[Dspace-tech] problem logging in when SSL security is enabled

2009-08-02 Thread Andrew Marlow
For the first time I tried turning on SSL security in dspace.cfg and got some problems when going to the login screen. Fist, for some strange reason the link did not include the tomcat port number. When I edited the URL, putting the port number in, I got this error: An error occurred during a

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] [Dspace-general] show HTML data

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Marlow
FWFW, I have seen lengthly and complex abstracts with alot of markup including math and/or chemistry markup, including embedded LaTeX. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Mark H. Wood mw...@iupui.edu wrote: Now, *I* think that an abstract should be a single brief block of text -- three, perhaps

[Dspace-tech] worrying about usage event reporting when the number of articles is very large

2009-06-17 Thread Andrew Marlow
I am working on a proprietary digital library whilst at the same time considering how dspace might have been used to solve the same problems (it won't be, but that's another story). When I consider usage event reporting there are some concerns that arise when the number of articles and visitors is

Re: [Dspace-tech] Any way to reorder the lists of communities/collections?

2009-06-15 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:49 PM, gathub thermalfluids...@gmail.com wrote: Right now, all the communities and collections are listed alphabetically when displayed. My managers are looking to give a specific order to the collections; maybe ordering them by their ID number or time created. I

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] How to improve statistical data gathering and reporting?

2009-05-15 Thread Andrew Marlow
that are books I have a separate TOC. It would be useful to distinguish between counts for the book and counts for the TOC. Regards, Andrew Marlow -- Regards, Andrew M. http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk -- Crystal Reports - New

[Dspace-tech] Why the DSpace checksum checker?

2009-04-17 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello DSpacers, I came across the checksum checker recently and I don't understand why it is useful. Here is what I found on the WIKI:- --- DSpace now comes with a Checksum Checker script (*[dspace]*/bin/checker) which can be scheduled to verify the checksum of every item within DSpace. Since

Re: [Dspace-tech] How can i create 'cron' Jobs for windows

2009-04-17 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Robin Taylor robin.tay...@ed.ac.ukwrote: Hi Ruth, Cron is a Unix feature. The equivelant feature in Windows would be 'Scheduled Tasks' http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308569. Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor If you are using cygwin on Windoze there is a port

[Dspace-tech] journal volumes, issues, article and the introductory text metadata

2009-04-02 Thread Andrew Marlow
I am planning to use model journals, volumes, issues and articles by having a journal as a collection and all the articles as items within that collection. I plan to use the introductory text metadata in a collection to hold the volume, issue, article ordering id, year, month and page range for

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Survey on Metadata Schema Usage in DSpace

2009-03-25 Thread Andrew Marlow
Yes, I have altered the dspace metadata schema. I have added fields to provide better support to organise journals by volume and issue. I added a volume number and issue number (these are both strings e.g volume CXIV issue 1a) and an article number for ordering within an issue. At the article

Re: [Dspace-tech] dc.relation.xxx

2009-03-19 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Lyn Amery lyn.am...@sro.wa.gov.au wrote: I'm not overly familiar with metadata schemas and their possible uses. I'm wondering if I might make use of the relation fields, e.g. dc.relation.ispartof for the following situation. We collect archival material

[Dspace-tech] google summer of code 2009, DSpace, CML and jmol

2009-03-19 Thread Andrew Marlow
Can anyone edit.change the DSpace google summer of code page at http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code_Ideas? What is the procedure for adding new ideas? I would like to see an entry for adding more support for CML (Chemical Markup Language). Projects such as eCrystals use jmol embedded

[Dspace-tech] build/install instructions for dspace2?

