[Dspace-tech] Batch delete e-people and e-groups

Good day DSpace Colleagues We would like to remove ''old'' data from our e-people and e-groups in DSpace. We use a DSpace instance as a temporary space where theses/dissertations are submitted (only students nominated to graduate can submit here): http://etd.sun.ac.za Since we are now

Re: [Dspace-tech] Diacritics and DSpace 4.0 and 3.1

We've experienced the same problem (although UTF8/Unicode was activated within DSpace), and decided to do away with diacritics completely (in titles and surnames). End-users so far have not complained. I suspect they seldom use diacritics when entering search terms. It would be interesting to

[Dspace-tech] Retrieving statistics from DSpace

Dear all We would very much like to demonstrate the impact of our repository, and would like to query the database for the following information (our repository is at http://scholar.sun.ac.za) - specifically the downloads per item according to: dc.type - Thesis dc.title dc.date.issued - for

[Dspace-tech] Item templates in DSpace 1.8.2

Hi there Is it possible to create an item template in DSpace 1.8.2 and apply it to all collections under a specific community? One of our communities contains 200 collections, and it is a major task to edit each collection independently and then create a template. It would be highly

Re: [Dspace-tech] How to let end-users submit to DSpace but hold the record and its attachment till it is fully checked by library staff

Dear Sherman When creating a collection, you have to create an electronic workflow for each collection. 1. Give the Submitters submission rights. They have to register first so that you can see them as an e-person when assigning rights. 2. Setup the workflow as follows: Submit

[Dspace-tech] DSpace statistics: Top country and Top city views

Good day all We experience trouble getting our Top country and Top city views display correctly. See for example http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/5194/statistics Does somebody maybe have a solution to this? Many thanks Ina Ina Smith

Re: [Dspace-tech] URL of Institutional repository

Dear Henry You need to setup the Google, html etc. sitemaps in DSpace. Also register your repository with the platforms, directories etc. listed at: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Ranking#Visibility Kind regards Ina Ina Smith E-Research Repository Manager (SUNScholar) |

[Dspace-tech] Call for Papers: ETD2011

*Apologies for cross-postings* ETD2011: Call for Papers, Presentations, Posters, Panels and Workshops ETD2011 - 14th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations 13-17 September 2011 Cape Town, South Africa http://dl.cs.uct.ac.za/conferences/etd2011 ==Overview==

[Dspace-tech] Create index error

Dear all We experience major difficulties re-indexing our content on DSpace 1.6.2 (http://scholar.sun.ac.za). When using the Basic Search and Advanced Search, nothing is retrieved. Any advise out there? We get the following after deleting indexes and then trying to create them again. The

[Dspace-tech] Digital Preservation Policies

Good day We are in the process of conducting a content analysis of existing digital preservation policies by other institutions in order to also start working towards a digital preservation policy for the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Would highly appreciate it if there are some

[Dspace-tech] Export/ Importa function in DSpace

Dear all I have a question re the Export function in DSpace. Export and Export (Migrate) does exactly the same, and there is no Import function which makes it very difficult to manage DSpace from a non-technical DSpace Administrator's side. Are you perhaps looking into it, or do I have it