Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] Is it OK to add data fields at the database level?

Hi Fiona! I am not a DSpace committer, just adapting it for the internal needs of Belgium PoisonCentre. At my best knowledge, you can alter metadata in the item metadata table but, if the field is indexed by Lucene (fields indicated in the advanced search form), then you will have to

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] 1.4.1 Date Browse empty

Hi Fiona, CC'd to the DSpace tech for any additional comments I sent this to the list last week but havent had any list digest since so I dont know if it got there. This is a critical error for us. We cannot upgrade the live site until we know what is causing this problem. We have

[Dspace-tech] How can register harvested metadata without the items?

Hi, is it possible to register in DSpace only metadata (per item or batch) of items that does not exist in local file system? Any comment will be helpfull, Thanks - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download

[Dspace-tech] Searching PDF-scanned documents: Adobe Capture a solution?

Dear Community Members The Water Research Commission (WRC, South Africa) is currently assessing a pilot installation of DSpace. We want to use DSpace to store, search and retrieve all our WRC research reports and Water SA (a scientific publication, 4 issues pa) issues (this is the primary

Re: [Dspace-tech] Non-ASCII Unicode and searching in DSpace

Yes, this browse problem has been discovered before, and there is a solution to it ;) The ordering is dependent on the 'sort_' columns of the browse table. By altering the normalisation of the data that is stored there, you can affect the way the ordering is done, without the LC_COLLATE side

Re: [Dspace-tech] Searching PDF-scanned documents: Adobe Capture asolution?

Hi, The problem with your scanning attempts is that you are just capturing an image of the page. To have searchable content, you need to perform optical character recognition on the images. According to: http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrcapture/ Then yes, this will create PDFs that contain

[Dspace-tech] Problems with export of a collection

Hello, We have a DSpace 1.4.2 e-archive. We are trying to export a complete collection with dsrun, but... it does not work. A message Error, collection cannot be found: appears as only answer. The sentence used and the answer were: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/dspace/bin# ./dsrun

Re: [Dspace-tech] Problems with export of a collection

Hi David, you do not use the right id. For id you may use the collection id or the handle. I suppose the collection with the handle 2316/114 does not have the collection id 114. Try this: [yourDSpaceInstall]/bin/dsrun org.dspace.app.itemexport.ItemExport -t=COLLECTION -i=2316/114

Re: [Dspace-tech] Searching PDF-scanned documents: Adobe Capture asolution?

Another way to get experience with the quality of Acrobat OCR is to use Acrobat Pro, which can do functionally the same thing, with a less batch-oriented interface. We ended up using this at a fairly large scale to meet a similar need. We have documentation on preparing PDFs that we supply for

[Dspace-tech] DSpace version check

Hi I've seen this question posted before but couldn't find any answers to it. Does anyone know if there is a simple way to tell what version of DSpace you are running (either from the GUI or command line)? Thanks Gary Gary Browne Development Programmer Library IT Services