From ceesura at yahoo.com Mon Jul 3 07:38:58 2006 From: ceesura at yahoo.com (c. surendran) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 04:38:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dspace-general] Dspace In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060703113858.40562.qmail@web53813.mail.yahoo.com> Dear Sir, As part of installing Dspace on windows, I downloded PostgreSQL . I was shown the following message PostgreSQL 8.0 Failed to run initdb:1! Please see the logfile in C:\Program Files\POstgresSQL\8.0\Temp\initdb.log" Note! You must read/copy this logfile before you click OK, or it will be automatically removed. If anybody help me. Surendran. C Professional Asst. Gr.I School of Management Studies Cochin University of Science and Technology Cochin -682022 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060703/1cab2142/attachment.htm From S.Nieminen at Bradford.ac.uk Tue Jul 4 08:20:49 2006 From: S.Nieminen at Bradford.ac.uk (S Nieminen) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 13:20:49 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Authorisation to read full text Message-ID: <007601c69f64$4952d8b0$1601358f@SNiemine> Hello, At the University of Bradford we want to set up our installation of DSPace with username and password entry. Has anyone restricted access to their repository? Could anyone who's achieved this give us a few pointers? What we want to do is use our LDAP usernames and passwords (all member of the university have these) which are used for other logins, too, e.g. Blackboard etc. We'd like to have the login box pop up when a user tries to open a full text document. If this cannot be achieved with LDAP login, is there a workaround? Help anyone? Thanks Satu Ms Satu Nieminen Electronic Resources Librarian University of Bradford JB Priestley Library Richmond Road Bradford BD7 1DP Tel 01274 233400 Fax 01274 233398 Email s.nieminen at bradford.ac.uk From ruigrokvanderwerven at ubib.eur.nl Tue Jul 4 10:48:18 2006 From: ruigrokvanderwerven at ubib.eur.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven) Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 16:48:18 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] Authorisation to read full text In-Reply-To: <007601c69f64$4952d8b0$1601358f@SNiemine> References: <007601c69f64$4952d8b0$1601358f@SNiemine> Message-ID: <44AA7FB2.9060704@ubib.eur.nl> Hello Ms Nieminen, S Nieminen wrote: > At the University of Bradford we want to set up our installation of DSPace > with username and password entry. Has anyone restricted access to their > repository? Could anyone who's achieved this give us a few pointers? What we > want to do is use our LDAP usernames and passwords (all member of the > university have these) which are used for other logins, too, e.g. Blackboard > etc. We'd like to have the login box pop up when a user tries to open a full > text document. If this cannot be achieved with LDAP login, is there a > workaround? Help anyone? No idea to be honest. I would be interested in this as well, just as a general 'embargo' function which limits access to a specific full-text until a certain date has passed. Anyone know if either Ms Nieminen's functionality or the one I mentioned in addition are (easily) supported? I know how to program, so if nothing exists I might be able to dedicate time to this to implement. (If documented, mea culpa, at the moment busy preparing an upgrade from 1.2.1 to 1.4.) -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven IT Dept Erasmus University Library From ruigrokvanderwerven at ubib.eur.nl Tue Jul 4 10:50:20 2006 From: ruigrokvanderwerven at ubib.eur.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven) Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 16:50:20 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] Dspace In-Reply-To: <20060703113858.40562.qmail@web53813.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060703113858.40562.qmail@web53813.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <44AA802C.4030104@ubib.eur.nl> c. surendran wrote: > C:\Program Files\POstgresSQL\8.0\Temp\initdb.log" > Note! You must read/copy this logfile before you click OK, or it > will be automatically removed. So what did the log file say? -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven IT Dept Erasmus University Library From ruigrokvanderwerven at ubib.eur.nl Tue Jul 4 10:51:20 2006 From: ruigrokvanderwerven at ubib.eur.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven) Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 16:51:20 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] Tomcat not serving Dspace on Ubuntu - NOW FIXED!! In-Reply-To: <38d44e00606270657g7394d051l7f0a8a8c8e298d7e@mail.google.com> References: <5681158E46E1334C845C61E1E0B02FBD992C2D@STBEVS02.stb.sun.ac.za> <5681158E46E1334C845C61E1E0B02FBD992C35@STBEVS02.stb.sun.ac.za> <38d44e00606270657g7394d051l7f0a8a8c8e298d7e@mail.google.com> Message-ID: <44AA8068.4020907@ubib.eur.nl> Robert Tansley wrote: > There's a new Wiki page that would be perfect to post your guide: > > http://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceGuides I'll try to post my FreeBSD experiences up there soon, thanks for the pointer Rob. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven IT Dept Erasmus University Library From tonegawa at sorun.co.jp Tue Jul 4 22:54:07 2006 From: tonegawa at sorun.co.jp (=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCTXg6LEBuNS44dxsoQg==?=) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 11:54:07 +0900 Subject: [Dspace-general] the way of collecting items. Message-ID: <001701c69fde$48d0d700$b12411ac@ss505345> Hi all, I'm providing localized DSpace to prevail the digital archive soft ware in japan . As you know we just started the history of IR so that we are behind most of you. Now most of the staffs here in charge of their IRs are having a trouble how they can collect items practically in the future. Is there anyone succeeded in collecting items show me any cases or tips for the trouble? If you feel the questions is not suitable in this field please ignore it. Big thanks in advance. Takamitsu Tonegawa ************************ ??????? ?????? ????? ???????? ????? phone:03-5427-5502 fax:03-5427-5507 e-mail:tonegawa at sorun.co.jp URL:http://www.sorun.co.jp/ ************************ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060705/7cd7304b/attachment.htm From sugita at lib.hokudai.ac.jp Wed Jul 5 01:45:27 2006 From: sugita at lib.hokudai.ac.jp (SUGITA Shigeki) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:45:27 +0900 Subject: [Dspace-general] the way of collecting items. In-Reply-To: <001701c69fde$48d0d700$b12411ac@ss505345> References: <001701c69fde$48d0d700$b12411ac@ss505345> Message-ID: <44AB51F7.3080604@lib.hokudai.ac.jp> Hi Tonegawa, See, http://www.nii.ac.jp/metadata/oai-pmh/ref.html http://www.nii.ac.jp/metadata/irp/ref.html http://www.nii.ac.jp/irp/info/materials.html http://www.nii.ac.jp/irp/info/2005.html Tonegawa wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm providing localized DSpace to prevail the digital archive soft ware > in japan . As you know we just started the history of IR so that we are > behind most of you. Now most of the staffs here in charge of their IRs > are having a trouble how they can collect items practically in the future. > Is there anyone succeeded in collecting items show me any cases or tips > for the trouble? > If you feel the questions is not suitable in this field please ignore it. > > Big thanks in advance. > > Takamitsu Tonegawa -- SUGITA Shigeki University Library, Hokkaido University, JAPAN HUSCAP http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/ From tonegawa at sorun.co.jp Wed Jul 5 02:39:28 2006 From: tonegawa at sorun.co.jp (=?utf-8?B?5Yip5qC55bed6LK05YWJ?=) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 15:39:28 +0900 Subject: [Dspace-general] the way of collecting items. References: <001701c69fde$48d0d700$b12411ac@ss505345> <44AB51F7.3080604@lib.hokudai.ac.jp> Message-ID: <008c01c69ffd$c3b7c220$b12411ac@ss505345> Thank you so much for your information, Sugita-san. Takamistu "t-man" Tonegawa @sorun ----- Original Message ----- From: "SUGITA Shigeki" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] the way of collecting items. > Hi Tonegawa, > > See, > http://www.nii.ac.jp/metadata/oai-pmh/ref.html > http://www.nii.ac.jp/metadata/irp/ref.html > http://www.nii.ac.jp/irp/info/materials.html > http://www.nii.ac.jp/irp/info/2005.html > > > Tonegawa wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm providing localized DSpace to prevail the digital archive soft ware >> in japan . As you know we just started the history of IR so that we are >> behind most of you. Now most of the staffs here in charge of their IRs >> are having a trouble how they can collect items practically in the >> future. >> Is there anyone succeeded in collecting items show me any cases or tips >> for the trouble? >> If you feel the questions is not suitable in this field please ignore it. >> >> Big thanks in advance. >> >> Takamitsu Tonegawa > > -- > SUGITA Shigeki > University Library, Hokkaido University, JAPAN > HUSCAP http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/ > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > From kenzie at MIT.EDU Thu Jul 6 14:57:26 2006 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:57:26 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Video files In-Reply-To: <106FFBC2989C2944A87980CD7D8CBE7A50E5E8@UXEXMBU116.academic .windsor> References: Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20060706135515.025f5da8@hesiod> At 10:41 AM 6/26/2006 +0100, John Murtagh wrote: >Currently, DSpace only "supports" video/mpeg video files but is there a >"best" way of compressing files or using a "known" or "unknown" file >format on the files we try to upload? Obviously, we want the size reduced >without deteriorating the quality of the images. At the risk of being repetitive, I'd like to follow up on this question to remind everyone that what those support levels mean in the context of DSpace... they're meant to be *your institution's* level of commitment to *preserving* files in those formats. As it currently ships, all those levels are set to "known", which is defined to mean that your institution is familiar with the format but doesn't promise to preserve those files over time... they will just be kept available in their original format (not migrated to newer formats, or an emulator provided, etc.). If you choose to, you can change the support level for a format from "known" to "supported" (meaning you will preserve it over time) or "unknown" (meaning you've never heard of it and have no way of preserving it in the future). DSpace by itself does nothing to provide that preservation support for files that you've archived, it just provides the platform for you to capture and manage those files, and preserve them if you choose, according to the strategy you devise to do that. Video is particularly difficult to store and preserve. It's true that the most "preservable" format is the uncompressed original MPEG files, but that those are impractically large and hard to view, so you also need smaller viewable files (quicktime, readmedia, etc.). The file size upload problems are resolvable but the support and preservation strategies won't be solved as a result... Thanks for your indulgence, MacKenzie MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries From jama at debianlinux.net Sat Jul 8 08:30:12 2006 From: jama at debianlinux.net (Jama Poulsen) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 14:30:12 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. Message-ID: <20060708123012.GB24725@conuropsis.org> Hi, I'm trying to setup DSpace (recent cvs co) with Tomcat on Apache. The two dspace .war files are registered ok, but when I try to go to $myserver/dspace I get this error: log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. This error message lead me to this discussion (dated 2005-04-28): http://www.google.nl/search?q=log4j%3AWARN+No+appenders+could+be+found+for+logger+(org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager)&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial I hope I don't need to patch the base code. Perhaps this a misconfiguration on my part somewhere? Thanks, Jama Poulsen From dludwig at ku.edu Sat Jul 8 10:34:53 2006 From: dludwig at ku.edu (Ludwig, Deborah) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 09:34:53 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. In-Reply-To: <20060708123012.GB24725@conuropsis.org> References: <20060708123012.GB24725@conuropsis.org> Message-ID: Folks, a gentle reminder that messages like this are more appropriate for the technical list. I'd encourage using this list for general information about DSpace development. Thanks, Deb Ludwig Director, Enterprise Academic Systems University of Kansas From: Jama Poulsen Sent: Sat 7/8/2006 7:30 AM To: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: [Dspace-general] log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. Hi, I'm trying to setup DSpace (recent cvs co) with Tomcat on Apache. The two dspace .war files are registered ok, but when I try to go to $myserver/dspace I get this error: log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. This error message lead me to this discussion (dated 2005-04-28): http://www.google.nl/search?q=log4j%3AWARN+No+appenders+could+be+found+for+logger+(org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager)&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial I hope I don't need to patch the base code. Perhaps this a misconfiguration on my part somewhere? Thanks, Jama Poulsen _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060708/a512af8f/attachment.htm From jgpawletko at nyu.edu Mon Jul 10 16:27:38 2006 From: jgpawletko at nyu.edu (j.g. pawletko) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:27:38 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] MARCXML to DSpace qDC Stylesheet? Message-ID: Hello All, I apologize if this has been asked before, but I didn't find an answer in my search of the wiki or mailing list archives... I'm working on a preservation project in which I import items into DSpace using the batch importer. I have MARCXML files of the DMD and would like to automagically create the dublin_core.xml files using XSLT. Does anyone know if there is a MARCXML to *DSpace* qDC XSL stylesheet out there? Thank you for your time. best- Joe -- J.G. Pawletko (joe) jgp at nyu.edu Programmer/Analyst Digital Library Team Bobst Library, New York University (212) 992-9999 -- From ssadler at ucalgary.ca Mon Jul 10 16:54:57 2006 From: ssadler at ucalgary.ca (Shawna Sadler) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:54:57 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] Thumbnails? Message-ID: <44B2BEA1.9080707@ucalgary.ca> Has anyone run the MediaFilter on a collection of images to create thumbnails? If so, can you send me the link please. Thank you, Shawna -- Shawna Sadler Coordinator, Digital Initiatives Information Resources University of Calgary ssadler at ucalgary.ca (403) 220-3739 From jama at debianlinux.net Tue Jul 11 04:41:23 2006 From: jama at debianlinux.net (Jama Poulsen) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:41:23 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] [Dspace-tech] log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. In-Reply-To: <20060708171304.GD24725@conuropsis.org> References: <20060708171304.GD24725@conuropsis.org> Message-ID: <20060711084123.GC30524@conuropsis.org> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:13:04PM +0200, Jama Poulsen wrote: > log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger > (org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager). > log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. Fixed the problem. I got bitten by the tomcat security setting. I've edited the wiki TechnicalFaq with: "Or if you are using Debian with Tomcat 5 you should edit /etc/init.d/tomcat5 with TOMCAT5_SECURITY=no." I could not find that setting in my "/etc/tomcat5/" at install time, then forgot all about it. Perhaps a runtime check is possible, (since the resulting erros can be cryptic)? Something else. Has anyone worked with DjVu files and DSpace? Some DjVu links: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu - http://djvulibre.djvuzone.org http://www.djvuzone.org/links/ (example archives) - http://www.djvuzone.org - http://any2djvu.djvuzone.org/ - http://www.archive.org/details/newrock If not I'd like to discuss this anyway :-) regards, Jama Poulsen From HUTCHINSONA at si.edu Tue Jul 11 10:53:27 2006 From: HUTCHINSONA at si.edu (Alvin Hutchinson) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:53:27 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Public Statistics Message-ID: Does anyone have their DSpace statistics page set to 'public access'? I am going to be showing some administrative types the DSpace software and since our test instance is currently behind our firewall, the statistics don't show much. But if I could use another repository (hopefully with a lot of activity) as an example, it might cultivate some interest. So if your statistics are publicly available, just send me the URL. Thanks, Alvin Hutchinson Smithsonian Institution Libraries 202.633.1031 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060711/1d4bedd2/attachment.htm From scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au Tue Jul 11 18:51:56 2006 From: scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au (Scott Yeadon) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:51:56 +1000 Subject: [Dspace-general] Thumbnails? Message-ID: <44B42B8C.8070600@anu.edu.au> Shawna, Any collection under http://dspace.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/43280 has mediafilter thumbs Scott. Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:54:57 -0600 From: Shawna Sadler Subject: [Dspace-general] Thumbnails? To: dspace-general at mit.edu Message-ID: <44B2BEA1.9080707 at ucalgary.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Has anyone run the MediaFilter on a collection of images to create thumbnails? If so, can you send me the link please. Thank you, Shawna -- Shawna Sadler Coordinator, Digital Initiatives Information Resources University of Calgary ssadler at ucalgary.ca (403) 220-3739 ----------------------------- From benedicte.barbe at sciences-po.fr Wed Jul 12 03:09:57 2006 From: benedicte.barbe at sciences-po.fr (=?