieve here is
to move three of the collections now under DB24 to place them under DB77:
*School of Information Technology Services (DB=23)
*School of Information Tutorials Project (DB=82)
*School of Information Tutorials (DB=24)
*School of Information Tutorials Documentation (DB=77)
#2005 Archiving Project Documentation (DB=169)
#2006 Archiving Project Documentation (DB=236)
#Tutorial Production Guidelines (DB=115)
The SQL to achieve this requires two updates for each change:
update community2collection set community_id=77 where community_id=24
and collection_id=169;
update communities2item set community_id=77 where item_id in (select
item_id from item where owning_collection=169);
update community2collection set community_id=77 where community_id=24
and collection_id=236;
update communities2item set community_id=77 where item_id in (select
item_id from item where owning_collection=236);
update community2collection set community_id=77 where community_id=24
and collection_id=115;
update communities2item set community_id=77 where item_id in (select
item_id from item where owning_collection=115);
Finally, you have to reindex everything: /dspace/bin/index-all
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hope this helps.
Pat Galloway
School of Information
University of Texas at Austin
From joaosantos.ue at gmail.com Fri Dec 15 09:16:52 2006
From: joaosantos.ue at gmail.com (Joao Santos)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:16:52 +0000
Subject: [Dspace-general] Two instances of Dspace
Message-ID: <437e76240612150616g7749ac10yca1e97f4f0a4cca8@mail.gmail.com>
Hi!
Can we have two instances of Dspace in same machine? How do we install the
second instance?
Thanks!
Jo?o Santos
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From richard.d.jones at imperial.ac.uk Fri Dec 15 11:22:11 2006
From: richard.d.jones at imperial.ac.uk (Richard Jones)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:22:11 +0000
Subject: [Dspace-general] Two instances of Dspace
In-Reply-To: <437e76240612150616g7749ac10yca1e97f4f0a4cca8@mail.gmail.com>
References: <437e76240612150616g7749ac10yca1e97f4f0a4cca8@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4582CBB3.5000905@imperial.ac.uk>
Hi Jo?o
> Can we have two instances of Dspace in same machine? How do we install
> the second instance?
No problem at all. Either deploy the WAR files for your second instance
under different names (e.g. dspace2.war dspace2-oai.war) (being sure to
keep track of which config goes with which instance, and which live
directory is which), or deploy 2 instances of tomcat running on
different ports (e.g. 8080 and 8180)
Cheers,
Richard
From galloway at ischool.utexas.edu Fri Dec 15 12:46:04 2006
From: galloway at ischool.utexas.edu (Pat Galloway)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:46:04 -0600
Subject: [Dspace-general] Moving Communities
References:
Message-ID: <4582DF5C.2020505@ischool.utexas.edu>
I apologize for the question marks in my post on moving communities,
inherited from a word-processed file. They should each have been single
hyphens for the command line short form.
Pat Galloway
From teale003 at umn.edu Fri Dec 15 13:20:49 2006
From: teale003 at umn.edu (Brad Teale)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:20:49 -0600
Subject: [Dspace-general] To Handle or not?
Message-ID: <4582E781.4010005@umn.edu>
All,
We are going through the process of creating our Dspace instances, and
are considering whether or not to use a Handle Server. I'm currently
the voice of opposition for a few reasons, but I'm looking for good
technical reasons to use Handle.
My reasons for not using Handle are:
- The idea of Handle is to use a URN, however, the URN RFC (2141) has
not gained traction since its creation in May 1997 and browsers don't
support URN for the most part.
- Handle/CNRI hasn't created a URN namespace (hdl:) for itself as of
2006-12-01 (http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces). Do they
not believe in the URN specification?
- The Handle server itself acts as a more complicated DNS server. Why
add an extra layer over a system that works well. When will we add a
system on top of Handle?
