Re: [Dspace-tech] Modifying values exposed via OAI unqualified DC

2009-01-21 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Mark, Claudia, Thanks for the pointer, but can you tell me where this file should be? I've done a find on my server and it's not coming up. Mark DSpace 1.5.x: [dspace-src]/dspace-oai/dspace-oai-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/oai/OAID CCrosswalk.java DSpace 1.4.x and earlier:

Re: [Dspace-tech] HANDLE update issue

2008-12-15 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Tom, Would you mind trying an experiment for us? If you remove the semicolon from [dsapce-src]/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/handle/UpdateHandlePref ix.java run mvn package, and ant update, does the script [dspace]/bin/update-hanmdle-prefix then run OK? I suspect it will fix the

Re: [Dspace-tech] LDAP Authentication failure

2008-08-19 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi, We are using DSpace 1.4.2; We are facing this problem on a RHEL box. 2008-08-12 15:33:33,847 INFO org.dspace.eperson*.*PasswordAuthentication @ anonymous:session_id=86F90023214655DE8C1AA34B81B2B2B5:ip_addr=10.10.3.205:auth enticate:attempting password auth of [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.4.2 and LDAP

2008-05-22 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Darryl, I have been trying for some time to wrap my head around how to get LDAP to work with DSpace 1.4.2. I find it strange because unlike everything else related to DSpace, LDAP is not extensively documented and I've seen so many different forums with varying views, problems and

Re: [Dspace-tech] Tangent: *configuring* user statistics

2008-04-29 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Mark, While we're talking about the bin/stat-* scripts: they really shouldn't be configured in the scripts themselves; the file paths at least should be placed in config/dspace.cfg so they don't get blown away by code updates. Shall I cook up a patch, or is someone else already working

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace Remote APIs

2008-02-28 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Robin, The SWORD project team are hoping to extend SWORD to cover the full CRUD functionality. APP, upon which SWORD is based, supports this (http://bitworking.org/projects/atom/draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-09.html #edit). The SWORD project has now won further funding, and we will soon start

Re: [Dspace-tech] Illegal argument exception

2008-01-23 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Jose, In the last few days I've been getting errors like this: -- URL Was: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/dspace/handle/2027.42/31692 -- Method: GET -- Parameters were: Exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 2 Dec 2007 03:08:59 GMT at

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 - mvn package trouble

2008-01-14 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Chad I upgraded to Java 1.5 and am getting the exact same results as before. Is there any more information I can find and provide in order to help track down the cause? Could you run 'javac -version' just to confirm your system is picking up the new 1.5, rather than the old 1.4 JDK? I'm

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 - mvn package trouble

2008-01-12 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Chad, I have been trying to build a DSpace 1.5 alpha from the svn repository by following the steps at http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Building_DSpace_From_Source However, I have been unsuccessful. On the step that says to type mvn package I get the build failure message below. I have

Re: [Dspace-tech] Browse by Author and UTF-8

2008-01-11 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Robin, This is the exact fix as per the installation instructions: http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=152 === You also need to alter Tomcat's default configuration to support searching and browsing of multi-byte UTF-8 correctly. You need to add a configuration

Re: [Dspace-tech] Watermarking images on-the-fly

2008-01-11 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Shane, Have there been any projects investigating the potential for watermarking images stored in the repository as they are accessed by the user? Here is a quick guide to using PHP and the GD Graphics Library to accomplish this, but not within the DSpace environment:

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace installation on Windows server 2003

2008-01-09 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Paul, Has anyone done the Dspace installation on a Windows 2003 server, I did the steps as in the documentation everything goes fine until I ran the Ant Full Install, start installing stuff and as the war files is being installed the installation stops with this error initialize Database@

Re: [Dspace-tech] Eprints to Dspace migration

2007-12-20 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Pavan, Has anybody tried with Eprints to Dspace migration. If Please can u send me the steps you followed to migrate . Currently i followed steps given in this site(http://rubric.edu.au/techreports/tech_report-eprints_to_dspace.htm). But i wasn't able to successfully import , i got some

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace Documentations

2007-12-14 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi, Iam newbie to Dspace and would like to try to install and configure for our Library.I have intermediate level of java programming.Please,can anyone help me to point out tutorials and documentation for the beginners?. A lot of the documentation is distributed with DSpace in the /docs

Re: [Dspace-tech] handle resolution

2007-12-13 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Kyle, Our dspace and handle server (kb.osu.edu) has been migrated to new hardware. It retains the same IP address and DNS name. Unfortunately after the IP switch our handle (1811) still resolves to the original machine. We have already changed the configuration settings in the main dspace

Re: [Dspace-tech] Development goals (was: ETDs Dspace - BestPractices)

2007-11-13 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
On 13/11/07 23:52, Christian Voelker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I appreciate your comment written with the deep knowledge of a long term user but I have a hard time to google all the external references to technologies such as Tapir, Researcher Pages, Sword an everything else you mention. I

