From mr41 at cornell.edu Tue May 2 13:58:57 2006 From: mr41 at cornell.edu (Marcy Rosenkrantz) Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 13:58:57 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] announcing iPRES 2006 Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20060502135828.0360ab60@postoffice8.mail.cornell.edu> Subject: Registration and Call for Participation at iPRES 2006 Apologies for Cross-Posting The International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2006) will be held October 8-10, 2006 at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY U.S.A. The theme of this year's iPRES is Words to Deeds: Collaboration in the Realm of Digital Preservation. Following on the successful iPRES 2005 held September 14-16 in Goettingen, Germany, iPRES 2006 Plenary Sessions will explore topics in Preserving Multimedia Objects, e-Journal Preservation, Certification, and National Efforts in Digital Preservation. Concurrent sessions on Tools of the Trade; Selection, Workflow, and Accession; eScience and Digital Preservation; Metadata; Business and organizational issues; and Repositories are tentatively planned. We invite contributions in these areas by sending a brief abstract to ipres2006 at cornell.edu. Deadline for contributed papers is August 15, 2006. The deadline for early registration is September 1, 2006. For details about the iPRES 2006 agenda and to register, please visit our web site: http://ipres.library.cornell.edu/ . Know Your Publisher, http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php Manage Your Copyright,http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/copyright Save Your Stuff ... in the OAR, http://dspace.library.cornell.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060502/2074ef2e/attachment.htm From sergtrejo at gmail.com Wed May 3 09:26:09 2006 From: sergtrejo at gmail.com (Sergio Trejo) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 03:26:09 -1000 Subject: [Dspace-general] Simple use case of DSpace -- can this work? Message-ID: <7c3d69360605030626g3f22be92ne22cdf87b8414cf@mail.gmail.com> Hello All, I am about to install DSpace 1.4 alpha. I will gladly test it out and be happy to provide feedback to the maintainers. I had started to look at DSpace last year but was called to do work on a different project. Now I am returning to DSpace and I am looking forward to it!. I have a simple use case: * I have, on the file system of the server which I plan to install DSpace (Mac OS X Server), a top-level directory. This top-level directory contains files, sub-directories, and a few symbolic links (the links are to other directories within the top-level directory). The files contained in this directory structure on the file system are comprised mostly of web-related content (images in JPG and PNG), text, CSS, XHTML, etc. I also have one and only one RDF file for the entire top-level directory which contains Simple Dublin Core (15 elements maximum) that describe the entire directory of the content I just mentioned (DC: author, date, identifier, publisher, etc.). * I want to turn the above-described directory (and all of its content and RDF metdata file and sub-directories) as a DSpace "item" (a DSpace archival atom) as per the gorgeous diagram found at http://www.dspace.org/introduction/dspace-diagram.pdf * I would like to write a shell script that may be run on the Mac OS X Server machine that is also hosting the DSpace 1.4 alpha system, which script would be run by a designated Collection Curator and used to importthe above-mentioned DSpace item. I would thus like to avoid or highly minimize the requirement for a person (curator) to use the DSpace Web Interface and to avoid the need to fill out web forms for manually entering metadata about the "item". The motto I must take in my small and lean organization is borrowed from the Ruby on Rails community which espouses simplicity and agile approaches: DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) < http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/DRY > Looking at the DSpace documentation, it is my understanding that in order to import an "item" into a DSpace repository, I will need to somehow create a SIP (Submission Information Package) file. A SIP apparently is "an XML metadata document with some content files" but I am having a hard time finding detailed documentation on how to create a SIP and just what goes into this "XML metadata document" as well as what "content files" are required. Could my proposed shell shell script, for example, parse the Simple Dublin Core contained in the RDF document that both describes the and is a part of the item, to generate a machine-meaningful SIP? How complex of a process might this be, to create a SIP? Will I need more than Simple Dublin Core to achieve all of this? Has anyone done something similar? My goal is to try and keep things as easy on people as possible. It is my job to make other people's lives as easy as possible ... I am fluent in scripting languages (python works great as does ruby) and am looking forward to creating SIPs for items. Thank you for any suggestions. -Sergio -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060503/235c2f9f/attachment.htm From gourley at wrlc.org Wed May 3 10:20:54 2006 From: gourley at wrlc.org (Don Gourley) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 10:20:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Dspace-general] Simple use case of DSpace -- can this work? In-Reply-To: <7c3d69360605030626g3f22be92ne22cdf87b8414cf@mail.gmail.com> References: <7c3d69360605030626g3f22be92ne22cdf87b8414cf@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <52076.192.245.136.76.1146666054.squirrel@mail.wrlc.org> Sergio, I don't quite understand what kind of item you want to import into DSpace...and if