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E9n=E9dicte_BARBE?=) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:09:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Dspace-general] unfinished submissions In-Reply-To: <44B42B8C.8070600@anu.edu.au> References: <44B42B8C.8070600@anu.edu.au> Message-ID: <20685356.1152688197493.JavaMail.root@aten2.sciences-po.fr> Does anyone know if the administrator of a Dspace can see somewhere (but where ?) the unfinished submissions started by submitters ? Our administrator tried to remove a collection from our Dspace (which is still in test) and was allowed to do even though there were several unfinished submissions in this collection. There has been no warning message. Thanks by advance for your answers. B?n?dicte Barb? Sciences Po Library - Paris 33 1 45 49 54 59 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ce message et toutes les pi?ces jointes qu'il contient sont confidentiels et ?tablis ? l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires. Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme ? sa destination, toute diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou partielle, est interdite. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci d'en avertir imm?diatement l'exp?diteur et de le d?truire. Sciences Po d?cline toute responsabilit? au titre de ce message s'il a ?t? alt?r?, d?form? ou falsifi? ou si son ?metteur a falsifi? son identit? ou son statut au sein de Sciences Po. 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Did I donwload the correct file for dspace? http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/ - the latest is 1.3.2. > 2. If, may you help me do the installation corectly using > both Tomcat and PostgreSQl. I have not used any of these > two thats why I had opted for MySQL and Apache. > Nevertheless, I am ready to engange them. I cannot hand-hold you through the entire process I am afraid, my todo list at work is rather large, although I can provide pointers and help, just like others can and will do on this list. If you can find a way to coax Java servlet support out of Apache you can still use Apache, however, I found setting up Tomcat to be a nobrainer. I'd go with Tomcat 5.5.12 or higher if I were you. It is what I use to test DSpace 1.4 on. See http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi for download links. You will need at least a Java JRE of 1.4 or higher. > 3. I take notice that PostgreSQL is one of the Linux > services and I shall start it though ignorant about it. You will find that it is not that much different in the typical sense from the MySQL service. However, using PostgreSQL will require, on some fronts, a small adjustment. Nothing you cannot survive. Don't forget to initialize PostgreSQL before first use. > 4. I have been to Jarkata Tomcat site and got lost!! Yes > lost!! As there are quite a mouthful of things that may > need to be downloaded - the PROBLEM what exactly should I > download for Tomcat? Just the tomcat 5.5 distribution. See earlier in the email. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven IT Dept Erasmus University Library From nabonitaguha at gmail.com Wed Jul 12 10:37:31 2006 From: nabonitaguha at gmail.com (Nabonita Guha) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:07:31 +0530 Subject: [Dspace-general] 1sr Announcement - International Conference on Semantic Web & Digital Libraries Message-ID: <60fe5c400607120737kd1ab7aesf755b3bb95caa426@mail.gmail.com> ************** Apologies for cross postings, if any ************** Indian Statistical Institute Platinum Jubilee Events International Conference on SEMANTIC WEB AND DIGITAL LIBRARIES (ICSD 2007) http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icsd Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, INDIA February 21-23, 2007 THEME The proliferation of digital resources poses an unprecedented challenge to information professionals in generating efficient information services. Most patrons approach the Internet for the digital content but have no clue how to retrieve pertinent information and this has led to a demand for organized information services and resulted in digital library and institutional repositories. Technology and tools have to be deployed for harnessing the content and for retrieval of information from the mass of unorganized resources. Semantic Web Technologies is an area that has invoked much research interest and aims at efficient information representation and retrieval. The aim of semantic web is to build conceptual relations for machine interpretation that eventually will lead to efficient knowledge mapping and organization techniques. However, research in Semantic Web is being understood and experimented in different area differently and one of the most pertinent applications would be in the area of Information Retrieval. Search and retrieval mechanism in Digital Libraries (DL) are moving slowly towards becoming semantic. Interoperability between digital libraries has to be based on Semantic Web principles, in order to achieve meaningful user-machine interaction. Documentation Research and Training Centre(DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute(ISI), Bangalore, has a long research interest in knowledge organization techniques including its seminal contribution in the form of Prof. S.R. Ranganathan's faceted approach to classification. In recent times DRTC has applied the classical theory to practical modeling in the area of Information Retrieval. The team at DRTC has experimented with application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques in IR and has demonstrated systems in automatic classification and indexing. With this experience and as part of the Indian Statistical Institute Platinum jubilee celebrations, DRTC/ISI announces International conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries. The objective is to bring together the best expertise in the areas of Semantic Web and Digital Libraries from leading initiatives worldwide. Themes include: (but not limited to) * Digital Libraries * Digital Resource Organization * Technology issues in Digital Services * Design of Digital Information Services * Retrieval issues in digital environment * Standards and Specifications for Digital objects * Metadata standards, Interoperability and Crosswalks * Knowledge Organization and Ontologies * Semantic Web Technologies and Digital Libraries * Semantic Web and Information Retrieval * Architecture for Semantic Web * Technology and Semantic Web Modeling tools * Intelligent Agents in Semantic Retrieval * Semantic Portals and Semantic Web Services * Vocabulary and Taxonomy development * Tools and Techniques for managing digital repositories * Digital Resource Management Strategies * Content Development: Policies * Content Development: tools and techniques * Technology issues in Digital Services * Resource Media and formats * Multilingual Digital Libraries * Patron interaction and facilitation tools * Digital Library applications and case studies * Digital Library and Semantic Web Projects and Case Studies FORMAT The conference aims to explore the topics in themes and sub themes through tutorials, workshops, demonstrations, Invited talks and presentations. Eminent researchers and academicians will be invited to deliver theme papers and invited talks on select topics. CALL FOR PAPERS Original papers in English are invited on a theme related to those mentioned above. An international review panel will review the papers based on originality of the work, quality and relevance to the main theme of the conference. Peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The papers should follow the submission instructions that will be furnished along with acceptance note and also on the conference website. IMPORTANT DATES - Expression of interest to submit paper with abstract: August 15, 2006 - Submission of full papers: September 15, 2006 - Notification of acceptance of paper with comments: October 31, 2006 - Submission of the final paper after incorporating comments: November 30, 2006 REGISTRATION - Early Bird Registration: December 15, 2006 (Last Date) Rs. 5000/- (Indian & SAARC Delegates); USD 150 (Foriegn Delegates other than SAARC) - After December 15: Rs. 6000/- (Indian & SAARC Delegates); USD 175 (Foriegn Delegates other than SAARC) - Tutorial: Rs. 1500/- (Indian & SAARC Delegates); USD 40 (Foriegn Delegates other than SAARC) CONTACT & ENQUIRIES: (with CC to gmail address) Dr. A.R.D.Prasad, (Conference Convenor) Associate Professor, Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 560 059 Karnataka, INDIA Phone: 91-80-28483002/3/4 extn no. 496 or 490 Fax : 91-80-28484265 email: icsd at drtc.isibang.ac.in icsd2007 at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060712/955518e9/attachment.htm From kenzie at MIT.EDU Wed Jul 12 17:08:59 2006 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:08:59 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] The DSpace User Group meeting at Open Repositories 2007 Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20060712164738.0286bdd0@hesiod> To the DSpace community, As you know, there will be a DSpace User