2009-03-16 Thread Andrew Marlow
In a desparate attempt to get dspace working with mySQL (and later on, sybase) I am considering moving to dspace2. But I cannot find the build/install instructions. I tried mvn package and that seems to build it but I cannot any build.xml files so I cannot say and fresh_install. Can anone help me

[Dspace-tech] desparate for mysql database_schema.sql

2009-03-14 Thread Andrew Marlow
Please, does anyone have a database_schema.sql file my mySQL? There must be a version out there somewhere... -- Regards, Andrew M. http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and

[Dspace-tech] rendering HTML from metadata

2009-03-09 Thread Andrew Marlow
I have heard that publishers like to have articles available as both HTML and PDF, where the HTML is rendered using from a version of the document they have as metadata. I wonder what scope there is to do this in DSpace. I realise that that there is a problem in that we will probably never get

[Dspace-tech] ant fresh_install fails when trying to init mySQL database

2009-03-07 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello guys, I have found out what the db.url for mySQL is supposed to be. Er, or at last I think so. I have set it to: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/dspace But when I say ant fresh_install I get connection refused. The stack trace is at the end of this email. When I do a netstat -an I see that

[Dspace-tech] dspace from svn, maven and xstream build problems

2009-03-07 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello, I cannot build the latest dspace from svn due to a compilation error that looks to be to do with it picking up an old version of xstream. There seems to be an indirect maven dependency on xstream 1.2.2 but the compilation fails with java6. I think I need to use xstream 1.3.1. However, I do

[Dspace-tech] download citation in EndNote format

2009-03-05 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello, I was browsing to see what plans (if any) there are to add a citation export facility to Dspace, when I came across this: http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/orblog/category/Open+Repository+Development. It looks like it has already been done for OpenRepository, which is based on

Re: [Dspace-tech] download citation in EndNote format

2009-03-05 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Graham Triggs gra...@biomedcentral.comwrote: Morning, Yes, I do know more about it ;) It was developed just prior to the 1.5 release, and I had been targetting getting it into that release. However, we were entering a phase of stabilising the code at that

[Dspace-tech] citations, journals, volumes, issues, articles and dublin core

2009-02-22 Thread Andrew Marlow
Although I am new to digital libraries, I am shocked and suprised that dublin core seems to have insufficient support for organising journal articles by journal, volume and issue. According to current discussions this sort of data, combined with a few other things such as the page range within the

Re: [Dspace-tech] adding static pages to a DSpace site using xmlui

2009-02-20 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Pottinger, Hardy J. pottinge...@umsystem.edu wrote: Hi, I'm dotting an 'i' with this message... I have found that the approach detailed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04894.h

[Dspace-tech] search not working for new metadata I've added

2009-02-19 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello, I added volumenumber to the metadata for some items I have. I set it to 147 in all case (more data to follow). But when I search for volume number using volumenumber:147 it returns no results. This is in spite of adding the index to dspace.cfg and doing a reindex. What am I doing wrong

[Dspace-tech] enhancement so a collection can be queried during XSL processing

2009-02-12 Thread Andrew Marlow
I have been trying to get a theme together for journals. I have looked at the Periodicals theme from TDL as a starting point (thanks to the TDL guys for helping me there). It gives me the kind of organisation that I want, namely by volume and issue, but at a cost. I have to add some metadata to

[Dspace-tech] help needed with collection search and metadata please

2009-02-12 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello, I am tinkering with a theme based on the TDL Periodicals. I have added a namespace and field so I now have volumenumber as additional metadata on my items. Where my Periodicals.xml shows the items in a collection for each item it creates a hyperlink that allows the user to browse the

Re: [Dspace-tech] how to configure DSpace for CML files

2009-02-10 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Simon Brown st...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On 9 Feb 2009, at 19:40, Andrew Marlow wrote: Please, can someone please tell me how to configure DSpace to recognise CML files? Your DSpace would need an entry for CML in the metadata registry; Yes, I have done

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace Installation in Windows (dspace.cfg)

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Rathipriya K rathi.pri...@gmail.com wrote: Am also facing same issue described below. Why is dpsace.dir path not getting uploaded properly in web.xml. If it uploades also not the full path with /. instead just only the names. Once I edit the path in web.xml ,

[Dspace-tech] how do themes get chosen in xmlui.xconf?