it is just one big item I'm not sure what value DSpace would offer to managing it. But in general for importing items you would use the ItemImport program: http://www.dspace.org/technology/system-docs/application.html#itemimporter This program reads the DSpace "simple archive format" which is a directory structure with folders for each item which contain a very simple XML encoding of Dublin Core, the content files and a file listing the content files. I have written Perl scripts to create this directory structure and it is pretty easy. I think the content files can be structured in sub-folders but I've never tried that and don't know how (or if) that structure would be translated into DSpace's item structure. The way I've dealt with structural relationships between files in an item is by including another file in each item which includes structural metadata. Another option in your case might be to use DSpace's community/sub-community/collection/item hierarchy to map your directories and files to multiple items instead of a single one. In 1.4 you have another option which is to create a packager plugin to ingest your item into DSpace. However, the plugin must be written in Java...I don't think there is any easy way to use a scripting language. -Don On Wed, May 3, 2006 9:26 am, Sergio Trejo wrote: > Hello All, > > I am about to install DSpace 1.4 alpha. I will gladly test it out and be > happy to provide feedback to the maintainers. I had started to look at > DSpace last year but was called to do work on a different project. Now I am > returning to DSpace and I am looking forward to it!. > > I have a simple use case: > > * I have, on the file system of the server which I plan to install DSpace > (Mac OS X Server), a top-level directory. This top-level directory contains > files, sub-directories, and a few symbolic links (the links are to other > directories within the top-level directory). The files contained in this > directory structure on the file system are comprised mostly of web-related > content (images in JPG and PNG), text, CSS, XHTML, etc. I also have one and > only one RDF file for the entire top-level directory which contains Simple > Dublin Core (15 elements maximum) that describe the entire directory of the > content I just mentioned (DC: author, date, identifier, publisher, etc.). > > * I want to turn the above-described directory (and all of its content and > RDF metdata file and sub-directories) as a DSpace "item" (a DSpace archival > atom) as per the gorgeous diagram found at > http://www.dspace.org/introduction/dspace-diagram.pdf > > * I would like to write a shell script that may be run on the Mac OS X > Server machine that is also hosting the DSpace 1.4 alpha system, which > script would be run by a designated Collection Curator and used to > importthe above-mentioned DSpace item. I would thus like to avoid or > highly > minimize the requirement for a person (curator) to use the DSpace Web > Interface and to avoid the need to fill out web forms for manually entering > metadata about the "item". The motto I must take in my small and lean > organization is borrowed from the Ruby on Rails community which espouses > simplicity and agile approaches: DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) < > http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/DRY > > > Looking at the DSpace documentation, it is my understanding that in order to > import an "item" into a DSpace repository, I will need to somehow create a > SIP (Submission Information Package) file. A SIP apparently is "an XML > metadata document with some content files" but I am having a hard time > finding detailed documentation on how to create a SIP and just what goes > into this "XML metadata document" as well as what "content files" are > required. > > Could my proposed shell shell script, for example, parse the Simple Dublin > Core contained in the RDF document that both describes the and is a part of > the item, to generate a machine-meaningful SIP? How complex of a process > might this be, to create a SIP? Will I need more than Simple Dublin Core to > achieve all of this? Has anyone done something similar? My goal is to try > and keep things as easy on people as possible. It is my job to make other > people's lives as easy as possible ... I am fluent in scripting languages > (python works great as does ruby) and am looking forward to creating SIPs > for items. > > Thank you for any suggestions. > > -Sergio > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > From sergtrejo at gmail.com Wed May 3 12:04:12 2006 From: sergtrejo at gmail.com (Sergio Trejo) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 06:04:12 -1000 Subject: [Dspace-general] Simple use case of DSpace -- can this work? In-Reply-To: <52076.192.245.136.76.1146666054.squirrel@mail.wrlc.org> References: <7c3d69360605030626g3f22be92ne22cdf87b8414cf@mail.gmail.com> <52076.192.245.136.76.1146666054.squirrel@mail.wrlc.org> Message-ID: <7c3d69360605030904y33ea9bb1x178cebbc506997d6@mail.gmail.com> Dear Don, Thank you very very much. I hadn't picked up on the Item Importer when perusing through the documentation previously and after a quick scan of it along with your helpful email, I think that will get me started on the right track. As for the kind of item that I want to import, it doesn't have a name yet but for now let's call it a "bundle of web page resources" or a "bundle" for short. The files comprising this "bundle" are a logically related collection of files (images such as in PNG format, unstructured UTF-8 encoded text files, XHTML files and CSS style sheet files, etc.). When I looked at that very nice diagram (the PDF depicting the DSpace system), the diagram said verbatim: An item is an "archival atom" consisting of grouped, related content and associated descriptions (metadata). Unless I have misinterpreted, the DSpace definition of an item seems appropriate to my "bundle" situation. It does look as if, however, that Dublin Core will be required for each file in this "bundle" item. I was hoping that I could use one DC metadata file to describe the "bundle" as a whole and not necessarily worry about the metadata description of each file or part of the "bundle" but I can see how that would be too limiting and the option needs to exist to describe each and every file in an item if need be. Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction. Most likely the Importer will be fine to start with and I'll have to do some additional investigating per your suggestions such as with regard to handling the item structure. Cheers, -Sergio On 5/3/06, Don Gourley wrote: > > Sergio, > > I don't quite understand what kind of item you want to import into > DSpace...and if it is just one big item I'm not sure what value > DSpace would offer to managing it. But in general for importing > items you would use the ItemImport program: > > http://www.dspace.org/technology/system-docs/application.html#itemimporter > > This program reads the DSpace "simple archive format" which is a > directory structure with folders for each item which contain a > very simple XML encoding of Dublin Core, the content files and > a file listing the content files. I have written Perl scripts > to create this directory structure and it is pretty easy. > > I think the content files can be structured in sub-folders but > I've never tried that and don't know how (or if) that structure > would be translated into DSpace's item structure. The way I've > dealt with structural relationships between files in an item is > by including another file in each item which includes structural > metadata. Another option in your case might be to use DSpace's > community/sub-community/collection/item hierarchy to map your > directories and files to multiple items instead of a single one. > > In 1.4 you have another option which is to create a packager > plugin to ingest your item into DSpace. However, the plugin > must be written in Java...I don't think there is any easy way > to use a scripting language. > > -Don > > On Wed, May 3, 2006 9:26 am, Sergio Trejo wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I am about to install DSpace 1.4 alpha. I will gladly test it out and be > > happy to provide feedback to the maintainers. I had started to look at > > DSpace last year but was called to do work on a different project. Now I > am > > returning to DSpace and I am looking forward to it!. > > > > I have a simple use case: > > > > * I have, on the file system of the server which I plan to install > DSpace > > (Mac OS X Server), a top-level directory. This top-level directory > contains > > files, sub-directories, and a few symbolic links (the links are to other > > directories within the top-level directory). The files contained in this > > directory structure on the file system are comprised mostly of > web-related > > content (images in JPG and PNG), text, CSS, XHTML, etc. I also have one > and > > only one RDF file for the entire top-level directory which contains > Simple > > Dublin Core (15 elements maximum) that describe the entire directory of > the > > content I just mentioned (DC: author, date, identifier, publisher, > etc.). > > > > * I want to turn the above-described directory (and all of its content > and > > RDF metdata file and sub-directories) as a DSpace "item" (a DSpace > archival > > atom) as per the gorgeous diagram found at > > http://www.dspace.org/introduction/dspace-diagram.pdf > > > > * I would like to write a shell script that may be run on the Mac OS X > > Server machine that is also hosting the DSpace 1.4 alpha system, which > > script would be run by a designated Collection Curator and used to > > importthe above-mentioned DSpace item. I would thus like to avoid or > > highly > > minimize the requirement for a person (curator) to use the DSpace Web > > Interface and to avoid the need to fill out web forms for manually > entering > > metadata about the "item". The motto I must take in my small and lean > > organization is borrowed from the Ruby on Rails community which espouses > > simplicity and agile approaches: DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) < > > http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/DRY > > > > > Looking at the DSpace documentation, it is my understanding that in > order to > > import an "item" into a DSpace repository, I will need to somehow create > a > > SIP (Submission Information Package) file. A SIP apparently is "an XML > > metadata document with some content files" but I am having a hard time > > finding detailed documentation on how to create a SIP and just what goes > > into this "XML metadata document" as well as what "content files" are > > required. > > > > Could my proposed shell shell script, for example, parse the Simple > Dublin > > Core contained in the RDF document that both describes the and is a part > of > > the item, to generate a machine-meaningful SIP? How complex of a process > > might this be, to create a SIP? Will I need more than Simple Dublin Core > to > > achieve all of this? Has anyone done something similar? My goal is to > try > > and keep things as easy on people as possible. It is my job to make > other > > people's lives as easy as possible ... I am fluent in scripting > languages > > (python works great as does ruby) and am looking forward to creating > SIPs > > for items. > > > > Thank you for any suggestions. > > > > -Sergio > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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Concurrent sessions on Tools of the Trade; Selection, Workflow, and Accession; eScience and Digital Preservation; Metadata; Business and organizational issues; and Repositories are tentatively planned. We invite contributions in these areas by sending a brief abstract to ipres2006 at cornell.edu. Deadline for contributed papers is August 15, 2006. The deadline for early registration is September 1, 2006. For details about the iPRES 2006 agenda and to register, please visit our web site: http://ipres.library.cornell.edu/ . Know Your Publisher, http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php Manage Your Copyright,http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/copyright Save Your Stuff ... in the OAR, http://dspace.library.cornell.