- DNS maps easy to remember names with hard to remember numbers. Handle
uses numbers to identify unique institutions. If people have a hard
time remembering numbers, why would I choose something like
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34898 for my system? Or when will Handle
have a DNSish syntax like http://hdl.handle.net/mit.dspace/34898 or
something similar? If it already exists why not just use
http://dspace.mit.edu/34898?
- When you go to a handle URL that doesn't exist (possibly moved or
removed), your system doesn't know. You get Handle's 404 page, not the
institution that hosts the data, so how are you informed of these requests?
- Since Handle maps URNs to URLs, how much time does it take to maintain
another DNSish system?
- Persistent URI/URLs are a business problem not a technology problem.
What happens when handle.net moves or changes its name? Does CNRI
guarantee that will _never_ happen?
I hope someone can give me some technological reasons to use Handle.
Thanks,
-Brad
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Digital Library Development Lab University of Minnesota Libraries
teale003 at umn.edu 612-625-0473
From teale003 at UMN.EDU Fri Dec 15 16:19:17 2006
From: teale003 at UMN.EDU (Brad Teale)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:19:17 -0600
Subject: [Dspace-general] [Dspace-tech] To Handle or not?
In-Reply-To:
References: <4582E781.4010005@umn.edu>
Message-ID: <45831155.9020107@umn.edu>
Hi Sean,
I'm interested in identifier systems because it's something people do
everyday without thought. For example, if I had the title or isbn (URN)
of a book and went to a library, I would search the stacks using a
binary type search and the book's catalog number (URL). I find the
book, make a note of where I found it and leave. Now if I go back a
year later, would I expect the library to store the book in the exact
same location? If that book isn't in the same location, what would I
do...I'd run another search and go through the process again. If the
book has moved collections, or been dropped entirely I would cast a
wider search net.
Now, in the digital world, why wouldn't we handle this in the same
manner? We just seem to be over complicating a situation that exists in
both worlds. Maybe it can be solved easier in the digital world, but I
don't see that happening... At lease not yet.
More comments in line below:
On 12/15/2006 02:12 PM, Sean Reilly wrote:
[snip]
>> - The idea of Handle is to use a URN, however, the URN RFC (2141) has
>> not gained traction since its creation in May 1997 and browsers don't
>> support URN for the most part.
>
>
> I think RFC 3986 (URI re-specification) attempts to define any URI that
> is used as a name (as opposed to a location) as a URN. I can't say if
> the URN crowd agrees with that, but that would mean that hdl: URI
> schemes would be classified as a URN even if it wasn't under the urn:
> namespace. I agree that URN hasn't really caught on. I only know of
> one native URN resolver and it has not been publicly released to my
> knowledge.
I haven't really looked at RFC 3986, but will give it one now.
[snip]
>> - The Handle server itself acts as a more complicated DNS server. Why
>> add an extra layer over a system that works well. When will we add a
>> system on top of Handle?
>
>
> The Handle service is a separate parallel system to DNS that was
> designed with different intentions, restrictions, and capabilities. It
> was initially designed to offer a (relatively) flat namespace, more
> flexible data types, extreme scalability, security, and the ability to
> administer handles on an individual basis (as opposed to a sysadmin
> updating a zone file and restarting the server).
>
> The handle system is designed to identify fine-grained digital objects
> and has a modern architecture appropriate to that usage.
What about communities, collections, etc? I know that handle is
supposed to match a handle to a digital object/item. However, can that
item be a Dspace community? Can a Handle server take this request?
I've run a few queries and haven't been able to get at anything other
than items. Everything else comes back with a 404 Handle error.
I would imagine that based on current functionality of other resolver
systems, that stripping a '/identifier' would take me up one level or to
the top, yet Handle quietly fails...Handle gets the error, not the
institution.
>> - DNS maps easy to remember names with hard to remember numbers. Handle
>> uses numbers to identify unique institutions. If people have a hard
>> time remembering numbers, why would I choose something like
>> http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34898 for my system? Or when will Handle
>> have a DNSish syntax like http://hdl.handle.net/mit.dspace/34898 or
>> something similar? If it already exists why not just use
>> http://dspace.mit.edu/34898?