2009-02-08 Thread Andrew Marlow
Can someone please explain how themes get chosen in xmlui.xconf using regex? I know about regular expessions but I do not know what the matching with when used in xmlui.xconf. I am using themes from TDL whcih have been posted here. I want TDL to be the main theme but I want my journals to use the

[Dspace-tech] help needed with search by ispartofseries please

2009-02-07 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello DSpacers, I have added some articles to my DSpace which are all for the same journal, same volume, spread between two separate issue numbers. I have specified volume and issue number using dc.relation.ispartofseries. But when I search for the volume and issue I get nothing. When I replace

Re: [Dspace-tech] Reading dspace DB from other applications

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Kim Shepherd k...@waikato.ac.nz wrote: Hi all, I'm currently developing a standalone stats package to analyse dspace logs and generate usage reports based on some custom requirements (similar to built-in stats, but with per-author views/downloads statistics,

Re: [Dspace-tech] Bug (?) opening a PDF in IR via firefox

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Diggory Mark mdigg...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, we encountered this problem as well with Firefox. Terry Reese from Oregon State told me that there was a patch posted sometime ago that forces the browser to initiate a download by setting the Content-Disposition

Re: [Dspace-tech] Reading dspace DB from other applications - tangent!

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Robin Taylor robin.tay...@ed.ac.uk wrote: Sorry, I assumed everyone magically knew what I was thinking about :) The University of Minho produced a stats package a while back which has proved popular, it can be found at

Re: [Dspace-tech] Reading dspace DB from other applications - tangent !

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Robin Taylor robin.tay...@ed.ac.uk wrote: Hi Kim, Apologies for sort of hijacking your thread, I have renamed the title to allow separate replies. It sounds to me like you have taken a similar approach to the Minho guys who? eh? in that you take the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Speed problem in postgres during batch ingesting

2009-01-27 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Stuart Lewis s...@aber.ac.uk wrote: Hi Ilias, I am using the dspace import tool for batch ingesting in a Postgres database and I am facing extremely slow feedback in each record commitment. The following paper talks about this, and how DSpace performs

Re: [Dspace-tech] Java for DSpace? and customizations - Thanks!

2009-01-27 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[NCI INFORMATION SYSTEMS] susan.m.thorn...@nasa.gov wrote: Next, I just found this in the pom.xml file under dspace-source-…/ : *Java 1.5 is our officially endorsed build target platform.* Is this going to be a problem for anyone

Re: [Dspace-tech] How to order the articles within an issue

2009-01-27 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Scott Phillips scott.a.phill...@gmail.comwrote: You may want to look at a Journal collection we've done. It doesn't completely address the problem you're asking about but is in the same sphere, and i second what Mark said, it is likely best to not use

Re: [Dspace-tech] How to order the articles within an issue

2009-01-23 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Scott Phillips scott.a.phill...@gmail.comwrote: You may want to look at a Journal collection we've done. It doesn't completely address the problem you're asking about but is in the same sphere, and i second what Mark said, it is likely best to not use

[Dspace-tech] ISSN and dublin core

2009-01-22 Thread Andrew Marlow
I have recently found out that a journal article may have two ISSNs. One is the print ISSN and appears (typically) on the front cover of the article. The other is the electronic ISSN. I am not sure where that comes from but it is in some metadata I have seen. The metadata is not dublin core (dc).

[Dspace-tech] How to order the articles within an issue

2009-01-22 Thread Andrew Marlow
I am trying to set up a DSpace that models societies, journals, issues and articles. Each article is an item. The collection that contains the items is an issue. The journal that publishes the issue(s) is a sub-community, and the society that publishes the journal(s) is a community. My question

Re: [Dspace-tech] How to order the articles within an issue

2009-01-22 Thread Andrew Marlow
then customize your presentation and search to Group Articles under Issues. Thanks for suggesting this. I will have a careful think about it. -Mark On Jan 22, 2009, at 1:41 AM, Andrew Marlow wrote: -- Regards, Andrew M. http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk

[Dspace-tech] internal error invoking controlled vocabulary search via jspui

2009-01-17 Thread Andrew Marlow
I am still struggling to get controlled vocabularies working. I searched for any examples of controlled vocabularies in action and found this site: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/subject-search. I note that in my DSpace I do not get this URL form when I click on Subject. So I tried entering

