[Dspace-tech] Listing articles of a given collection in a Departmental webpage
Hi We are running DSpace 1.8.2. Our DSpace instance http://ir.uz.ac.zw is organized along department community/collection. I would like to list articles available in a given departmental collection on their webpage on our University website. I would appreciate any help in to this end. Regards, Admire Mutsikiwa University of Zimbabwe Library -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Listing articles of a given collection in a Departmental webpage
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:34 AM, amutsikiwa amutsik...@uzlib.uz.ac.zw wrote: We are running DSpace 1.8.2. Our DSpace instance http://ir.uz.ac.zw is organized along department community/collection. I would like to list articles available in a given departmental collection on their webpage on our University website. I would appreciate any help in to this end. Hi Admire, I already answered your question. Was the answer not satisfactory? What did you try that did not work? http://www.mail-archive.com/dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17725.html Regards, ~~helix84 -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] DOIs Integration with DSpace
Ryan, Mark, Thank you very much for your insightful input. Lighton Phiri http://lightonphiri.org On 16 July 2012 00:02, Ryan Scherle re...@duke.edu wrote: Lighton, Here are a few more things to consider. First a few brief words about cost, and then my technology rant == About Cost == Yes, DOIs cost more than handles. The actual cost structure depends on which RA you choose, so it's hard to say how much it will cost you, but DOIs will definitely cost more. See EZID fees at http://n2t.net/ezid/home/pricing and CrossRef fees at http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/20pub_fees.html Mark mentioned several benefits that you receive for the cost of DOIs -- I agree with all of those. Essentially, DOIs and the metadata associated with the DOIs are visible/usable by a broader audience than Handles. There are many external services that read data from the DOI system. There are many tools that know how to use DOIs. New tools created in the future are likely to support DOIs. They are somewhat less likely to support Handles. Personally, I think you should consider the cost of starting out with Handles and then later switching to DOIs. Or vice versa. Once your identifiers are publicly available, you'll need to support them forever. It is better if you make the right decision up front. Otherwise, you may end up supporting both systems. == About Technology == Here, I completely disagree with Mark. Yes, DOIs *are* technically superior to Handles. Although the core technologies were the same, the DOI system has evolved and is still getting better, while the Handle system has stayed nearly the same for many years. A few issues to consider: 1) In my experience, new users of DSpace always require a full day to register an Handle prefix and properly configure a Handle server -- hardly out of the box. The process for registering a Handle server involves generating a binary file and sending this binary file to a human, who will then decode the binary file and configure the central Handle system. Why can't the DSpace administrator do this configuration directly with an online tool? Simply because the Handle system hasn't been updated in a very long time. Contrast this with DOIs: Assuming the DSpace code supports your RA, the only setup required will be editing a few fields in a configuration file. 2) The Handle system requires you to run a Handle server on your DSpace machine. The Handle server is a separate process, which is one more piece of technology to manage. It requires the sysadmin to open a separate port to the outside world. It requires maintenance like any other process: ensuring the process starts correctly when a machine is rebooted, monitoring the process to ensure it is working correctly, managing log files, etc. Although all of these are small issues, they add just a little more to the hidden cost of running the system. DOIs don't require an extra process running on your server; they can use the existing DSpace processes. 3) The Handle system only recognizes machines by IP address, not by DNS name. Our production server moved a few weeks ago, and a change of IP address was required. The DOIs continued to work correctly, because they followed the DNS name to the new machine. The Handles broke, because I forgot to send the new IP address to CNRI. And due to the poor implementation discussed above, even though I know what I'm doing and I have good documentation, fixing this problem took about 2 hours. Some of these problems are documented by CNRI: http://www.handle.net/support.html I think many people in the DSpace community have come to accept the pain of the Handle technology as part of the cost of running a repository, which is sad. --- Ryan Scherle --- Data Repository Architect --- Dryad Digital Repository On Jul 15, 2012, at 8:32 PM, Mark Diggory wrote: Lighton, We are working on a contribution