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060504/7c00cec0/attachment.htm From robert.tansley at hp.com Fri May 5 07:04:51 2006 From: robert.tansley at hp.com (Tansley, Robert) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 07:04:51 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Moving on Message-ID: <6B003D25ADBDE347B5542AFE6A55B42E072FA2A0@tayexc13.americas.cpqcorp.net> Dear all, Well, today is my last day working at HP on DSpace, the last remaining member of the original team that started it all in 2000. It's been a fun five and a half years, and I think it's fair to say that DSpace is a success. However I did find myself in a rather unusual position, perceived as the DSpace chief architect, but with no one I could direct. This meant that some people perhaps felt it wasn't appropriate or they needed permission to come up with substantial ideas and proposals to move DSpace forward. So, painful though it is, there is a time for the parent to let the offspring free. The test of a good open source project (and of course a key intention of DSpace) has always been that it outlasts its originators. Now the community has a fresh sheet of paper to decide how best to move forward. There are so many good people working on DSpace now that I feel it is positioned for great things. Although I'm not sure if and how I'll be involved in DSpace with my new employer Google, I'll definitely be cheering from the sidelines. DSpace has already achieved so much and has fantastic potential to do more. Thanks all, and stay in touch. Rob From jcs at lib-mail.humboldt.edu Mon May 8 18:41:25 2006 From: jcs at lib-mail.humboldt.edu (Shellhase, Jeremy) Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 15:41:25 -0700 Subject: [Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF Message-ID: <5962A745B310D411B610009027DCF40E025BE9C1@lib-mail.humboldt.edu> Hello All, I had a few quick questions for anyone running a Dspace repository. 1) Have you decided to declare Adobe PDF a "supported" format? 1.a.) If you have, has anyone undertaken any "functional preservation" on this or actually any other format? 1.b.) What was or will be the signal(s) that "functional preservation" is indicated for a particular format, like Adobe PDF. Thanks in advance. Feel free to respond off-list or on. Regards, Jeremy Jeremy C. Shellhase Systems Librarian Humboldt State University Library Arcata, [Northern]California USA jcs7001 at humboldt.edu From scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au Tue May 9 19:03:09 2006 From: scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au (Scott Yeadon) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:03:09 +1000 Subject: [Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <44611FAD.3070107@anu.edu.au> Hi Jeremy, >Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 15:41:25 -0700 >From: "Shellhase, Jeremy" >Subject: [Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF >To: Dspace-general at mit.edu >Message-ID: > <5962A745B310D411B610009027DCF40E025BE9C1 at lib-mail.humboldt.edu> >Content-Type: text/plain > >Hello All, > >I had a few quick questions for anyone running a Dspace repository. >1) Have you decided to declare Adobe PDF a "supported" format? > > Yes, but all that means in our current policy is that the repository managers will undertake (in consultation with collection owners) migration of bitstreams of this format to a new format should it become obsolete or there is a risk it may become obsolete. >1.a.) If you have, has anyone undertaken any "functional preservation" on >this or actually any other format? > > No. We are developing ways of assisting authors/content generators to create their materials in such a way that popular and archive-quality formats are used (for example, use of template sets so that documents can be archived in XML rather than a native/proprietary word processing package, acceptable formats for images, etc). This work is only in its infancy here at the moment. We haven't really looked at funtional preservation/emulation in any detail, to what extent functional preservation can be supported long-term is something that could be debated and discussed ad infinitum...a neat example has been developed by the National Library of Australia which converts databases to XML and attempts to emulate some basic functionality. This though requires negotiation with the db owner and requires some work per database. See http://www.nla.gov.au/xinq/ for more details. >1.b.) What was or will be the signal(s) that "functional preservation" is >indicated for a particular format, like Adobe PDF. > >Thanks in advance. Feel free to respond off-list or on. > >Regards, > >Jeremy > >Jeremy C. Shellhase >Systems Librarian >Humboldt State University Library >Arcata, [Northern]California USA >jcs7001 at humboldt.edu > > > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Dspace-general mailing list >Dspace-general at mit.edu >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > >End of Dspace-general Digest, Vol 34, Issue 4 >********************************************* > > > From tyler.walters at library.gatech.edu Tue May 9 20:25:42 2006 