[Dspace-tech] trouble getting controlled vocabularies to work

2009-01-16 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello DSpacers, I am trying to get the controlled vocabulary feature working using SRSC but it is not working for me. As per the manual I have enabled the feature in dspace.cfg by setting webui.controlledvocabulary.enable to true. I have also edited input-forms.xml, putting a vocabulary tag under

[Dspace-tech] help needed with breadcrumb layout please

2009-01-16 Thread Andrew Marlow
I am trying to customize my DSpace using xmlui and I need some help with the way breadcrumbs are displayed. My layout is based on Classic but I would like the breadcrumbs to be displayed the way they are in Reference. I cannot see where in the style.css to do this. In Classic the breadcrumbs are

Re: [Dspace-tech] help needed with breadcrumb layout please

2009-01-16 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Stuart Lewis s...@aber.ac.uk wrote: Hi Andrew, I am trying to customize my DSpace using xmlui and I need some help with the way breadcrumbs are displayed. My layout is based on Classic but I would like the breadcrumbs to be displayed the way they are in

Re: [Dspace-tech] Not found FOM_WebContinuation$UserObject even thoughit is there

2009-01-15 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Van Ly v...@library.usyd.edu.au wrote: Andrew, Try exposing the value of CLASSPATH in the context of where java is called for DSpace. Locate your .jar file and check its path is listed in CLASSPATH. I have found a way to make the problem go away. I have

[Dspace-tech] Not found FOM_WebContinuation$UserObject even though it is there

2009-01-14 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello DSpacers, I am quite desperate to resolve the problem I am having on debian running any kind of admin function within DSpace. I get the exception shown below. One way is to try to create a community but it seems like it happens when I try to create anything. The so-called missing class is

Re: [Dspace-tech] Not found FOM_WebContinuation$UserObject even thoughit is there

2009-01-14 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[NCI INFORMATION SYSTEMS] susan.m.thorn...@nasa.gov wrote: The error message is actually looking for WebContinuation$UserObject in org/apache/cocoon/components/flow/*JAVASCRIPT*/fom and your grep found it in

[Dspace-tech] performance problems browing communities with large number of members

2009-01-14 Thread Andrew Marlow
I have created a journals community with over 1,400 sub-communities (phew!). These sub-communities are the journal titles. Within each sub-community there will be sub-sub-communities, one per issue (an issue will be a collection). When viewing the journals community it takes ages to load the page

Re: [Dspace-tech] trouble with tomcat, java security and logging

2009-01-13 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Stuart Lewis s...@aber.ac.uk wrote: Hi Andrew, I mistakenly thought that my access denied problem with DSpace and xmlui was to do with logging. Actually I think it might be to do with the default java security policy, which might be more strictly

[Dspace-tech] Fwd: FW: what are the licensing issues when a digital library uses DDC?

2009-01-13 Thread Andrew Marlow
did wonder why no one else had (apparently) tried to make contact. -- Forwarded message -- From: Crawford,Libbie crawf...@oclc.org Date: Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:03 PM Subject: RE: FW: what are the licensing issues when a digital library uses DDC? To: Andrew Marlow marlow.and

Re: [Dspace-tech] trouble with tomcat, java security and logging

2009-01-13 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Stuart Lewis s...@aber.ac.uk wrote: Hi Andrew, AFAIK, it is a Tomcat issue, not a DSpace or Java 6 issue. Tomcat has supported the use of a security manager over many past versions, it is just that some package distributions are starting to turn this on

[Dspace-tech] exception when creating community

2009-01-13 Thread Andrew Marlow
I am still having trouble setting up DSpace on debian (no problems on windoze). The main page comes up now and I can login but when I try to create a community I get the exception below. Can anybody let me know what I am doing wrong please? javax.servlet.ServletException:

[Dspace-tech] how about DSpace using sl4j instead of log4j?