to DSpace 3.0 that includes functionality to assign external identifiers such as DOI in DSpace. This is based on work at @mire did with NESCent on Dryad, but also on some funded contribution work that is also happening this summer with WHOI to improve the contribution. Our current situation with DOI integration is that you will need to be registered with an RA. For Dryad, that provider was originally Datacite, but now is EZID. The API used in this situation is novel and unstandardized, each situation we've encountered required custom coding in DSpace, thus what is being contributed is specifically designed to support customizable ID providers on the backend. You will find that the Handle RA is significantly more cost effective than any of the existing DOI RA, this is one of the original intents of using the Handle platform for repositories, where costs are a significant concern. What you are getting with those additional DOI costs are additional services being matketed by those various RA providers, 1. someone else's
Re: [Dspace-tech] Listing articles of a given collection in a Departmental webpage
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:42 AM, amutsikiwa amutsik...@uzlib.uz.ac.zw wrote: Hi Helix, I managed to get something by going to http://ir.uz.ac.zw/xmlui/DRI/handle/10646/4 . However, I am at a loss at how to use the resultant XML file and incorporate it into another website. Regards, Admire Mutsikiwa Please, always CC dspace-tech when replying. That depends on what application you use to generate your webpages. From what I can see you use PHP. So you can read the XML file from the PHP script which generates your page, extract the data you want and display it. I recommend you use SimpleXML [1], it's really simple and will be sufficient for the job. In other words, DSpace gave you the data, what you do with it is up to you. [1] http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php Regards, ~~helix84 -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Listing articles of a given collection in a Departmental webpage
Hi You could use one of the feeds for a collection and then just transform that into HTML. We were looking at enhancing the RSS feed for this purpose. Cheers Steve Sent from my iPhone On 17/07/2012, at 16:58, amutsikiwa amutsik...@uzlib.uz.ac.zwmailto:amutsik...@uzlib.uz.ac.zw wrote: Hi We are running DSpace 1.8.2. Our DSpace instance http://ir.uz.ac.zw is organized along department community/collection. I would like to list articles available in a given departmental collection on their webpage on our University website. I would appreciate any help in to this end. Regards, Admire Mutsikiwa University of Zimbabwe Library -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace REST API
Hi Gary Good to hear you got it working. Hi Peter Yes, there should be separate count endpoints for endpoints such as /items and /communities (E.g. /items/count and /communities/count). I'm working on a CMS-based UI for DSpace but haven't had time to revisit the Github-based API; I'm hoping to revisit in the next 4 - 6 weeks when things quieten down and will test these endpoints thoroughly. I will also update the documentation (it is currently missing docs for sort parameters from the various list endpoints). Cheers Hayden On 17/07/12 08:51, Gary Browne wrote: Hi Peter, Somehow I missed that reply -- great, that did the trick! Thanks a lot, Gary *From:*Peter Dietz [mailto:pdiet...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 July 2012 12:56 AM *To:* Gary Browne *Cc:* dspace-tech Tech *Subject:* Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace REST API Hi Gary, Regarding fixing your 500 error, see my previous response for how to fix it. Either my catalina.log or dspace.log (I forget which) was saying that I had my database config settings wrong instead of my /dspace/config/dspace.cfg, it was looking for a /devel/dspace/config/dspace.cfg. Also, I think you are supposed to run create_integration_test_db.sh https://github.com/hedtek/dspace-rest/blob/master/create_integration_test_db.sh == I did spend a little bit of time trying to build some type of client user interface based off of REST. I couldn't decide if there was a best language/framework for doing this easily, so I just started playing with Play! Framework to make some HTTP requests to the API. It was fairly easy to get started, and it has pre-included support for parsing JSON. A few bugs perhaps... ? The documentation says there is a method to get the count of the number of total collections. https://jspace.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DSPACEAPI/GET_collections_count However, accessing that endpoint didn't seem to do anything, except for error out that it didn't exist. http://localhost:8080/rest/collections/count.xml Same with communities/count.xml When trying to dig deeper, and get the count number of items in a collection, I also ran into issues. collections/:id:/items/count.format just gave me the same data as collections/:id:/items.format If anyone has any app they've written to help test the REST API then I'd be interested in it. (I'm thinking more an app the resembles a DSpace user interface, then a Unit test). I started to look at the GSOC 2011 Rest Client, so I suppose that could be something to look at. Peter Dietz On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Gary Browne gary.bro...