[Dspace-general] Dspace-general Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6

Wed Mar 12 01:48:20 EDT 2008

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>    1. Record display (Wayne Graham)
>    2. Re: ResearchArchive at Victoria implements Manakin in	time for
>       St Patrick's day (Dorothea Salo)
>    3. Re: DSpace 1.5 release roadmap (Scott Phillips)
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> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:37:11 -0400
> From: Wayne Graham <wsgrah at wm.edu>
> Subject: [Dspace-general] Record display
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> Hi,
>
> I can't seem to find in the documentation how to fix this...
>
> I have set up a submission process for theses and dissertations that
> takes some extra fields which seems to be working quite nicely. I run
> into a problem in displaying these fields in the Collection view.
>
> I edited the Messages.properties file to include the fields I wanted to
> display (e.g. itemlist.dc.contributor.advisor = Advisor and
> metadata.dc.contributor.advisor = Advisor), but when I look at the page,
> it lists this field as
>
> ???metadata.dc.contributor.advisor???: value
>
> Thoughts?
>
> TIA,
> Wayne
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:31:17 -0500
> From: "Dorothea Salo" <dsalo at library.wisc.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] ResearchArchive at Victoria implements
> 	Manakin in	time for St Patrick's day
> To: dspace-general at mit.edu
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> > There has been some wrestling with XSLT in the Manakin view, some
> debugging,
> > and four aspects have been created (1. to add a breadcrumb to the
> breadcrumb
> > trail; 2. a new user interface to subscribe to a collection; 3. an
> > alteration to the arrangement of the browse collections; 4. a controlled
> > vocabulary of labels for bitstreams uploaded).
>
> Neat! Let's see the code! Um, have we got an Aspect repository anywhere?
>
> > So, if any organisation on this list is thinking about moving to using
> > Manakin, then we have some useful learning to share, once we have
> celebrated
> > and lain down for a bit.
>
> Ditto. What I've got is on the XSLT side, but I can do some
> possibly-useful things:
>
> - make authors and subjects clickable on item and browse pages
> - recreate the "current" class that out-of-the-box JSP had in the navigation
> bar
> - put community/collection logos in the <h1> (instead of 'way down in
> the comm/coll info)
>
> Congrats on the launch! We're waiting for 1.5 to go gold before we
> move to Manakin.
>
> Dorothea
>
> --
> Dorothea Salo dsalo at library.wisc.edu
> Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw
> University of Wisconsin
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:01:40 -0500
> From: Scott Phillips <scott.a.phillips at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 release roadmap
> To: dspace-general at mit.edu, dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net,	DSpace
> 	Developer List <dspace-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
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>
> DSpace Community,
>
> The second beta release of DSpace 1.5 is now available on
> SourceForge.net. There is no test-a-thon scheduled for this beta
> release. However we would all appreciate everyone updating their
> DSpace test instances with the new beta. Please verify that any bugs
> submitted during the first beta have been corrected. If they have not,
> open or reopen a bug report on SourceForge. Alternatively you may send
> an email to dspace-devel at lists.sourceforge.net with the bug.
>
> As far as the DSpace 1.5 release: we're on schedule, but there is
> still more work to be done. All of the previously identified "release
> critical" bugs have been fixed, there are only a few minor bugs left.
> I expect to cut the first release candidate next monday (3/17) or soon
> thereafter.
>
> Scott--
>
> P.S. It will take few hours for the release to propagate into the
> central maven repository, you may want to wait a few hours before
> updating.
>
>
> On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:58 AM, Scott Phillips wrote:
>
> >
> > DSpace Community,
> >
> > We have seen lots of progress lately to move us more towards the
> > DSpace 1.5 release but there is still more to do. The major road
> > blocks that have been a challenge to over come with this release is
> > the documentation. Looking over the state of things today, there is
> > still work to be done. Although the basic documentation is present
> > -- a system administrator can follow the directions and install a
> > fresh copy of DSpace -- there is still some work to do documenting
> > the upgrade process.However I do not feel that should prevent us
> > from moving forward at this time.
> >
> > Our road map for the next release of DSpace is:
> > 2/13 -- Release Beta 1
> > 2/18 through 2/22 -- DSpace 1.5 test-a-thon
> > 3/10 -- Release Beta 2
> > 3/24 -- Release DSpace 1.5
> > 4/1 -- Open Repositories 2008
> >
> > I very much hope that as many people as possible are able to find
> > some time during the the week of the 18th to give the beta release a
> > test. During this period please help out by testing out the new -
> > and old - features of dspace plus contribute to the available
> > documentation both in the manual and on the wiki.
> >
> > Scott--
>
>
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