2009-01-12 Thread Andrew Marlow
Over the weekend I had a go at setting up DSpace on my debian system and I have to say it would not as smooth as when I set it up on Windoze. Part of the problem was in getting it to be invoked ok from tomcat. Eventually I found why I was getting 404. It was due to a failure to initialise the

[Dspace-tech] trouble with tomcat, java security and logging

2009-01-12 Thread Andrew Marlow
I mistakenly thought that my access denied problem with DSpace and xmlui was to do with logging. Actually I think it might be to do with the default java security policy, which might be more strictly enforced in java6. I think I need some sort of 'grant' directive for File.Permission but I am not

Re: [Dspace-tech] Create sub-communities in XMLUI ?

2009-01-08 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Rui Ramos rra...@reit.up.pt wrote: Hello, Can any one tell me, how can a user (not admin) with READ,WRITE permissions in a community create sub-communities in the XMLUI interface ? It is possible in the JSPUI version, but i can't seem to do it in the

[Dspace-tech] The main difference between journal browsing and book browsing

2009-01-08 Thread Andrew Marlow
I am considering adding books to my DSpace Digital Library (DL) prototype. It occurs to me that maybe DSpace is actually much more geared to journals than to books. It is natural to browse by community when browsing journals because the communities can be named after the society and journal names.

Re: [Dspace-tech] subject hierarchy using Dewey Decimal would allow more user friendly browsing

2009-01-08 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Mark Jordan mjor...@sfu.ca wrote: I have only seen a license for when one uses software that the OCLC has written. I do not intend to ever use any of their software, but I would like to classify articles and books using DDC. Do I still need a

Re: [Dspace-tech] problem executing create-administrator

2009-01-07 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Keith Gilbertson ke...@ohiolink.edu wrote: For what it's worth, I've had somewhat similar problems executing the scripts in the bin directory after transferring them from a Windows-based machine to a Unix-like system. You might check that the line endings in

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace and MySQL

2009-01-07 Thread Andrew Marlow
/12/24 Andrew Marlow marlow.and...@googlemail.com: By trawling the web I see that othershave asked in the past about DSpace supporting MySQL. Soneone even submitted a patch for it, I believe, but this appears not to have made it into 1.5.1. However, versions with the changes necessary

[Dspace-tech] Fwd: DSpace support for citations

2009-01-06 Thread Andrew Marlow
-- Forwarded message -- From: Andrew Marlow marlow.and...@googlemail.com Date: Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:46 AM Subject: DSpace support for citations To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net hello, This is another question that demonstrates I am still learning DSpace

[Dspace-tech] where is the right place to discuss DSpace and chemical databases?

2009-01-06 Thread Andrew Marlow
I am considering how a Digital Library that is based on DSpace might handle chemical structures. I am thinking of something more than PubChem, although something like PubChem from within DSpace would be great. Is this the right place to discuss such things please? -- Regards, Andrew M.

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace and MySQL

2008-12-30 Thread Andrew Marlow
of DSpace?. Should I be looking at 2.0 instead? Thanks, Mika 2008/12/24 Andrew Marlow marlow.and...@googlemail.com: By trawling the web I see that othershave asked in the past about DSpace supporting MySQL. Soneone even submitted a patch for it, I believe, but this appears not to have made

[Dspace-tech] need for registered keywords in articles to facilitate searching

2008-12-24 Thread Andrew Marlow
I would like to see DSpace enhanced so that one can register keywords with an article. Going to the article should show the registered keywords. These keywords should participate in searches, i.e when a keyword is entered those articles that have it in their registered list should be returned as

[Dspace-tech] DSpace and MySQL

2008-12-24 Thread Andrew Marlow
By trawling the web I see that othershave asked in the past about DSpace supporting MySQL. Soneone even submitted a patch for it, I believe, but this appears not to have made it into 1.5.1. However, versions with the changes necessary for MySQL are out there. See the article about one million

Re: [Dspace-tech] Copyright, Dewey decimal and the gutenberg project

2008-12-23 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:04 PM, John Mark Ockerbloom ocker...@pobox.upenn.edu wrote: Andrew Marlow wrote: Your web site is great. Yes, the subject hierachy you have is the sort of thing I am after. I did not see the traditional breadcums that show the hierarchy though. You have opted