@sydney.edu.au mailto:gary.bro...@sydney.edu.au wrote: Hi Hayden, Yes, like helix84 said, I can get a .war output that way which unpacks ok under Tomcat. But I'm new to REST and need some pointers on how to test it. What I started with was issuing URIs to a browser (just manually entering them): http://$dev-server/rest/ This results in a describe page being displayed. Promising, I thought. Let's try one of the entities. When I clicked on communities or communities (xml), once again I get describe pages displaying in the browser. Great. Now if I try something like: http://$dev-server/rest/communities I get a blank page. The catalina log is attached. Would you have any idea what's going on here? I even tried a simple curl script in PHP and didn't get any errors, but also produced a blank page output. Thanks a lot, Gary -Original Message- From: Hayden Young [mailto:haydenyo...@wijiti.com mailto:haydenyo...@wijiti.com] Sent: Wednesday, 11 July 2012 4:17 PM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace REST API Hi Gary Please try changing the following line in your pom.xml from: version1.8.1/version to: version1.8.2/version and see if that solves your issue. Cheers Hayden On 10/07/12 09:55, Gary Browne wrote: Hi Hayden, I'm keen to try this out, however I am unable to install it - should it run ok on 1.8.2? On building (mvn package), I get the following error: [INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.dspace:dspace-rest:war:1.0' in repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2) [INFO] -- -- [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] -- -- [INFO] Failed to resolve artifact. Missing: -- 1) org.dspace:dspace-rest:war:1.0 Try downloading the file manually from the project website. Then, install it using the command: mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.dspace -DartifactId=dspace-rest -Dversion=1.0 -Dpackaging=war -Dfile=/path/to/file Alternatively, if you host your own repository you can deploy the file there: mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=org.dspace -DartifactId=dspace-rest -Dversion=1.0 -Dpackaging=war
Re: [Dspace-tech] Pseudo flash streaming with seeking in Mirage
Hi Tom, Haven't tried it, You would need to alter the xsl file and somehow use a for-each statement. All the best, Evelthon On 07/16/2012 06:15 PM, Thomas Misilo wrote: Hi Evelthon, I was wondering if this supports having more than 1 video file per item? Thanks, Tom *From:*Evelthon Prodromou [mailto:prodromou.evelt...@ucy.ac.cy] *Sent:* Monday, July 16, 2012 7:57 AM *To:* dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* [Dspace-tech] Pseudo flash streaming with seeking in Mirage Hello everyone, I 've written a small how-to on pseudo flash streaming with seeking http://prodromou.eu/2012/07/flash-streaming-in-dspace/, on Mirage theme. It's quite easy, and you should be able to reproduce it yourselves. What's nice in this case is the ability to move to parts of the video that were not downloaded. Not sure if this was described before, but i thought of sharing in case anyone else is interested. All the best, Evelthon -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Uploading and Displaying the Author's passport sized photo
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:00 PM, amutsikiwa amutsik...@uzlib.uz.ac.zw wrote: I am interested in uploading and displaying the Author's passport sized photo together with an article. I will appreciate any help. Hi Admire, in current versions of DSpace, you could enable thumbnails in dspace.cfg (webui.browse.thumbnail.show = true and/or webui.item.thumbnail.show = true) and upload that picture as a thumbnail in the THUMBNAIL bundle of each item. Of course, that has the disadvantage of duplicated images. This might be resolved in the next DSpace version if this code [1] makes it in - it will allow you to have metadata on authors, not just items. So you could store the photos just once (inside or outside DSpace) and then add the link as metadata to the author, which would be then be easy to display. This is the approach I would take unless you need it right away. And there's also a third option - you could store the pictures somewhere (again, inside or outside DSpace) and then associate them with the authors by name. The easiest thing would be to store the picture as file with the author's name and then render the link like this: img src=/someplace/Author's Name.jpg /. On the item/search result's page, you could simply take the author's name and put it into the URL. Of course, this makes it almost impossible (i.e. unless you use auhtorities) to distinguish between two distinct authors with the same name. [1] https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/12 Regards, ~~helix84 -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