From: tyler.walters at library.gatech.edu (Tyler Walters) Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 20:25:42 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF In-Reply-To: <44611FAD.3070107@anu.edu.au> References: <44611FAD.3070107@anu.edu.au> Message-ID: <4639.WlhBCwBQDFA=.1147220742.squirrel@mail.library.gatech.edu> Hi Jeremy, Here's a few links about the relatively new PDF/A (archival) specification. To my knowledge, there is no batch way to convert existing PDF files to PDF/A. You can do so in the current version of Adobe Acrobat, one file at a time. Hopefully, there will be an application developed soon to "batch" convert verious strains of past PDF formats into the PDF/A standard, but I'm not aware of any specific work at this point (other than Adobe being aware of this need). http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/pdfarchiving.pdf http://www.aiim.org/article-pr.asp?ID=30413 http://www.educause.edu/E05/Program/5085?PRODUCT_CODE=E05/CORP07 Hope this helps some, Tyler -- Tyler O. Walters Associate Director, Technology & Resource Services Library and Information Center Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0900 404-385-4489 voice 404-894-6084 fax tyler.walters at library.gatech.edu http://www.library.gatech.edu/research_help/librarians/walters.html I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. Frank Lloyd Wright On Tue, May 9, 2006 7:03 pm, Scott Yeadon wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > >>Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 15:41:25 -0700 >>From: "Shellhase, Jeremy" >>Subject: [Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF >>To: Dspace-general at mit.edu >>Message-ID: >> <5962A745B310D411B610009027DCF40E025BE9C1 at lib-mail.humboldt.edu> >>Content-Type: text/plain >> >>Hello All, >> >>I had a few quick questions for anyone running a Dspace >> repository. >>1) Have you decided to declare Adobe PDF a "supported" format? >> >> > Yes, but all that means in our current policy is that the > repository > managers will undertake (in consultation with collection owners) > migration of bitstreams of this format to a new format should it > become > obsolete or there is a risk it may become obsolete. > >>1.a.) If you have, has anyone undertaken any "functional >> preservation" on >>this or actually any other format? >> >> > No. We are developing ways of assisting authors/content generators > to > create their materials in such a way that popular and > archive-quality > formats are used (for example, use of template sets so that > documents > can be archived in XML rather than a native/proprietary word > processing > package, acceptable formats for images, etc). This work is only in > its > infancy here at the moment. We haven't really looked at funtional > preservation/emulation in any detail, to what extent functional > preservation can be supported long-term is something that could be > debated and discussed ad infinitum...a neat example has been > developed > by the National Library of Australia which converts databases to > XML and > attempts to emulate some basic functionality. This though requires > negotiation with the db owner and requires some work per database. > See > http://www.nla.gov.au/xinq/ for more details. > >>1.b.) What was or will be the signal(s) that "functional >> preservation" is >>indicated for a particular format, like Adobe PDF. >> >>Thanks in advance. Feel free to respond off-list or on. >> >>Regards, >> >>Jeremy >> >>Jeremy C. Shellhase >>Systems Librarian >>Humboldt State University Library >>Arcata, [Northern]California USA >>jcs7001 at humboldt.edu >> >> >> >>------------------------------ >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Dspace-general mailing list >>Dspace-general at mit.edu >>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general >> >> >>End of Dspace-general Digest, Vol 34, Issue 4 >>********************************************* >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This email was composed using the GTEL Webmail client. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or priviledged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. Georgia Tech Library and Information Center http://www.library.gatech.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From lcs at MIT.EDU Tue May 9 21:28:49 2006 From: lcs at MIT.EDU (Larry Stone) Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 21:28:49 EDT Subject: [Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 9 May 2006 20:25:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: > specification. To my knowledge, there is no batch way to convert > existing PDF files to PDF/A. The latest version of AFPL Ghostscript seems like it might be able to output PDF/A, and it runs quite well in batch-mode (or under a web server). Here's the relevant doc: http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/cvs/Ps2pdf.htm#PDFA Note that the ps2pdf application just runs Ghostscript, and it ought to be able to accept a PDF file as input as well. Also see the main site http://www.ghostscript.com/ for news. I haven't tried Ghostscript 8.53 but have found previous versions about as reliable as Adobe's reader, although they don't usually fail on the same documents. I think it's worth a look, anyway. -- Larry From kenzie at MIT.EDU Tue May 9 22:32:15 2006 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 22:32:15 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF In-Reply-To: <5962A745B310D411B610009027DCF40E025BE9C1@lib-mail.humboldt .edu> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20060509221100.02543638@hesiod> Hi Jeremy, MIT's format support policies are documented here http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-mit/build/policies/format.html We did decide to "support" PDF since