[Dspace-tech] java.lang.OutOfMemory with large number of communities

2008-12-23 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello, I am finding that I get java.lang.OutOfMemory errors when I have a large number of communities created. I have around 1500. With the exception of one test community they are all empty at the moment but going to the home page where the list gets displayed and it frequently invokes the out

[Dspace-tech] customizing dspace - my experiences so far

2008-12-23 Thread Andrew Marlow
I have had a devil of a job working out how to customize dspace. I eventually met with some success and have blogged about it at http://marlowa.blogspot.com/2008/12/customizing-dspace-v151.html. Feel free to add your own comments/insights/tips etc. -- Regards, Andrew M.

[Dspace-tech] authentication and default access level

2008-12-23 Thread Andrew Marlow
I want to explore IP authentication but it seems like DSpace lets me in for browsing without me having to authenticate. I disabled the password authentication and just had it set up for IP authentication only but it still lets me see the collections. What I am doing wrong please? I am using dspace

Re: [Dspace-tech] authentication and default access level

2008-12-23 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Claudia Juergen claudia.juer...@ub.uni-dortmund.de wrote: Hi Andrew, restrictions apply only for item view and bitstream view, the browse and search are not affected by it. Hope that helps Claudia Jürgen Well that does shed some light, thanks. However,

Re: [Dspace-tech] Search results include items with access restrictios

2008-12-22 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:24 AM, mikan.d.dspace listmail mikan.dsp...@gmail.com wrote: Actually i found a simple solution for this problem of mine. Just testing whether the user is authenticated or not. I added the following lines to my template.xsl: xsl:template match=dri:options

[Dspace-tech] DSpace support for citations

2008-12-18 Thread Andrew Marlow
hello, This is another question that demonstrates I am still learning DSpace what support is there for citations please? The DSpace manual hardly mentions them at all. There is a brief mention because there is a dublin core field for citation, but no detail is given. The reason I am asking

[Dspace-tech] DSpace, citations, citeseerx

2008-12-18 Thread Andrew Marlow
hello, I have been thinking some more about how I might use DSpace for my prototype digital library (DL) and am now considering how citations will be handled. DSpace doesn't seem to have much to say about that at the moment. I notice on the WIKI it says there is a Google Summer of Code project (

Re: [Dspace-tech] subject hierachy using Dewey Decimal would allow more user friendly browsing

2008-12-17 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Claudia Jürgen claudia.juer...@ub.uni-dortmund.de wrote: Hi Andrew, controlled vocabulary. Can someone explain what this is about please? http://www.w3.org/WAI). I cannot see anything in WAI that has any bearing on The UI with controlled vocabulary is not

[Dspace-tech] help needed with controlled vocabularies

2008-12-17 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello, I am trying to get controlled vocabularies to work. The DSpace manual is very light on detail (section 5.6.2). I have enabled them in dspace.cfg and ensured that the vocab is attached to dc.subject in input-forms.xml. I am using srsc (Swedish Research Subject Categories) just to try it

[Dspace-tech] Copyright, Dewey decimal and the gutenberg project

2008-12-17 Thread Andrew Marlow
I have found there is a copy of the Dewey Decimal system in project gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12513/12513-h/12513-h.htm. The release date is 4th June 2004. I am not sure if this is the release date of the gutenberg file or of the actual Dewey Decimal document itself I know that

[Dspace-tech] subject hierachy using Dewey Decimal would allow more user friendly browsing

2008-12-16 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello DSpacers, I would like to be able to browse the subjects hierachically. I am not sure if DSpace can do that. What I mean is that assuming I have categorized all my journal articles with multiple db.subject values I want to start at science (let's say) then drill down to chemistry, then

Re: [Dspace-tech] standards to facilitate metadata extraction duringtext extraction

