[Dspace-tech] online discussion tomorrow: workflows in DSpace

2011-03-22 Thread Platt, Alice
Tomorrow we will begin the our next DSpace Online Discussion. At 9 a.m. on Wednesday, March 23 (Eastern Standard Time) we will begin our discussion about our institutional workflows in DSpace. I hope you can participate. Following is some information about the online discussion: The

[Dspace-tech] March 23-24, 2011: DSpace e-forum on the General Listserv

2011-03-02 Thread Platt, Alice
DSpace e-forum: an online discussion On March 23 and 24, DuraSpace volunteers will host the next electronic discussion forum. March 23-24, 2011 Collaborating with contributors: project workflows moderated by Alice Platt, Southern New Hampshire University Many institutional repository managers

[Dspace-tech] inserting image into item display

2011-03-02 Thread Platt, Alice
Hi everyone, I didn't receive a response from my last post, so I thought I would try again. Please see message below. Thank you! -Original Message- From: Platt, Alice Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 8:25 PM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: inserting image into item display

[Dspace-tech] inserting image into item display

2011-02-25 Thread Platt, Alice
Hello tech users, Using DSpace 1.5.2 XML user interface I would like to add functionality to the simple item display so that if the bitstream is an image, it displays in the simple item view, above the item summary table. I know where I would put this code, but I don't know what code I would

[Dspace-tech] Reminder: January 20, 2011: DSpace e-forum on the General Listserv

2011-01-14 Thread Platt, Alice
Next week! DSpace e-forum: an online discussion Next Thursday-Friday, January 20-21, DuraSpace volunteers will host the first electronic discussion forum. This two-day moderated forum will provide an opportunity for practitioners to discuss topics through the DSpace-General listserv. If you

[Dspace-tech] January 20, 2011: DSpace e-forum on the General Listserv

2010-12-21 Thread Platt, Alice
DSpace e-forum: an online discussion On January 20-21, a volunteer from the DuraSpace community will moderate an electronic discussion forum, the first in a pilot series. These two-day moderated electronic discussion forums will provide an opportunity for practitioners to discuss topics

Re: [Dspace-tech] How to change submission forms

2010-07-30 Thread Platt, Alice
Hi Amjad, in the XMLUI version of DSpace, you need to change the input-forms.xml file. Alice Platt Digital Initiatives Librarian Shapiro Library Southern New Hampshire University USA Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:10:48 +0600 From: AMJAD USMAN amjad...@hotmail.com Subject: [Dspace-tech] How

Re: [Dspace-tech] Bypass The Upload File Step

2010-05-27 Thread Platt, Alice
Hi Scott, Yes, this is possible. I know that in DSpace 1.5, in the config file look for webui.submit.upload.required and set it to false. I am not yet familiar with 1.6, but I imagine the configuration would be similar. Alice Platt Digital Initiatives Librarian Shapiro Library Southern New

Re: [Dspace-tech] authorizing access to metadata

2010-03-15 Thread Platt, Alice
Hi Jamil, I am able to do this in DSpace 1.5.2 in the XMLUI, after the item has been added to DSpace: Go to item record Click Edit This Item Click the Authorizations button At the Item Level (the top level), click the READ link Select the group you wish to have access - for me it was

[Dspace-tech] Item level statistics for XMLUI

2009-12-16 Thread Platt, Alice
Hi Federico, Did you ever get a response to your question? I also have the same question and hope someone can offer relevant information. We are using DSpace 1.5.2, XMLUI, on a Windows server, and also need to implement item-level statistics for our collection. I did not realize that the Minho

Re: [Dspace-tech] Edit License in Dspace

2009-12-02 Thread Platt, Alice
Hello Baseer, I am only familiar with 1.5 XMLUI, so I am not sure if it works the same way in the JSP interface. But this is how it works in the XMLUI: When you change the license, it is not retroactive; this means, it only changes for the items you add after you change the license. As far as

[Dspace-tech] incredibly shrinking text

2009-11-12 Thread Platt, Alice
I haven't gotten any feedback to the following question... hoping for some ideas. Currently, in Internet Explorer only, the submission form text gets smaller and smaller as I scroll down the page. The sidebar is also very, very, very tiny. The text gets so small that it is not readable. I have

Re: [Dspace-tech] incredibly shrinking text

2009-11-12 Thread Platt, Alice
shrinking text To: Stuart Lewis s.le...@auckland.ac.nz Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net,Platt, Alice a.pl...@snhu.edu Message-ID: 4afc7284.7000...@duraspace.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed (Note for others: Alice

Re: [Dspace-tech] possible to search for records with/without bitstream

2009-10-28 Thread Platt, Alice
Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Platt, Alice wrote: Hello all, DSpace 1.5.2: Does anyone know if it is possible to configure the Advanced Search so that the records displayed can be narrowed down by the presence, or lack of, a bitstream? We may have several records without

[Dspace-tech] possible to search for records with/without bitstream?

2009-10-27 Thread Platt, Alice
Hello all, DSpace 1.5.2: Does anyone know if it is possible to configure the Advanced Search so that the records displayed can be narrowed down by the presence, or lack of, a bitstream? We may have several records without bitstreams, and it seems it would be very helpful for people to search

Re: [Dspace-tech] two theme modification questions: linking author

2009-10-09 Thread Platt, Alice
Yes! Thank you, that worked, and I was able to make my subject links clickable too. Alice -Original Message- From: Keith Gilbertson [mailto:keith.gilbert...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:12 AM To: Platt, Alice Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace

Re: [Dspace-tech] two theme modification questions: linking author

2009-10-07 Thread Platt, Alice
that created the browse link. Grrr. I had also planned to link the Subject... I imagine the links would be very similar. Alice -Original Message- From: Keith Gilbertson [mailto:keith.gilbert...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 7:53 AM To: Platt, Alice Cc: dspace-tech

[Dspace-tech] change title to author in workflow tasks?

2009-10-07 Thread Platt, Alice
During our testing of DSpace 1.5.1 XMLUI, we've noticed that in Submissions, under Tasks you own Tasks in the pool etc., the items are identified by Title. This is really a major problem for us; we can't expect our content specialist or professors to recognize a student's work in the pool by

[Dspace-tech] collection-specific license text

2009-09-29 Thread Platt, Alice
Using XMLUI, 1.5.1: I see that I can specify different license text when I create a new collection by entering it into the License field. However, I don't really want all that license text to display on the Collection page. I want the license to just be accessible from the item's License Text

[Dspace-tech] CSS code question

2009-09-28 Thread Platt, Alice
Hello, I am making simple changes to the style tier, using Firebug to identify CSS code that needs to be changed. This has basically been successful except for one little spot. When I am in the administrative area editing an Item, there are four tabs along the top of the body - Item Status,

[Dspace-tech] There are no files associated with this item - change that text?

2009-07-02 Thread Platt, Alice
Hello, We are planning to add a lot of item records without associated bitstreams, and it would be nice to change the text in the bitstream area of the item record from There are no files associated with this item. to something like, This resource is available in the Shapiro Library at

[Dspace-tech] separate paragraphs in text areas?

2009-06-09 Thread Platt, Alice
Hello, We are installing DSpace 1.5.1 with the XML (Manakin) interface. Last week at the DSpace workshop in Massachusetts, someone pointed out that when submitting an item, it is not possible to have multiple paragraphs in the textarea fields, such as the Abstract. This will definitely be an