>
>
> Part of the purpose of using numbers is to avoid embedding semantics in
> the identifier itself, such as the owner of an object or name of a
> collection. This is because owners and administration change (and
> change names). It's not likely that MIT will change their name anytime
> soon, but why would you put the name of the repository software
> (mit.dspace/...) in every document identifier? If that digital object
> were moved to another repository system or to another hosting
> organization the mit.dspace part would be a bit misleading.
>
> My argument for using numbers instead of more readable names is that
> people don't need to remember them - computers do. You are free to use
> readable names in the local part (after the slash) of handle
> identifiers, but issuing readable handle prefixes produces more
> problems (trademark, squatting, etc) than it solves.
I agree that numeric identifiers are better, however, people need to
remember URIs just as much as computers. While I do have portable
computing devices, I don't carry them everywhere. If I'm somewhere and
need a source that isn't in my PDA, laptop or written down, I can
usually remember it because of the URI. I think that using numbers,
while good for machines, is going to hurt the real purpose of the
Handle's mission...linking users to the digital objects they need.
BTW, I noticed many of CNRI documents have easy to remember handles:
http://hdl.handle.net/cnri.dlib/tn95-01
Couldn't help myself... ;P
>> - When you go to a handle URL that doesn't exist (possibly moved or
>> removed), your system doesn't know. You get Handle's 404 page, not the
>> institution that hosts the data, so how are you informed of these
>> requests?
>
>
> We have a new mechanism (not yet fully documented/publicized) that
> allows namespace information to be associated with a handle prefix.
> This info includes contact email address and other bits that can direct
> users of the handle proxy (http://hdl.handle.net) to the person
> responsible for the namespace of the identifier that failed to
> resolve. For an example, try nonexistenthandle> and check the "contact us" address which has been
> changed for the 200 prefix.
This requires user interaction. Most users don't submit emails like
this. This should be redirected to the institution so they can use the
exiting Apache/Tomcat logs to find these errors. We should not have to
rely on a user telling us separately from their request that there is a
bad link out there. In many instances, I've written 404 error pages to
give a best guess for the object they were looking for, or sent them to
a search page to find it themselves.
The Handle method leaves a disconnect between the user looking for the
item and the host who may have the item.
[snip]
Thanks and hope to hear more.
-Brad
--
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Digital Library Development Lab University of Minnesota Libraries
teale003 at umn.edu 612-625-0473
From uchijima at ad.kanazawa-u.ac.jp Sun Dec 17 20:47:44 2006
From: uchijima at ad.kanazawa-u.ac.jp (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCRmJFZz0oGyhK?=
=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCPHkbKEI=?=)
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:47:44 +0900
Subject: [Dspace-general] A question on using handle ID
Message-ID: <200612180147.AA02905@alib66.ad.kanazawa-u.ac.jp>
Hi, all
We had already set up a repository using DSpace (http://dspace.lib.kanazawa-u.ac.jp:8080/
dspace) on our campus. But, one department in my university are going to own a new repository
with DSpace on another server to start an e-learning repository.
In that case, is it better to get another Handle name to operate two repositories in one
campus, or to use one Handle name (we've already got it for the library repository above)
and use it as a parent name for several departments repositories in one university?
I would appreciate if someone could answer my basic question. Thank you.
regards,
Hideki Uchijima
Kanazawa University Library
mail:uchijima at ad.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
phone:+81-76-264-5217
university repository http://dspace.lib.kanazawa-u.ac.jp:8080/dspace
From dsalo at gmu.edu Mon Dec 18 10:32:05 2006
From: dsalo at gmu.edu (Dorothea Salo)
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:32:05 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace for e-theses
Message-ID: <4586B475.2050808@gmu.edu>
Of interest to those using DSpace for ETDs:
.
Some of the technical concerns in this paper have been addressed, but the
criticism of DSpace's search capabilities is still quite relevant.