2008-12-15 Thread Andrew Marlow
. But I do not want the discussion to focus on file formats. As I said originally, But if a society had conventions for the layout of the article, specifying location and format of title, authors, abstract, bibliography etc, then it might be possible -Original Message- From: Andrew

[Dspace-tech] structure import problem with French and German accented characters

2008-12-15 Thread Andrew Marlow
I have created an XML file for a structure import, based on a CSV file I have of journal titles. I am converting the CSV to XML using a bit of perl. Everything is fine until I introduce journal titles that contain accented characters. For example, one title contains the German word 'fur' with u

[Dspace-tech] how to zap the DSpace database quickly and start again

2008-12-15 Thread Andrew Marlow
Now that I have done several experiments with bulk imports using StructBuilder, my DSpace database is full of rubbish. Can anyone please tell me what is the best way to zap the database so I can start again? I don't want to do a complete reinstall of DSpace, I would lose config info and XMLUI

[Dspace-tech] StructBuilder says I am not authorized

2008-12-15 Thread Andrew Marlow
I am now having trouble running the StructBuilder. Here is the error I get: Using DSpace installation in: G:\mystuff\tools\dspace-1.5.1-src-release\dspace\target\dspace-1.5.1-build.dir Exception in thread main org.dspace.authorize.AuthorizeException: Only administrators can create communities

Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: weird file not found problem when changing

2008-12-14 Thread Andrew Marlow
=/xmlui docBase=c:\dspace\webapps\xmlui I wonder what I am doing wrong. -Andrew Marlow -- Regards, Andrew M. -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen

[Dspace-tech] using pdfbox to extract text from PDFs to facilitate full text searching

2008-12-13 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello, I have just built and installed pdfbox so I could try out its PDF to text conversion. It seems quite good and very fast, based on the small simple example I gave it (which was a real technical journal). I am very tempted to use this to generate text files for all the PDFs that I will be

[Dspace-tech] standards to facilitate metadata extraction during text extraction

2008-12-13 Thread Andrew Marlow
This may seem like a crazy or naive question, but is there any standard laid down by publishers or societies that authors must adhere to so that the extraction of metadata from articles can be easily automated? Having just performed a text extraction on a non-searchable PDF I see that there is no

Re: [Dspace-tech] dublin core and multiple subject categorizations

2008-12-12 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Kim Shepherd k...@waikato.ac.nz wrote: Hi Andrew, Metadata doesn't quite work this way. There may only be one element defined in your DC schema, but it can be repeated in an item's metadata for as many values as you need. I didn't know that. DSpace has

[Dspace-tech] searching, PDFs, HTML and XML

2008-12-12 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello, Now that I have loaded a few PDFs into my DSpace repo, I am wondering how to enable full text searching. The PDFs happen to be in a form that means they cannot be searched directly. So when I search in DSpace I get no results returned (unless the text also appears in the abstract I entered

[Dspace-tech] dc.subject when the item is a book?

2008-12-12 Thread Andrew Marlow
I just tried adding a book to my DSpace collection for the first time today. After adding it I went to edit the metadata and was suprised to see that unlike journal articles, book metadata does not have dc.subject! How do I specify subject(s) for a book please? -- Regards, Andrew M.

Re: [Dspace-tech] searching, PDFs, HTML and XML

2008-12-12 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Shane Beers sbe...@gmu.edu wrote: Andrew: Performing OCR on a PDF document is, as far as I know, the most widely used method to search a PDF document. I see. I didnt know that. Is there a specific reason you do not want the PDFs to be searchable? I

[Dspace-tech] METS and DSpace

2008-12-12 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello James, I saw your note at http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets-registry.htmlabout adding METS support to DSpace. I am new to DSpace and to digital libraries generally, so I could be wrong, but AFAIK DSpace does not support METS yet. Am I right? If so then I wonder what the status of this

[Dspace-tech] enhancement request for UI user friendliness

2008-12-11 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello, Now I have started seriously using DSpace I notice that there are many form buttons you can click but no keyboard accelerators. I wonder how easy/difficult it would be to add these. Without them I am forced to use the mouse much more. -- Regards, Andrew M.