it's a publicly documented, if proprietary, specification, but I gather that might have been a bit optimistic... the spec is so flexible that writing a PDF reader based on it doesn't really guarantee that you can write a PDF reader that will render a given PDF successfully... so let's hope that PDF/A catches on or that the automatic conversion tools do the trick. I doubt if we'll change our policy since PDF is one of the most popular document formats in the world and it's hard for me to believe that it might become obsolete without vendors stepping in to provide conversion tools... entire governments and industries depend on PDF for their records compliance... but the conservative choice would be to make PDF "known" and PDF/A "supported". Have we had to test this? No, thankfully. Most DSpace repositories have made their support policies publicly available via their DSpace websites... if you look under "Help" "File Formats" in a given DSpace site you'll see the local decisions. For example, the ANU policies that Scott provided are at http://dspace.anu.edu.au/help/formats.jsp#policy and the University of Cambridge policies are here http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/help/formats.jsp#policy. A lot of sites have kept the default settings (i.e. "known" rather than "supported"), but I hope that more organizations will set their policies as they have the time... MacKenzie Smith MIT Libraries At 03:41 PM 5/8/2006 -0700, Shellhase, Jeremy wrote: >I had a few quick questions for anyone running a Dspace repository. >1) Have you decided to declare Adobe PDF a "supported" format? >1.a.) If you have, has anyone undertaken any "functional preservation" on >this or actually any other format? >1.b.) What was or will be the signal(s) that "functional preservation" is >indicated for a particular format, like Adobe PDF From katariasanjay2001 at yahoo.com Wed May 10 02:02:14 2006 From: katariasanjay2001 at yahoo.com (Sanjay Kataria) Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 23:02:14 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dspace-general] How to make back up of Dspace Message-ID: <20060510060214.63260.qmail@web8318.mail.in.yahoo.com> Dear friends, We have implemented the Dspace and effectivly using by our students and faculty members. This initially on intranet due to it is under testing. I am not able to take the backup of data. It is therefore, requested to guide me about the backup procedure. Best regards Sanjay Kataria --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060510/3800f030/attachment.htm From eloy at sdum.uminho.pt Thu May 11 09:52:00 2006 From: eloy at sdum.uminho.pt (Eloy Rodrigues) Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 14:52:00 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace Statistics Add-on Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting I?m glad to announce that the Reposit?riUM team at Minho University has finished the documentation and packaging off a new Add-on to DSpace, related with Statistics, that we already use in our Repository for 2 months. This Add-on (see description below) is available at: http://wiki.dspace.org/StatisticsAddOn The purpose of the Statistics Add-on was to promote Reposit?riUM and author self(or mediated)-archiving, by demonstrating the worldwide accessibility and usage (access/downloads) of archived documents. We also wanted to provide usage, content and administrative statistics to IR and community/collection administrators or coordinators. The Statistics Add-on to the DSpace platform, is responsible for the gathering, processing and presentation of access, content and administrative statistics generated by DSpace usage. It was developed based on the principles and some of the components of the statistics application created and released by ANU. Despite the fact that the development was made to respond to the specific needs of Reposit?riUM, the system is completely adjustable to other environments, because their components can easily be configured, changed or extended, to respond to different information needs. Important features of the Statistics system: * Real time processing of event logs * Database based stored mechanism of statistics * Real time detection and processing of access country origin * Semi-real time detection and exclusion of crawlers * Definition of user Access policies at individual statistic and data level * Customizable statistics queries * Customizable web interface look and feel of each statistic You can see the implementation of the Add-on in Reposit?riUM (https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt ) where the general (IR level) access/download statistics (https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/sdum/stats?level=general &type=access&group=1&no-form=true&no-menu=true) and individual access/download statistics (eg, http://hdl.handle.net/1822/4803) are publicly available. Best Regards, Eloy Rodrigues Universidade do Minho - Servi?os de Documenta??o Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga Tel: +351 253 60 41 50; Fax - 253 60 41 59 Campus de Azur?m, 4800-058 Guimar?es Tel: +351 253 51 01 19; Fax - 253 51 01 17 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060511/fe064422/attachment.htm From nick.wainwright at hp.com Fri May 12 02:09:24 2006 From: nick.wainwright at hp.com (Wainwright, Nick (HP Labs, Bristol, UK)) Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 07:09:24 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] FW: 8-9 June 2006 Workshop on Digital Repositories and Knowledge e-Infrastructures Message-ID: Hi All Anyone from the DSpace community going to this meeting? Seems like a good opportunity to put DSpace centre stage in EU Framework 7. I'd go myself - but already have committed to taking vacation that week. Nick ________________________________ From: INFSO-RI-NOREPLY at cec.eu.int [mailto:INFSO-RI-NOREPLY at cec.eu.int] Sent: 11 May 2006 15:45 To: INFSO-RI-NOREPLY at cec.eu.int Cc: Kyriakos.Baxevanidis at cec.eu.int; Elina.ZICMANE at cec.eu.int; Wim.Jansen at cec.eu.int; Carlos.Morais-Pires at cec.eu.int; Enric.MITJANA at cec.eu.int Subject: 8-9 June 2006 Workshop on Digital Repositories and Knowledge e-Infrastructures First Announcement of an Open Workshop held in Brussels 8-9 June 2006 (sorry if you receive multiple messages on this subject) The European Commission is preparing the seventh framework programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (FP7) and is carrying a number of impact assessment initiatives addressing the area of Digital Repositories and Knowledge Infrastructures as background of future policy work. Recognising that in order to build a European base for a Knowledge Infrastructure People, Information and Technology must be available, connected and accessible, the objective of the workshop is to discuss with experts the development of Digital Repositories from the perspective of e-Infrastructure. You are kindly invited to actively participate in the workshop that will be held in Brussels 8-9 June 2006. As we have limitations in terms of rooms we ask you to register through our webpage http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/rn/ri-cnd/wshop-080606.htm European Commission DG INFSO/F3 - J-54 01/24 Secretariat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060512/a390a1e3/attachment.htm From julien.jomier at kitware.com Fri May 12 15:34:32 2006 From: julien.jomier at kitware.com (Julien Jomier) Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 15:34:32 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Private communities and collections Message-ID: <4464E348.9060201@kitware.com> Hello, I'm using DSpace 1.3.2 and I'd like to make some communities as well as collections somehow private so they do not show up in the community-list and other pages if the policies are not set for a particular user. Is this something already implemented in DSpace? If not, is there a plan do add this feature in the near future? Thanks a lot for the help, Julien From rchute at lanl.gov Wed May 17 18:03:49 2006 From: rchute at lanl.gov (Ryan Chute) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:03:49 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] LANL Research Library releases Open Source aDORe Archive 1.0 software Message-ID: <446B9DC5.9090906@lanl.gov> Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, May 17, 2006 ? The LANL Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team is pleased to announce the formal release of their aDORe Archive software. The aDORe Archive is a write-once/read-many storage approach for Digital Objects and their constituent datastreams. The approach combines two interconnected file-based storage mechanisms that are made accessible in a protocol-based manner. First, XML-based representations of multiple Digital Objects are concatenated into a single, valid XML file named an XMLtape. The creation of indexes for both the identifier and the creation datetime of the XML-based representation of the Digital Objects, facilitates OAI-PMH-based access. Second, ARC files, as introduced by the Internet Archive, are used to contain the constituent datastreams of the Digital Objects in a concatenated manner. An index for the identifier of the datastream facilitates OpenURL-based access. The interconnection between an XMLtape and its associated ARC file(s) is provided by conveying the identifiers of these ARC files as administrative information in the XMLtape, and by including OpenURL references to constituent datastreams of a Digital Object in the XML-based representation of that Digital Object stored in the XMLtape. The aDORe Archive allows for the storage of multiple XMLtapes and ARC files through the introduction of OAI-PMH compliant XMLtape and ARCfile registries. This distribution includes a comprehensive tutorial intended to introduce new developers to the application framework, as well as provide working knowledge of the API and application configurations. The aDORe Archive 1.0 software was developed by the LANL Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team. Development of the software was partly funded by an NDIIP grant from the Library of Congress. This software may be used without charge in accord with the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Further context for the aDORe Archive software is provided in: * Liu, X., Balakireva, L., Hochstenbach, P., Van de Sompel, H. "File-based storage of Digital Objects and constituent datastreams: XMLTapes and Internet Archive ARC files" (2005, June) http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.DL/0503016 More information: aDORe Archive 1.0 software page http://purl.lanl.gov/aDORe/projects/adoreArchive/ GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php Send Feedback and Questions to: Ryan Chute Digital Library Research & Prototyping Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library tel. +1 505 665 6955 From galloway at ischool.utexas.edu Fri May 19 16:13:51 2006 From: galloway at ischool.utexas.edu (Pat Galloway) Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:13:51 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSPace data dictionary, schema, whatever Message-ID: <446E26FF.6010609@ischool.utexas.edu> In the very olden days (1.1?) there was an attractive schematic that outlined the structure of PostgreSQL tables that consituted DSpace; it does not seem to have been complete, but it helped my students understand what was going on. Is there anything more recent, say for 1.3 or 1.4? Pat Galloway University of Texas-Austin From javier.gomez at ua.es Thu May 25 07:28:33 2006 From: javier.gomez at ua.es (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Javier_Gomez_Castano?=) Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:28:33 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] =?iso-8859-1?q?Resources_in_non_Latin_languages?= Message-ID: <200605251128.k4PBSX3S023318@aitana.cpd.ua.es> Hello, I am elaborating a project for the creation of repositorio (in Spanish) and a user asks to me if he could deposit documents in other non Latin languages (Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Arab, Chinese, etc.) If this is possible, that system uses DSpace? Thanks From ehant at uom.gr Fri May 26 01:18:31 2006 From: ehant at uom.gr (Elisavet Chantavaridou) Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 08:18:31 +0300 Subject: [Dspace-general] Resources in non Latin languages References: Message-ID: <001f01c68083$d7b592f0$9ad6fbc3@library.uom.gr> Hi Javier, we use DSpace for our repository. We have translated the web interface into Greek (you can check it at http://dspace.lib.uom.gr/). If you wish to find out which websites use DSpace, you can check this list: http://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceInstances. Furthermore, you can check the language packs at http://dspace.cvs.sourceforge.net/dspace/language-packs/. The full text of documents can be searched and retrieved in Greek. Hope this helps, Elisavet ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 7:01 PM Subject: Dspace-general Digest, Vol 34, Issue 11 > Send Dspace-general mailing list submissions to > dspace-general at mit.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > dspace-general-request at mit.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > dspace-general-owner at mit.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Dspace-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Resources in non Latin languages (Javier Gomez Castano) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:28:33 +0200 > From: Javier Gomez Castano > Subject: [Dspace-general] Resources in non Latin languages > To: dspace-general at mit.edu > Message-ID: <200605251128.k4PBSX3S023318 at aitana.cpd.ua.es> > > Hello, > > I am elaborating a project for the creation of repositorio (in Spanish) > and a > user asks to me if he could deposit documents in other non Latin languages > (Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Arab, Chinese, etc.) If this is possible, that > system > uses DSpace? > > Thanks > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > > End of Dspace-general Digest, Vol 34, Issue 11 > ********************************************** > > From ghzala at correo.ugr.es Mon May 29 08:08:56 2006 From: ghzala at correo.ugr.es (Ghzala Iazza) Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 14:08:56 +0200 (MEST) Subject: [Dspace-general] help in an other language! Message-ID: <2011.150.214.22.109.1148904536.squirrel@correo3.ugr.es> Hi everybody, can you recommend bibliography in French or Spanish on dspace? because all documentation is in english!! Thank you. -- Ghzala Iazza http://www.ghzala.com From cmde2006 at mat.ua.pt Mon May 29 13:00:33 2006 From: cmde2006 at mat.ua.pt (CMDE2006) Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 18:00:33 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Conference - Call for papers Message-ID: <00bf01c68341$65fa4050$be5188c1@mat.ua.pt> Dear Colleagues, I would like to call your attention to the conference CMDE?2006 (http://www.cmde2006.org ). I think DSpace Community may be interested, maybe talking about present features and future direction of DSpace, or about the role of Free Preprint Servers. Best regards, Eug?nio Rocha -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Branko Kovacevic Records Coordinator Open Society Archives Arany Janos u. 32 1051 Budapest, Hungary phone: (36-1) 327-3266 or 327-2029 e-mail: kovacev at ceu.hu website: www.osa.ceu.hu ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From lievend at gmail.com Wed May 31 14:44:14 2006 From: lievend at gmail.com (Lieven Droogmans) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 20:44:14 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] Document creation date In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <66dca4de0605311144t5a2927d4u44cc9c08fcbaf7ad@mail.gmail.com> If the box "The item has been published or publicly distributed before" is checked, you will see a "date:issued" field in the next page and not a "date:created" field. The difference is in the DublinCore qualifier (see http://dspace.org/technology/metadata.html for the DSpace standard DC metadata). If you want to know how to show a creation date in the submission workflow (even if the box "The item has been published or publicly distributed before" is not ticked) you can take a look at http://www.dspace.org/technology/system-docs/submission.html, which explains how to customize the forms of the submission workflow Hope this helps, Lieven On 5/31/06, Branislav Kovacevic wrote: > > Hi All, > > Could anybody enlighten me with the answer to the following question. > > At the beginning of the submission process there is a checkbox: > "The item has been published or publicly distributed before" > If I don't check it out, in the following steps I don't see the field > where I could > enter creation date for a document which was not published before. > But I'd like to records it somewhere. > > Many thanks in advance. > > Branko Kovacevic > > > > Records Coordinator > Open Society Archives > Arany Janos u. 32 > 1051 Budapest, Hungary > phone: (36-1) 327-3266 or 327-2029 > e-mail: kovacev at ceu.hu > website: www.osa.ceu.hu > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > -- Lieven -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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