Dorothea
--
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(703)993-3742 dsalo at gmu.edu
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From afonso at cpd.ufrgs.br Mon Dec 18 12:07:09 2006
From: afonso at cpd.ufrgs.br (Afonso Comba de Araujo Neto)
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:07:09 -0200
Subject: [Dspace-general] RES: DSpace for e-theses
In-Reply-To: <4586B475.2050808@gmu.edu>
Message-ID: <25D4D9AF49D1CC499C48BDEA79E7B73301F8BA4F@DEUTERIO.ad.ufrgs.br>
It's interesting to notice that they completely missed the fact that
DSpace is an open software, customizable in anyway you chose and their
chosen solution not only costs about thousands of dollars a year, but
probably is something heavily limited in terms of customization. Even if
that's a small detail for them, I'm pretty sure that's not the case for
most of the institutions around the world that chose to use DSpace.
But, anyway, the criticism is technically valid.
Regards,
Afonso Araujo Neto
-----Mensagem original-----
De: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu
[mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] Em nome de Dorothea Salo
Enviada em: segunda-feira, 18 de dezembro de 2006 13:32
Para: Dspace-general at mit.edu
Assunto: [Dspace-general] DSpace for e-theses
Of interest to those using DSpace for ETDs:
.
Some of the technical concerns in this paper have been
addressed, but the
criticism of DSpace's search capabilities is still quite relevant.
Dorothea
--
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From wroldfie at library.uwaterloo.ca Mon Dec 18 13:00:32 2006
From: wroldfie at library.uwaterloo.ca (wroldfie)
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:00:32 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Item Mapping Authorization Problem
Message-ID: <000a01c722ce$6cc585c0$2b3a6181@wroldfie>
I have a requested to add the submitter's full name to the acknowledgement
email once an item has been accepted into the archive. I have looked at the
submit_archive email form (See below) and the relevant portion of the
WorkflowManager.java (See below). I know nothing about java programming.
Could someone show me the changes in these files required to add the
submitter's full name or any easier way to make this happen?
Thanking you in advance.
Bill
********* submit_archive***************
# Item Archived email message
#
# {0} Title of submission
# {1} Name of collection
# {2} handle
#
Subject: UWSpace: Submission Approved and Archived
You submitted: {0}
To collection: {1}
Your submission has been accepted and archived in UWSpace,
and it has been assigned the following identifier:
{2}
Please use this identifier when citing your submission.
Many thanks!
UWSpace
*****************
WorkflowManager.java***************************************
// Get submitter
EPerson ep = i.getSubmitter();
Email email = ConfigurationManager.getEmail("submit_archive");
email.addRecipient(ep.getEmail());
email.addArgument(title);
email.addArgument(coll.getMetadata("name"));
email.addArgument(HandleManager.getCanonicalForm(handle));
email.send();
William Oldfield
Networked Information Research Associate
University of Waterloo Library
519-888-4567 Ext 32461
-----Original Message-----
From: wroldfie [mailto:wroldfie at library.uwaterloo.ca]
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 2:50 PM
To: 'dspace-general at mit.edu'
Subject: Item Mapping Authorization Problem
I am attempting to setup authorization for a group to map items to another
collection. The documentation says that if the eperson is in the
COLLECTION_ADMIN group for that collection they have permission to edit,
withdraw or map items into the collection. The group I am trying to
authorize has admin privileges on both the source and destination
collections but they keep getting a message after performing the mapping
task saying that they do not have permission to perform the task they were
attempting.
As super user I have no trouble so the mapping process is working. Is there
something I am missing?
Bill
P.S. We have just gone live with electronic theses submission (which is now
mandatory) and as quick a response would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
William Oldfield
Networked Information Research Associate
University of Waterloo Library
519-888-4567 Ext 32461
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From stephen.thomas at adelaide.edu.au Mon Dec 18 18:46:40 2006
From: stephen.thomas at adelaide.edu.au (Steve Thomas)
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:16:40 +1030
Subject: [Dspace-general] RES: DSpace for e-theses
In-Reply-To: <25D4D9AF49D1CC499C48BDEA79E7B73301F8BA4F@DEUTERIO.ad.ufrgs.br>
Message-ID: <5f9sbo$vcv53@tosh-private.services.adelaide.edu.au>
I've had only a quick read of this, but the author has made a number of
errors, in my opinion:
1. She's ignored (or wasn't informed about) the customisation capabilities
of DSpace -- additional indexes, changes to item displays etc.