[Dspace-tech] searchable PDFs and HTML versions

2008-12-11 Thread Andrew Marlow
I am loading some non-searchable PDFs into my dspace setup. I would like there to be an HTML version of the article in the item. I presume this will involve making the item a bundle (i.e. PDF and HTML). My hope is that the HTML will be searchable. But I dont know how to get the HTML version from

[Dspace-tech] weird file not found problem when changing manakin theme

2008-12-10 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello, I tried to change the theme from Reference to Kubrick just as an experiment as I start the learn manakin and after restarting tomcat I got a Resource not found error when I refreshed my dspace page. After some poking around I gave up and reverted to the original Reference theme. But now

[Dspace-tech] possible bug in handling of copyright symbol in messages.xml

2008-12-10 Thread Andrew Marlow
hello, Whilst customising my theme I altered the message for xmlui.dri1zhtml.structural.footer-promotional to contain a copyright statement. Everything is fine until I tried to add the copyright symbol using copy;. Then the page rendered with garbage, showing the guts of how the html is

[Dspace-tech] understanding communities, collections and items

2008-12-10 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello, Now that I have finally got DSpace working and I have been able to customize the xmlui so it looks more like what I want, I am ready to consider importing documents into it. So I have to look at how they will organised with respect to communities, collections and items. But I have a

[Dspace-tech] help with Manakin desperately needed

2008-12-09 Thread Andrew Marlow
I am having trouble getting Dspace to work with a version of manakin that I have downloaded (from svn). The installation instructions say: Compile Manakin using an existing DSpace source tree to link against. Use the dspace ant parameter to tell Manakin where your DSpace source directory is, as

Re: [Dspace-tech] help with Manakin desperately needed

2008-12-09 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Claudia Juergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, seems as if you're following instructions dated before the integration of Manakin as xmlui in the DSpace source. Just follow the default installation instructions. Finished with these you'll find both jspui

Re: [Dspace-tech] recognise user by IP address

2008-12-07 Thread Andrew Marlow
François Parmentier / INIST-CNRS On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Claudia Jürgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, you can add ip based authentication to the authentication stack in DSpace and define authentication rules via the config parameter authentication.ip.GROUPNAME = iprange[,

Re: [Dspace-tech] JASIG conference and call for proposals

2008-12-07 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Michele Kimpton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear members of DSpace ( sorry for cross posting): Last year a number of us attended the JASIG conference and it was great to learn and share experiences with other developers, managers and implementors of open source

Re: [Dspace-tech] recognise user by IP address

2008-12-07 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Claudia Juergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, it is possible to use wildcards and/or ranges. you can add ip based authentication to the authentication stack in DSpace and define authentication rules via the config parameter

[Dspace-tech] recognise user by IP address

2008-12-01 Thread Andrew Marlow
Hello, please excuse my ignorance about dspace, I am new here. What do people think to the idea of identifying users by their IP address? This would be an alternative to logging in via the traditional username+password. This would be associated with an administrative function that registered user

[Dspace-tech] dspace usage statistics and COUNTER compliancy

2008-11-28 Thread Andrew Marlow
Please excuse my ignorance but I am new to digital libraries... I do not see any reference in the space usage statistics to COUNTER. See http://www.projectcounter.org/articles.html for the detailed COUNTER specs. COUNTER stands for Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources. It is

[Dspace-tech] dspace and xmlui environmental problems after installation

2008-11-27 Thread Andrew Marlow
hello, I am still struggling with setting up dspace. I finally got it working with jspui after editing the jspui/WEB-INF/web.xml file to specify the full pathname to the dspace.cfg file. I think the need to do this should be more clearly documented. I then went on to try using xmlui instead. It

Re: [Dspace-tech] dspace and xmlui environmental problems after installation

2008-11-27 Thread Andrew Marlow
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Mr Havercamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody shed any light on this please? I am keen to use xmlui instead of jspui because I want to move to using manakin. -- Regards, Andrew M. I have a similar issue when trying to run xml ui and it turned out

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