Re: [Dspace-tech] How does the bitstream_format_id get set in a DSpace 1.5.1 import?

2010-05-06 Thread Richard, Joel M
Sue, If I remember correctly (others may have more detailed info), I had to set up the appropriate information in the Bitstream Format Registry (In the Administer section) for the files that we were importing. In our case, it was MP3 files and adding a new entry allowed the import to

[Dspace-tech] Documentation Corrections

2010-05-05 Thread Richard, Joel M
Unless I am completely mistaken, some docs need to be updated. The command (with no arguments): /dspace/bin/dspace Returns this: You must provide at least one command argument Usage: dspace [command-name] {parameters} [...] - stats-log-converter: Convert dspace.log files

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace Account Management

2010-03-12 Thread Richard, Joel M
Caryn, Have you seen the Request Copy add-on? It may have some of the functionality you are looking for, but the version that currently exists does -not- work with DSpace 1.5. In fact, it doesn't work with 1.4, either. The developers, from what I have learned, are no longer supporting it.

Re: [Dspace-tech] Sloooow submission process in DSpace 1.5.1

2010-02-12 Thread Richard, Joel M
I'll put my two cents in here... I haven't dug deep into ways of making these queries work better than they already do, but my experience tells me that there has to be a faster way of doing these operations. Sequence scans (i.e., Seq Scan on bi_2_dmap) are extremely costly on large tables and