2. She's ignored (or wasn't informed about) the availability of SQL as a
query tool for reporting and the like. Sure, SQL is ugly, but it provides a
powerful option for the sorts of issues she's raised.
3. She's confused DSpace with an administration and reporting tool, which it
hasn't been designed to do. It's a moot point whether DSpace should have
these capabilities, and I guess a topic for future development.
I guess this points to an issue with marketing -- there's obviously some
confusion about what DSpace _is_, and this reflects, IMHO, similar confusion
among the development community.
For me, the key strengths of DSpace are:
1. Free.
2. Open source.
3. Solid database back end with SQL.
4. Support for OAI-PMH harvesting.
5. Simple Web interface.
6. Accessible to search engines (Google etc.) -- not a "dark" archive. (Does
WebGencat allow Google indexing? I only see a search form interface.)
7. Provision for organising content (Communities and Collections). (I'm not
aware of any other repository software that provides this, and while not an
essential, it is proving to be useful here.)
Sure, there are irritations in DSpace (I'd love a Next item button on the
Item display), but it has great strength for what it has been designed to
do.
Steve
Stephen Thomas,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-
> bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Afonso Comba de Araujo Neto
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 December 2006 3:37 am
> To: Dspace-general at mit.edu
> Subject: [Dspace-general] RES: DSpace for e-theses
>
>
>
> It's interesting to notice that they completely missed the fact that
> DSpace is an open software, customizable in anyway you chose and their
> chosen solution not only costs about thousands of dollars a year, but
> probably is something heavily limited in terms of customization. Even if
> that's a small detail for them, I'm pretty sure that's not the case for
> most of the institutions around the world that chose to use DSpace.
>
> But, anyway, the criticism is technically valid.
>
>
> Regards,
> Afonso Araujo Neto
>
>
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu
> [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] Em nome de Dorothea Salo
> Enviada em: segunda-feira, 18 de dezembro de 2006 13:32
> Para: Dspace-general at mit.edu
> Assunto: [Dspace-general] DSpace for e-theses
>
> Of interest to those using DSpace for ETDs:
> .
>
> Some of the technical concerns in this paper have been
> addressed, but the
> criticism of DSpace's search capabilities is still quite relevant.
>
> Dorothea
>
> --
> Dorothea Salo, Digital Repository Services Librarian
> (703)993-3742 dsalo at gmu.edu
> MSN 2FL, Fenwick Library
> George Mason University
> 4400 University Drive, Fairfax VA 22031
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From richard.d.jones at imperial.ac.uk Tue Dec 19 05:50:10 2006
From: richard.d.jones at imperial.ac.uk (Richard Jones)
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:50:10 +0000
Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace for e-theses
In-Reply-To: <4586B475.2050808@gmu.edu>
References: <4586B475.2050808@gmu.edu>
Message-ID: <4587C3E2.3000408@imperial.ac.uk>
Hi Folks,
> Of interest to those using DSpace for ETDs:
> .
>
> Some of the technical concerns in this paper have been addressed, but the
> criticism of DSpace's search capabilities is still quite relevant.
I spent a little time preparing some notes on the specific problems that
are brought up in the Calgary report:
http://chronicles-of-richard.blogspot.com/2006/12/calgary-rejects-dspace-for-e-theses.html
My general conclusion is that this is a lack of information about DSpace
being available readily during evaluation.