Group meeting at the beginning of the Open Repositories 2007 conference in San Antonio, Texas on January 23-26, 2007. http://openrepositories.org/ I am very pleased to announce that Tyler Walters, the Associate Director for Technology & Resource Services at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Library and Information Center has agreed to serve as the program chair for the user group meeting. In the coming weeks Tyler and I will be asking for volunteers to join him on that program committee, and a call for proposals for presentations at the meeting. We'll need around ten people for the program committee and hopefully not all from North America! We would really like this to be an international meeting of the community. I'll also be asking for a few volunteers to help with meeting logistics, but it should be straightforward -- all the local arrangements, including the meeting venue and accommodations, are being handled by the main conference organizers at Texas A&M. The last DSpace user group meeting to take place in North America was at MIT in March of 2004, nearly three years ago by the time of this one. Since then the DSpace community has grown quite a lot, and the platform has come a long way. The user group meetings in Cambridge, Sydney, and Bergen were all enormously useful, informative and fun, so I hope we can keep to that tradition and make this one just as memorable! I hope to see you all in Texas, MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries From fgjohnson at upei.ca Thu Jul 13 22:16:03 2006 From: fgjohnson at upei.ca (Grant Johnson) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:16:03 -0300 Subject: [Dspace-general] Thumbnails? In-Reply-To: <44B42B8C.8070600@anu.edu.au> References: <44B42B8C.8070600@anu.edu.au> Message-ID: <44B6FE63.8090305@upei.ca> Me too! I have media-filter successfully full text indexing my pdf's, but I can't get thumbnails to appear. Am I stupid?!? http://dspace.roblib.upei.ca:8080/dspace/handle/123456789/105//browse-title Scott Yeadon wrote: > Shawna, > > Any collection under http://dspace.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/43280 has mediafilter thumbs > > Scott. > > Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:54:57 -0600 > From: Shawna Sadler > Subject: [Dspace-general] Thumbnails? > To: dspace-general at mit.edu > Message-ID: <44B2BEA1.9080707 at ucalgary.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > Has anyone run the MediaFilter on a collection of images to create > thumbnails? If so, can you send me the link please. > > Thank you, > Shawna > > From scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au Fri Jul 14 00:25:02 2006 From: scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au (Scott Yeadon) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:25:02 +1000 Subject: [Dspace-general] Thumbnails? In-Reply-To: <44B6FE63.8090305@upei.ca> References: <44B42B8C.8070600@anu.edu.au> <44B6FE63.8090305@upei.ca> Message-ID: <44B71C9E.5040806@anu.edu.au> Hi Grant, Sorry, I forgot one of those collections was a mix of PDF and JPEGs. The PDF thumbs are actually generated by a mediafilter wrapped around an ImageMagick command (the DSpace PDF filter doesn't create thumbs, just creates the TEXT bundle). Image Feel free to use it if you want, you can find it at http://sts.anu.edu.au/drs/downloads/index.php, install instructions are included. Scott. Grant Johnson wrote: > Me too! > I have media-filter successfully full text indexing my pdf's, but I > can't get thumbnails to appear. > Am I stupid?!? > > http://dspace.roblib.upei.ca:8080/dspace/handle/123456789/105//browse-title > > > Scott Yeadon wrote: > >> Shawna, >> >> Any collection under http://dspace.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/43280 has >> mediafilter thumbs >> >> Scott. >> >> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:54:57 -0600 >> From: Shawna Sadler >> Subject: [Dspace-general] Thumbnails? >> To: dspace-general at mit.edu >> Message-ID: <44B2BEA1.9080707 at ucalgary.ca> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed >> >> Has anyone run the MediaFilter on a collection of images to create >> thumbnails? If so, can you send me the link please. >> >> Thank you, >> Shawna >> >> > From m.p.martin at bham.ac.uk Fri Jul 14 11:54:00 2006 From: m.p.martin at bham.ac.uk (Matthew Martin) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:54:00 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Dspace 1.4 beta release query? Message-ID: <01E1DCE40806E84E83856B76BB3142DE023265@EM4.adf.bham.ac.uk> Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any idea when we might be seeing a progression of 1.4 to a beta release? We are currently evaluating 1.3.2 as a digital repository at the University of Birmingham. Thanks Matt Martin Digital Library Team University of Birmingham From rrodgers at MIT.EDU Fri Jul 14 12:07:26 2006 From: rrodgers at MIT.EDU (Richard Rodgers) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:07:26 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Dspace 1.4 beta release query? In-Reply-To: <01E1DCE40806E84E83856B76BB3142DE023265@EM4.adf.bham.ac.uk> References: <01E1DCE40806E84E83856B76BB3142DE023265@EM4.adf.bham.ac.uk> Message-ID: <1152893246.6295.219.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi Matt: Sorry - it already has progressed to beta (June 12th), and is lurching towards final release in a few days. We haven't been making beta announcements to the general list - assuming that if you were doing that level of testing, you subscribed to dspace-tech or dspace-devel, where announcements of this sort are made. Thanks, Richard Rodgers On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 16:54 +0100, Matthew Martin wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone had any idea when we might be seeing a > progression of 1.4 to a beta release? > > We are currently evaluating 1.3.2 as a digital repository at the > University of Birmingham. > > Thanks > Matt Martin > Digital Library Team > University of Birmingham > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From catherine.jannik at library.gatech.edu Fri Jul 14 15:32:48 2006 From: catherine.jannik at library.gatech.edu (Catherine Jannik) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:32:48 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Job opportunity - Application Developer Message-ID: <44B7F160.2010909@library.gatech.edu> Apologies for cross-posting **Systems Analyst II (Application Developer) Position Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center, Systems Department Hiring Range: $44,330 to $56,500 *Education:*A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field; or any equivalent combination of education and experience. *Experience:*Three or more years of job related experience. Successful candidate should have the following Desired Skill Set: knowledge and experience with SQL, HTML, XML, XSLT, Java, Javascript, Perl, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and related web development software and applicable open source tools; familiarity with UNIX, Apache, TomCat, LINUX, EZProxy. Additional computer experience: Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP/NT, Dos, Mac, and MS Office Suite programs. A college/university environment and library experience desired. Selection process will include a background check. *Duties:*A key component of the GT Library's mission is to be a leader in Innovative technology use and development. It's developing centers of excellence are in: 1) digital repositories and collections, 2) digital preservation, and 3) web-based information discovery and access. Maintain and develop the library's strategic IT leadership strengths and seek new technological opportunities. Position Summary: The Application Developer provides intermediate level software application development, testing, documentation, implementation, and maintenance for the Library's web-based digital programs. Areas of support include digital repositories and collections, digital preservation, electronic publishing, and support of the Library's web presence with regard to these digital programs. Other areas of activity may include development support for image databases. Anticipate and investigate new technologies in library technology and related areas. Work with partners on campus and in library consortia to share solutions to mutual challenges. Major Responsibilities: Development and maintenance of digital repository applications as well as applications that will work in concert with the digital repositories' functions and services , i.e. DSpace-based repositories such as SMARTech, Archives DSpace, Galileo Knowledge Repository. Some participation in campus digital asset management systems development and integration (i.e. DAMS). Digital collections-related applications development and maintenance, i.e. Archivist's Toolkit, Greenstone, image databases. Assist/perform other projects as needed, involving development of the library's web site in regards to digital repositories, collections, and preservation programs. For consideration, please submit a cover letter/letter of application addressing your experience and qualifications for the position and attach it to the online application. Interact professionally with faculty, librarians and technical staff. The position requires effective communication and customer service skills. Please apply at *http://tinyurl.com/kfjap *for *https://ea.ohr.gatech.edu/FullDescription.asp?jobid=CEW5631& amp;type=3&typeofjob=ext&jobtitle=SYSTEMS%20ANALYST% 20II%20(Application%20Developer* -- Catherine M. Jannik Digital Initiatives Manager Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center Atlanta, GA 30332-0900 P 404.385.4514 F 404.894.6084 catherine.jannik at library.gatech.edu http://www.library.gatech.edu/research_help/librarians/jannik.html http://www.library.gatech.edu/research_help/librarians/cj121/ Georgia Tech's Institutional Repository http://SMARTech.gatech.edu ETDs @ Georgia Tech http://etd.gatech.