Cheers,
--
Richard
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From ssadler at ucalgary.ca Tue Dec 19 11:01:54 2006
From: ssadler at ucalgary.ca (Shawna Sadler)
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:01:54 -0700
Subject: [Dspace-general] Calgary & E-Theses
Message-ID: <45880CF2.908@ucalgary.ca>
Hello everyone,
I'm happy to report that University of Calgary has decided to move
forward with DSpace as the software of choice for the Institutional
Repository as well as the repository for E-Theses.
Lisa Atkinson presented this paper at the E-Theses conference in Quebec
City and received supportive responses to her concerns, so much so, that
she now supports utilizing DSpace, with it's capabilities to be customized.
We are starting our e-theses project in the new year, with Lisa
Atkinson's support and input. Maybe Lisa and I should write a follow-up
paper and present it at the next E-These conference.
Shawna
--
Shawna Sadler
Coordinator, Digital Initiatives
Libraries & Cultural Resources
University of Calgary
Phone: (403) 220-3739
Email: ssadler at ucalgary.ca
From kenzie at MIT.EDU Tue Dec 19 11:57:39 2006
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:57:39 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] Reminder: DSpace User Group meeting and Open
Repositories 2006 registration deadline this Friday!
Message-ID: <45881A03.3000707@mit.edu>
To the DSpace community:
Just a friendly reminder that the early registration deadline for Open
Repositories 2007
and the DSpace User Group meeting is THIS COMING FRIDAY, December 22nd.
After Friday the registration rate will go up $150 so if you're planning
to go, now is the
time to register!
The final programs for the user group meeting and the main conference
are posted
on the conference web site at http://openrepositories.org/ and they look
excellent.
This is going to be a great conference, and I hope to see you all there!
MacKenzie
--
MacKenzie Smith
MIT Libraries
From scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au Tue Dec 19 17:27:49 2006
From: scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au (Scott Yeadon)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:27:49 +1100
Subject: [Dspace-general] Adding submitter name to e-mail (Was Re: Item
Mapping Authorization Problem)
Message-ID: <45886765.8020301@anu.edu.au>
Hi Bill,
All you need to do is add an additional argument to the e-mail and
modify the mail template as follows.
In WorkflowManager.java modify the notifyOfArchive method:
...
...
email.addArgument(title);
email.addArgument(coll.getMetadata("name"));
email.addArgument(HandleManager.getCanonicalForm(handle));
// Add the following line to include the submitter's full name as a
parameter to the e-mail handler class
email.addArgument(ep.getFullName());
...
...
In your submit_archive mail template, this parameter can then be
referenced using the {3} placeholder, for example:
...
...
You submitted: {0}
To collection: {1}
Submitter Name: {3}
Your submission...
...
...
Obviously you also need to rebuild you DSpace war and restart tomcat.
Note that these types of requests should be posted to the dspace-tech
list rather than the general list.
Scott.
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:00:32 -0500
From: "wroldfie"
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Item Mapping Authorization Problem
To:
Message-ID: <000a01c722ce$6cc585c0$2b3a6181 at wroldfie>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
I have a requested to add the submitter's full name to the acknowledgement
email once an item has been accepted into the archive. I have looked at the
submit_archive email form (See below) and the relevant portion of the
WorkflowManager.java (See below). I know nothing about java programming.
Could someone show me the changes in these files required to add the
submitter's full name or any easier way to make this happen?
Thanking you in advance.
Bill
From Rudolph.Scott at iop.kcl.ac.uk Wed Dec 20 06:15:34 2006
From: Rudolph.Scott at iop.kcl.ac.uk (Scott, Rudolph)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:15:34 -0000
Subject: [Dspace-general] Handle links for DSpace
Message-ID:
When an administrator creates a new Community and collection and submits
a new Thesis to it, an e-mail of the submission is approved with the new
handle(ok so far). The problem is at the moment to get the handle to
show information, etc, I have to edit the input_forms.xml in
/dspace/config on our server. I can do this no problem but the library
administrator does not have any UNIX experience to so this.
Is the a way to make Dspace edit the input_forms.xml file automatically
when the thesis is submitted? I think this would be of great benefit to
non IT users who are administrators but don't want to edit files each
time a Thesis is submitted. I would appreciate some feedback on this.
Thanks.
Rudolph Scott
Desktop Support Analyst
Dept of Biostatistics and Computing
Institute Of Psychiatry
Kings College London
De Crespigny Park,
London SE5 8AF
Tel: 020-7848-0135/0539
E-mail: r.scott at iop.kcl.ac.uk
From Rudolph.Scott at iop.kcl.ac.uk Fri Dec 22 06:49:31 2006
From: Rudolph.Scott at iop.kcl.ac.uk (Scott, Rudolph)
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:49:31 -0000
Subject: [Dspace-general] The handle link for a submitted document
Message-ID:
At the moment I get an email below when I submit a Thesis on Dspace;
"You submitted: IOP Helpdesk Version 2
To collection: PHD Theses
Your submission has been accepted and archived in DSpace, and it has
been assigned the following identifier:
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/21
Please use this identifier when citing your submission.
Many thanks!
Dspace"
The problem is the handle web link does not take me to the document, I
just get an error. The handle web link needs to point to my server not
hdl.handle.net! How do I get Dspace to do this? I'm using version 1.4.
Thanks.
___________________________________________________________
Rudolph Scott
Desktop Support Analyst
Dept of Biostatistics and Computing
Institute Of Psychiatry
Kings College London
De Crespigny Park,
London SE5 8AF
Tel: 020-7848-0135
E-mail: r.scott at iop.kcl.ac.uk
From Claudia.Juergen at ub.uni-dortmund.de Fri Dec 22 07:21:30 2006
From: Claudia.Juergen at ub.uni-dortmund.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claudia_J=FCrgen?=)
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:21:30 +0100
Subject: [Dspace-general] Handle links for DSpace
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <458BCDCA.1080608@ub.uni-dortmund.de>
Hi Scott,
> Is the a way to make Dspace edit the input_forms.xml file automatically
> when the thesis is submitted? I think this would be of great benefit to
you may use the mechanism of the initial questions, introducing another
initial question like:
"Is this submission a thesis?". If checked, thesis related elements like
dc.contributor.advisor, dc.contributor.referee, dc.date.accepted will be
included in the form.
Is that what you want?
Take a look at:
jsp/submit/initial-questions.jsp and
src/org/dspace/app/webui/servlet/SubmitServlet.java
Claudia
From Claudia.Juergen at ub.uni-dortmund.de Fri Dec 22 07:32:18 2006
From: Claudia.Juergen at ub.uni-dortmund.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claudia_J=FCrgen?=)
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:32:18 +0100
Subject: [Dspace-general] The handle link for a submitted document
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <458BD052.7020700@ub.uni-dortmund.de>
Hi Rudolph,
123456789 is the dummy handle.
a) Did you get your handle from handle net and set it up, as described
in docs/install.html#advancedinstall The Handle server?
if this is the case
b) do you got "old" submission done with the dummy handle?
if so
c) there is a script to update handles in
[dspace-install]/bin/update-handle-prefix
Claudia
Scott, Rudolph schrieb:
> At the moment I get an email below when I submit a Thesis on Dspace;
>
> "You submitted: IOP Helpdesk Version 2
>
> To collection: PHD Theses
>
> Your submission has been accepted and archived in DSpace, and it has
> been assigned the following identifier:
> http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/21
>
> Please use this identifier when citing your submission.
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Dspace"
>
> The problem is the handle web link does not take me to the document, I
> just get an error. The handle web link needs to point to my server not
> hdl.handle.net! How do I get Dspace to do this? I'm using version 1.4.
> Thanks.
>
> ___________________________________________________________
>
> Rudolph Scott
> Desktop Support Analyst
> Dept of Biostatistics and Computing
> Institute Of Psychiatry
> Kings College London
> De Crespigny Park,
> London SE5 8AF
>
> Tel: 020-7848-0135
> E-mail: r.scott at iop.kcl.ac.uk
>
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