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060714/4ff22409/attachment.htm From dimple.dspace at gmail.com Sat Jul 15 06:21:46 2006 From: dimple.dspace at gmail.com (Dimple Patel) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 15:51:46 +0530 Subject: [Dspace-general] INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON Semantic Web and Digital Libraries (ICSD 2007) Message-ID: **************Apologies for cross postings, if any************** Indian Statistical Institute Platinum Jubilee Events INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON Semantic Web and Digital Libraries (ICSD 2007) http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icsd Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, INDIA February 21-23, 2007 As part of the Indian Statistical Institute Platinum jubilee celebrations, DRTC/ISI announces International conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries. The objective is to bring together the best expertise in the areas of Semantic Web and Digital Libraries from leading initiatives worldwide. Themes include: (but not limited to) * Digital Libraries * Digital Resource Organization * Technology issues in Digital Services * Design of Digital Information Services * Retrieval issues in digital environment * Standards and Specifications for Digital objects * Metadata standards, Interoperability and Crosswalks * Knowledge Organization and Ontologies * Semantic Web Technologies and Digital Libraries * Semantic Web and Information Retrieval * Architecture for Semantic Web * Technology and Semantic Web Modeling tools * Intelligent Agents in Semantic Retrieval * Semantic Portals and Semantic Web Services * Vocabulary and Taxonomy development * Tools and Techniques for managing digital repositories * Digital Resource Management Strategies * Content Development: Policies * Content Development: tools and techniques * Technology issues in Digital Services * Resource Media and formats * Multilingual Digital Libraries * Patron interaction and facilitation tools * Digital Library applications and case studies * Digital Library and Semantic Web Projects and Case Studies CALL FOR PAPERS Original papers in English are invited on a theme related to those mentioned above. An international review panel will review the papers based on originality of the work, quality and relevance to the main theme of the conference. Peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The papers should follow the submission instructions that will be furnished along with acceptance note and also on the conference website. IMPORTANT DATES * _Expression of interest to submit paper with abstract: August 15, 2006 * Submission of full papers: September 15, 2006 * Notification of acceptance of paper with comments: October 31, 2006 * Submission of the final paper after incorporating comments: November 30, 2006 REGISTRATION * Early Bird Registration: December 15, 2006 (Last Date) Rs. 5000/- (Indian & SAARC Delegates); USD 150 (Foriegn Delegates other than SAARC) * After December 15: Rs. 6000/- (Indian & SAARC Delegates); USD 175 (Foriegn Delegates other than SAARC) * Tutorial: Rs. 1500/- (Indian & SAARC Delegates); USD 40 (Foriegn Delegates other than SAARC) CONTACT & ENQUIRIES: (with CC to gmail address) Dr. A.R.D.Prasad, (Conference Convenor) Associate Professor, Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 560 059 Karnataka, INDIA Phone: 91-80-28483002/3/4 extn no. 496 or 490 Fax : 91-80-28484265 email: icsd at drtc.isibang.ac.in icsd2007 at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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None whatsoever Terry. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven IT Dept Erasmus University Library From thierry.prieur at sciences-po.fr Tue Jul 18 06:37:36 2006 From: thierry.prieur at sciences-po.fr (Thierry Prieur) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:37:36 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] how to do multi language in DSpace Message-ID: <000f01c6aa56$2f769dd0$fdfa010a@ptl1106> We try to add a multi-language function in our DSpace. It seems that it's possible to have a real multi-language tool in DSpace, as you can see on these following web sites: - HYPERLINK "https://bora.uib.no/"https://bora.uib.no - HYPERLINK "https://eldorado2.uni-dortmund.de/dspacelang/"https://eldorado2.uni-dortmun d.de/dspacelang/ When users switch the languages, we want these changes: - Change the interface language (messages.properties file) - Change in the input form language(inputforms.xml file) - Change the email templates (folder config/emails/) - Change some layout parts (footer, right sidebar, …) - change the help language (optional) If you have, it would be great to receive a fully procedure to install this on our DSpace. Thanks for your response! Thierry Prieur Project Manager Sciences Po Paris -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.1/390 - Release Date: 17/07/2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060718/7dc84924/attachment.htm From mdiggory at MIT.EDU Tue Jul 18 10:38:59 2006 From: mdiggory at MIT.EDU (Mark Diggory) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:38:59 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] how to do multi language in DSpace In-Reply-To: <000f01c6aa56$2f769dd0$fdfa010a@ptl1106> References: <000f01c6aa56$2f769dd0$fdfa010a@ptl1106> Message-ID: <0E7CC294-14B9-4CD2-AC41-76B697F08A60@mit.edu> Follow the details on installing the language packs in DSpace, http://wiki.dspace.org/I18nSupport http://dspace.cvs.sourceforge.net/dspace/language-packs/readme.txt? revision=1.1.1.1&view=markup The trick these sites employ to allow language switching is to use javascript to change the locale of the page being requested: Englisch   Deutsch  ' Cheers, Mark Diggory On Jul 18, 2006, at 6:37 AM, Thierry Prieur wrote: > We try to add a multi-language function in our DSpace. > > It seems that it's possible to have a real multi-language tool in > DSpace, as you can see on these following web sites: > - https://bora.uib.no > - https://eldorado2.uni-dortmund.de/dspacelang/ > > When users switch the languages, we want these changes: > - Change the interface language (messages.properties file) > - Change in the input form language(inputforms.xml file) > - Change the email templates (folder config/emails/) > - Change some layout parts (footer, right sidebar, ?) > - change the help language (optional) > > If you have, it would be great to receive a fully procedure to > install this on our DSpace. > > Thanks for your response! > > > Thierry Prieur > Project Manager > Sciences Po Paris > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.1/390 - Release Date: > 17/07/2006 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060718/8a22d83e/attachment.htm From JWheeler at ntu.edu.sg Tue Jul 18 23:40:22 2006 From: JWheeler at ntu.edu.sg (Wheeler Joy Lynn) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:40:22 +0800 Subject: [Dspace-general] Proceedings article level and DC tags Message-ID: <4756289FEE4B5040B3F8618FF3E009B902D5A46E@EXCHANGE22.staff.main.ntu.edu.sg> Dear Dspace community, I am currently working on implementing Dspace at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The pilot test they chose was an older collection of proceedings. I am having a hard time figuring out the best way to tag them. From looking around I have noticed that most proceedings are kept together and the individual article is not pulled out from the actual journal. We have had these scanned already with the intent to have each article a separate entity, so we will be using the citation DC tag along with the title tag. What I am confused on is: The citation tag - should this be the actual article or the journal and should I format it in a particular way - page numbers etc Should I just put all the articles together to form one journal? Are there some standards on this in cataloging rules somewhere? Is it a good idea to load these records into your OPAC? What do people normally do with their Dspace records are they replicated in your OPAC systems? Is anyone willing to share the metadata DC tags so I can see the way people are cataloging? I do hope this is the correct place to ask these types of questions Thanks for your help Warm regards JOY Joy Wheeler NTU Library 6316 - 8715 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060719/32b3414f/attachment.htm From eduardo at esperanto.org.uy Fri Jul 21 12:34:56 2006 From: eduardo at esperanto.org.uy (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eduardo_Tr=E1pani?=) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:34:56 -0300 Subject: [Dspace-general] Moving items from one collection to another Message-ID: <44C10230.8090509@esperanto.org.uy> Hi, Can this be done? I moved a bunch of documents from Greenstone, but the users would like to reclasify them in new collections. So I imported them to an "Incoming" collection but I find no way to move them now. Maybe I can do it directly in the database, that would be ok too, but I don't know how hard to implement it would be (how many tables need to be touched so that the database integrity is preserved). Thanks, Eduardo. From blancoj at umich.edu Fri Jul 21 13:10:53 2006 From: blancoj at umich.edu (Jose Blanco) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:10:53 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Moving items from one collection to another In-Reply-To: <44C10230.8090509@esperanto.org.uy> Message-ID: <200607211710.k6LHAxMC015009@pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu> You will have to export them using ItemExport, then clean up what you exported using dspace_migrate and then use ItemImport to import it into the new collection. You will also have to remove the items (or the collection) from the collection they are in before importing them to the new collection. Doing this will preserve the handle. Jose -----Original Message----- From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Eduardo Tr?pani Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 12:35 PM To: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: [Dspace-general] Moving items from one collection to another Hi, Can this be done? I moved a bunch of documents from Greenstone, but the users would like to reclasify them in new collections. So I imported them to an "Incoming" collection but I find no way to move them now. Maybe I can do it directly in the database, that would be ok too, but I don't know how hard to implement it would be (how many tables need to be touched so that the database integrity is preserved). Thanks, Eduardo. _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From eduardo at esperanto.org.uy Fri Jul 21 21:14:37 2006 From: eduardo at esperanto.org.uy (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eduardo_Tr=E1pani?=) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:14:37 -0300 Subject: [Dspace-general] Moving items from one collection to another In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <44C17BFD.5070904@esperanto.org.uy> Jose Blanco skribis: > You will have to export them using ItemExport, then clean up what you > exported using dspace_migrate and then use ItemImport to import it into the > new collection. You will also have to remove the items (or the collection) > from the collection they are in before importing them to the new collection. > Doing this will preserve the handle. Good, preserving the handle is not that important now, the whole dspace is only at the early building stage. Thanks for your answer, it's clear how to do it as an administrator but, can users move items between collections? I mean, not just make them belong to more than one, but actually changing the owning collection. Should they upload a document with all its metadata to the wrong collection in the future, the only solution is to export/delete/import outside the web interface? (short of expunging it and entering everything again) Eduardo. From blancoj at umich.edu Mon Jul 24 09:53:11 2006 From: blancoj at umich.edu (Jose Blanco) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:53:11 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Moving items from one collection to another In-Reply-To: <44C17BFD.5070904@esperanto.org.uy> Message-ID: <200607241353.k6ODrJUm001038@pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu> The functionality to move items around using the web interface is not in DSpace presently, as far as I can tell. -----Original Message----- From: Eduardo Tr?pani [mailto:eduardo at esperanto.org.uy] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:15 PM To: Jose Blanco Cc: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Moving items from one collection to another Jose Blanco skribis: > You will have to export them using ItemExport, then clean up what you > exported using dspace_migrate and then use ItemImport to import it into the > new collection. You will also have to remove the items (or the collection) > from the collection they are in before importing them to the new collection. > Doing this will preserve the handle. Good, preserving the handle is not that important now, the whole dspace is only at the early building stage. Thanks for your answer, it's clear how to do it as an administrator but, can users move items between collections? I mean, not just make them belong to more than one, but actually changing the owning collection. Should they upload a document with all its metadata to the wrong collection in the future, the only solution is to export/delete/import outside the web interface? (short of expunging it and entering everything again) Eduardo. From scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au Mon Jul 24 18:46:28 2006 From: scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au (Scott Yeadon) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:46:28 +1000 Subject: [Dspace-general] Dspace-general Digest, Vol 36, Issue 16 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <44C54DC4.6040008@anu.edu.au> Eduardo, You either need to export and re-import as described below or update the db direct (see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13677926). Jose is right, there is no UI facility for moving items at the moment. Scott. >Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:53:11 -0400 >From: "Jose Blanco" >Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Moving items from one collection to > another >To: " 'Eduardo Tr?pani' " >Cc: dspace-general at mit.edu >Message-ID: > <200607241353.k6ODrJUm001038 at pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >The functionality to move items around using the web interface is not in >DSpace presently, as far as I can tell. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Eduardo Tr?pani [mailto:eduardo at esperanto.org.uy] >Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:15 PM >To: Jose Blanco >Cc: dspace-general at mit.edu >Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Moving items from one collection to another > >Jose Blanco skribis: > > >>You will have to export them using ItemExport, then clean up what you >>exported using dspace_migrate and then use ItemImport to import it into >> >> >the > > >>new collection. You will also have to remove the items (or the >> >> >collection) > > >>from the collection they are in before importing them to the new >> >> >collection. > > >>Doing this will preserve the handle. >> >> > >Good, preserving the handle is not that important now, the whole dspace >is only at the early building stage. Thanks for your answer, it's clear >how to do it as an administrator but, can users move items between >collections? I mean, not just make them belong to more than one, but >actually changing the owning collection. > >Should they upload a document with all its metadata to the wrong >collection in the future, the only solution is to export/delete/import >outside the web interface? (short of expunging it and entering >everything again) > >Eduardo. > > > > > > > > > From stella at lib.ntua.gr Tue Jul 25 02:23:55 2006 From: stella at lib.ntua.gr (stella) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:23:55 +0300 Subject: [Dspace-general] edit metadata after having been uploaded on DSpace Message-ID: <200607250616.k6P6GMdS007595@hermes.lib.ntua.gr> Good morning, I have a question about editing metadata. I would like to give permission to librarians to edit the metadata of a document that is already uploaded on DSpace. For this reason I have entered the accounts of the librarians in the submission group of a specific collection and I have given to this submission group a WRITE action. However, in this way, I have found out that librarians not only can edit metadata after having been uploaded, but they also have a generalized permission to edit the collection. Of course this is not one of my purposes. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, Stella. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/396 - Release Date: 7/24/2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060725/ddd7f463/attachment.htm From ehant at uom.gr Tue Jul 25 03:37:05 2006 From: ehant at uom.gr (Elisavet Chantavaridou) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:37:05 +0300 Subject: [Dspace-general] edit metadata after having been uploaded on DSpace References: <200607250616.k6P6GMdS007595@hermes.lib.ntua.gr> Message-ID: <008501c6afbd$23a0d360$9ad6fbc3@library.uom.gr> Hi Stella, I think there's a step in the workflow that allows users only to edit metadata of a collection (e.g. COLLECTION_92_WFSTEP_3). Perhaps you could add those specific users to that group. Otherwise, you could give them the right to accept/reject/edit metadata. In any case, I think you should remove them from the "submitters" of the collection if that's not what you want. Anyway, this is how I understand that function. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Kind regards, Elisavet Chantavaridou Librarian - OPEIVT II - Ploegis Project University of Macedonia - Library and Information Centre Egnatia 156, P.O.B. 1591 540 06 Thessaloniki, Macedonia Hellas (Greece) Tel.: +30 2310 891 828 Fax: +30 2310 857 794 e-mail: ehant at uom.gr library web site: http://www.lib.uom.gr ----- Original Message ----- From: stella To: dspace-general at mit.edu Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 9:23 AM Subject: [Dspace-general] edit metadata after having been uploaded on DSpace Good morning, I have a question about editing metadata. I would like to give permission to librarians to edit the metadata of a document that is already uploaded on DSpace. For this reason I have entered the accounts of the librarians in the submission group of a specific collection and I have given to this submission group a WRITE action. However, in this way, I have found out that librarians not only can edit metadata after having been uploaded, but they also have a generalized permission to edit the collection. Of course this is not one of my purposes. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, Stella. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/396 - Release Date: 7/24/2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks Swarna Bandara Head, Medical Library ETD/DSpace Coordinator University of the West Indies Mona Campus Kingston 7 Jamaica (W.I.) _____ From: dspace-general-bounces at MIT.EDU [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of stella Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:24 AM To: dspace-general at MIT.EDU Subject: [Dspace-general] edit metadata after having been uploaded on DSpace Good morning, I have a question about editing metadata. I would like to give permission to librarians to edit the metadata of a document that is already uploaded on DSpace. For this reason I have entered the accounts of the librarians in the submission group of a specific collection and I have given to this submission group a WRITE action. However, in this way, I have found out that librarians not only can edit metadata after having been uploaded, but they also have a generalized permission to edit the collection. Of course this is not one of my purposes. Can anyone help? 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We're just tossing around the idea but would rather toss it around in collaboration with others. ******************************************** Paul Kobulnicky Director, Maag Library Youngstown State University One University Plaza Youngstown, OH 44555 (v) 330-941-3676 (f) 330-941-3734 ******************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060725/6ebe20a7/attachment.htm From harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk Fri Jul 21 14:09:36 2006 From: harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Stevan Harnad) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:09:36 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Dspace-general] "Publish or Perish" awarded Euroscience Open Forum Poetry Prize Message-ID: ** Apologies for Cross-Posting" The following poem, "Publish or Perish," has won the (English-language category) prize in the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF2006) Poetry Competition, sponsored by the Adrian von Braun Stiftung. http://www.esof2006.org/about.php4 http://www.esof2006.org/blog_send-content.php4?ID=11&what=News The award of 300 euros has been donated by the author to the Alliance for Tax-Payer Access http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/ in support of their efforts to promote the adoption of the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) in the US: With UK OA now well on its way, let Euroscience and euros now reach across the Atlantic to help spread OA to the entire planet... Publish or Perish Stevan Harnad As Science is mere structured common sense, her means but trial-and-error made intense, the only virtue setting her apart, and raising her above (some think) mere Art, is her convergence ever on consensus: collective, self-corrective her defenses. A flagellant, she boldly does defy Reality her schemes to falsify. And yet this noble jousting were in vain, and all this pain would yield no grain of gain if Science were content, a shrinking violet, her works from all the world 'ere to keep private. Instead, performance public and artistic, restraining all propensities autistic, perhaps less out of error-making dread, than banal need to earn her daily bread. For showbiz being what it is today, work's not enough, you've got to make it pay. What ratings, sweeps and polls count for our actors, no less than our elected benefactors, for Science the commensurate equation is not just publication but citation. The more your work is accessed, read and used, the higher then is reckoned its just dues. Sounds crass, but there may be some consolation, where there's still some residual motivation to make a difference, not just make a fee: the World Wide Web at last can make Science free. http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CAA38.htm http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/112-guid.html Stevan Harnad From stella at lib.ntua.gr Wed Jul 26 04:33:23 2006 From: stella at lib.ntua.gr (stella) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:33:23 +0300 Subject: [Dspace-general] edit metadata after having been uploaded on DSpace In-Reply-To: <200607251752.MAA27210@minotaur2.uwimona.edu.jm> Message-ID: <200607260825.k6Q8PpdS009100@hermes.lib.ntua.gr> Good morning, I think I have actually solved the problem. By giving to the COLLECTION_X_SUBMIT group a WRITE PERMISSION we give them the permission to edit metadata after having uploaded them to DSpace. The interface provides an edit-Collection button, but the librarian has access to specific characteristics of the collection, but cannot edit them. Moreover, the librarian cannot remove any item without the approve of the administrator of the collection. _____ From: Swarna Bandara [mailto:swarna.bandara at uwimona.edu.jm] Sent: ?????, 25 ??????? 2006 8:54 ?? To: 'stella'; dspace-general at MIT.EDU Subject: RE: [Dspace-general] edit metadata after having been uploaded on DSpace Stella This is a very interesting observation and I would love to see how you are going to solve this problem. Thanks Swarna Bandara Head, Medical Library ETD/DSpace Coordinator University of the West Indies Mona Campus Kingston 7 Jamaica (W.I.) _____ From: dspace-general-bounces at MIT.EDU [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of stella Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:24 AM To: dspace-general at MIT.EDU Subject: [Dspace-general] edit metadata after having been uploaded on DSpace Good morning, I have a question about editing metadata. I would like to give permission to librarians to edit the metadata of a document that is already uploaded on DSpace. For this reason I have entered the accounts of the librarians in the submission group of a specific collection and I have given to this submission group a WRITE action. However, in this way, I have found out that librarians not only can edit metadata after having been uploaded, but they also have a generalized permission to edit the collection. Of course this is not one of my purposes. Can anyone help? 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We're just tossing around the idea but would rather toss it > around in collaboration with others. > > > > > ******************************************** > > Paul Kobulnicky > > Director, Maag Library > > Youngstown State University > > One University Plaza > > Youngstown, OH 44555 > > > > > (v) 330-941-3676 > > (f) 330-941-3734 > > ******************************************** > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > > From galloway at ischool.utexas.edu Wed Jul 26 12:16:34 2006 From: galloway at ischool.utexas.edu (Pat Galloway) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:16:34 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Tagging in Dspace References: Message-ID: <44C79562.2040705@ischool.utexas.edu> Let's face it, if the submitters do the metadata, it's generally the equivalent of tagging, especially the addition of subject terms. We've been discussing tagging in that context, seeing subject-term addition by submitters as a way of explicitly harnessing the knowledge of a particular community of practice (or designated user community, or DSpace community) to develop better and more current ways of finding things based on their current research. But it would be advantageous to invite others in the same community of practice but not formally submitters to add value in that way and then (because it potentially adds value) make that tagging available as a user choice to anyone entitled to see the materials so tagged--and to appropriate harvesters too. Then again, maybe someone would like to create (or has created) a mashup that allows people to tag materials in any DSpace as external commentary on collections; as an anthropologist I think a lot about tags coming from many different cultural perspectives on the same materials, and how much that could enrich repository collections for international audiences. Pat Galloway School of Information University of Texas at Austin From pjkobulnicky at ysu.edu Wed Jul 26 13:15:18 2006 From: pjkobulnicky at ysu.edu (Paul Kobulnicky) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:15:18 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] more on tagging Message-ID: <3ECD689B-824E-47F4-BA15-A3A3D998D6E4@ysu.edu> With apologies to the list, i initially replied only to Rob. Here is the text of my reply: Think De.licio.us or flickr ... open vocabulary terms ... usually single words. Enabling users to see the tags is certainly an option. Have you read "Ontology is Overrated" http://www.shirky.com/writings/ ontology_overrated.html ? I'm convinced that categorization and classification has some value but that there is also value in user defined classification. My general thought is a two stage project. The first is to enable tags to be added to an item record's metadata by users and maybe keep a count of each tag entered in a given record. The second and larger set of projects would be to make use of the tags beyond just having them act as keywords in the metadata that are searchable. So, options might include display of tags or use of tags and their frequency in some sore of larger relevancy-based search retrieval rewrite. I thought this was a worthwhile step, by the way, while I was on the web, maybe The Guardian but some sort of commercial site, and there was a new web design that allowed users to tag it. It made me think that tagging was getting respectable. So, we are just at the thinking stage right now Rob. The project is open to be defined. ******************************************** Paul Kobulnicky Director, Maag Library Youngstown State University One University Plaza Youngstown, OH 44555 (v) 330-941-3676 (f) 330-941-3734 "Prod any happy person and you will find a project." Richard Layard ******************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060726/fc77083a/attachment.htm From rrodgers at MIT.EDU Wed Jul 26 14:02:50 2006 From: rrodgers at MIT.EDU (Richard Rodgers) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:02:50 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.4 Released Message-ID: <1153936970.10647.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> The DSpace committers are happy to announce the release of DSpace 1.4. In addition to a variety of exciting new features developed by members of the DSpace community, this stable release contains important improvements in security and performance. For this reason, we strongly encourage upgrading to 1.4 as soon as it is practical. If extensive customization or other reasons make this difficult, we advise you to contact the DSpace tech list for recommendations on how to bolster the security of your installation. A sampling of new features: * Content verification through periodic checksum checking * Support for branded preview image * Add/replace Creative Commons in 'edit item' tool * Customisable item listing columns and browse indices * Script for updating handle prefixes (e.g. for moving from development to production) * Configurable boolean search operator * Controlled vocabulary patch to provide search on classification terms, and addition of terms during submission. * Add 'visibility' element to input-forms.xml * Browse by subject feature * Log4J enhancement to use XML configuration * QueryArgs class can support any number of fields in advanced search. * Community names no longer have to be unique * Enhanced Windows support * Support for multiple (flat) metadata schemas * Suggest an item page * RSS Feeds * Stackable authentication methods * Plug-in manager * Pluggable SIP/DIP support and metadata crosswalks * Nested groups of e-people * Expose METS and MPEG-21 DIDL DIPs via OAI-PMH * Configurable Lucene search analyzer (e.g. for Chinese metadata) * Support for SMTP servers requiring authentication The documentation for this release is bundled within the package. DSpace 1.4 can be downloaded from the files area at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/ or from CVS using the tag dspace-1_4. Please use the mailing lists available at http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=19984 to provide feedback on this release. An important caveat regarding Oracle: After much deliberation, we have chosen to release DSpace version 1.4 without complete Oracle support. Since 1.4 has been delayed already, we felt we could not hold the release indefinitely for this feature. DSpace is an open source, community-developed and maintained project; none of the committers have access to an Oracle platform with which to test Oracle support, and so we have to rely on wider community participation to maintain that functionality. As soon as some volunteers to develop and test Oracle functionality step forward, we can soon release a version 1.4.1 with full Oracle support. 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) - 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 With thanks to all who contributed to this release, The DSpace Committers From r.davis at ulcc.ac.uk Fri Jul 28 10:30:38 2006 From: r.davis at ulcc.ac.uk (Richard Davis) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:30:38 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Looking for advice on DSpace users/groups/communities/administrators Message-ID: <44CA1F8E.4030909@ulcc.ac.uk> Hi all I'm at the point of considering how best to arrange my E-People and Groups for the dozen Communities that will be in my repository. I naturally have a Repository Administrator account/group. My sense is that I would like to create community administrator groups on a per-community basis, but I'm confused by the help on Managing a Community's Policies which says: > Presently, since administration is done centrally, this tool doesn't > have a lot of use Does that mean all I can set up are more Repository Administrators who can in theory administer everything? Can anyone point me at a good example or explanation of user/group management in DSpace? I'd be grateful for any help. I'm running 1.3x. Thanks in advance Richard Davis -- / \ Richard M Davis / Digital Archives Specialist \ University of London Computer Centre / Tel: +44 (0) 20 7692 1350 \ mailto: r.davis at ulcc.ac.uk / -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This note is a summary of how we achieved this milestone and the documentation resulting from it that might be of use to others in the DSpace community. One of the challenges of this project was to determine the capabilities/limitations of DSpace in an archival setting vs. the university setting for which DSpace was designed. Differences include work flow processes (one or two submitters vs. a community of submitters) and differences in the type of material stored and related metadata concerns. Our primary objective was to create a low-cost digital archive which would allow the capture and preservation of digital material, as well as access to that material. Long-term preservation and migration to new file formats/technologies will continue to be major areas of concern. The installation was completed by a team consisting of students at Michigan Technological University (MTU) in conjunction with our IT support group (MITCON) and myself as the Post Street representative. MITCON provides IT support to over 30 non-profit agencies in the Midland area. Funding for this project was provided by the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation. For more information about MITCON and its ongoing collaboration with MTU, see the January 24 Press Release at this link: http://www.michigansmalltech.com/PressReleases/index.asp?pg=2 The objectives for the project were: 1. Install DSpace on a server provided by Post Street Archives at MTU. 2. Conduct functionality testing to validate the success of the installation. This step required Post Street personnel to learn DSpace functionality in depth which also led to better final implementation plans. 3. Configure DSpace to meet Post Street Archives requirements. This was done with the goal to minimize any customization given the nature of our long-term IT support options. This will allow us to migrate to newer versions of DSpace with minimized IT support. 4. Create documentation to enable re-installation of DSpace on multiple servers for several organizations. 5. Move the server to its final location and perform final installation for Post Street Archives. I would be happy to share our experiences in more depth with anyone interested. The technical system documentation which describes the installation procedure step-by-step can be found on the DSpace wiki at the following address: http://wiki.dspace.org/TechnicalFaq under - 10. Are there any tips on running DSpace on Redhat/Fedora Core Linux? We also have general end-user documentation which I can provide if anyone is interested. I will be attending the joint SAA/ NAGRA/ COSA meeting, along with our director Tawny Nelb, in Washington D.C. next week should anyone want to share experiences with DSpace implementations at that time. 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