Re: [Dspace-tech] MS - IIS webserver

2007-11-07 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi John, Hello, I¹ve been looking for some information regarding the use of MS-IIS web server with Dspace but without much luck I¹m afraid. We are looking at the possibility of using Dspace and our IT department would like to know if we can use MS­IIS. If you are using it, would it be

Re: [Dspace-tech] Blocking a malicious user

2007-11-01 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Sue, pg_hba.conf only controls who can communicate with Postgres, not who can communicate with DSpace. Normally it is only 'applications' (e.g. DSpace) that talk to Postgres, not users. A user talks to DSpace, who in turn talks to Postgres. Postgres has no idea or interest in the IP address

Re: [Dspace-tech] LDAP administrator authentication

2007-10-25 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Pete, I am using dspace 1.4.2 and I want to connect it with ldap server. The problem is that my ldap server needs userDN password to make the connection. On the other hand, DSpace tries to authenticate users anonymously. I checked Dspace.org documentation but it has only an anonymous

Re: [Dspace-tech] Completed install but page cannot be displayed

2007-10-15 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Peter, Something to try to see if tomcat really is running: What happens when you type: telnet localhost 8080 If you get a message something like 'connection refused' then it sounds like tomcat either isn't running, or is not listening on port 8080. Have you looked at 'ps' to see if it is

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] dspace email feature not working

2007-10-11 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi, I am using ubuntu 6.06 as operating system, the e mail feature is not working in my server the error in the log file is 2007-10-11 11:55:11,915 INFO org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.RegisterServlet @ anonymous:session_id=7CBDA8042C27736FF48362A1D1056E8E:ip_addr=

Re: [Dspace-tech] problem with itemimport in .bat file

2007-09-18 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Wang, In Windows batch scripts you need to prepend calls to other batch scripts (dsrun is actually dsrun.bat) with 'call'. So each line would read: call dsrun org.dspace.app.itemimport.ItemImport -a -e etc... I hope that helps, Stuart

Re: [Dspace-tech] UTF-8 encoding in search mystery

2007-08-23 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Steve, Can anyone help with this? I¹ve found that, since we moved from Solaris to Linux (RHEL), we are unable to search using words with non-ascii characters in them. E. g. the name ³Mühlhäusler² in simple search returns no results. The URL produced by the search is

Re: [Dspace-tech] Handle Configuration in DSPace 1.4.1/Windows 2003

2007-08-07 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Jayan, (1) In my repository all items except the single uploaded item (10220/62562) are having the default handler (123456789). How to run the update-handle-prefix script on Windows? Will this affect the handler service? You might find it easier to first apply this patch:

Re: [Dspace-tech] Handle Configuration in DSPace 1.4.1/Windows 2003

2007-08-07 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Jayan, For starting the handle server at the command prompt E:\DSpace\bindsrun -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j-handle-plugin.properties net.han dle.server.Main E:\dspace\handle-server In this case I need to leave the command line window open for the handle server to function. If I close

Re: [Dspace-tech] Search result numbers

2007-08-07 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Jayan, In the dspace repository after a search for a keyword, the log file (given below) returns ³results=(0,0,3)². ³3² indicates the no of matches for the keyword. Please suggest regarding the other two digits (0,0,3) in the result. 2007-08-08 11:57:30,506 INFO

Re: [Dspace-tech] Problem with new submission

2007-07-31 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Daniel, When trying to make a new submission, after the first four steps (Describe, Describe, Describe, Upload) the Verify page shows almost all data as null values. Does somebody know how this can be possible or how can I solve it? Is this happening on a fresh install of the software, or

Re: [Dspace-tech] i18n configurable multilingualism support

2007-07-25 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Marcelo, Has anyone tried this patch: SF Patch #1450491 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1450491group_id=19 984atid=319984 i18n configurable multilingualism support For what I've read, it seems to be an excellent addition to Dspace!! It is indeed! It has

Re: [Dspace-tech] 1.4.2 installation problem

2007-07-11 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Glen, After doing the preliminaries when I do ant fresh_install in the dspace source directory I get the following error message: No supported regular expression matcher found This usually means you have to install an extra package for ant which contains the regular expression

Re: [Dspace-tech] input-forms.xml : including a url in the submissionsform

2007-07-11 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi, Has anyone succeeded in including a live link in the submissions form? I can get the url to display as text, but it will not work as a link. I know of one other person who has tried this and has had difficulty. Do you mean in the 'hint' section? If so, you can do it by using html

Re: [Dspace-tech] New users not seeing items in task pool

2007-06-07 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Donna, If a new e-person is created after items have been submitted to the workflow, then the items don't display in their list of Tasks in the Pool. The older workflow items only display if they are accepted by another e-person and returned to the task pool. Does anybody know how to

Re: [Dspace-tech] Validation and accents

2007-06-07 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Luis, I have two problems. - I have a function to validate. I would like to know where do i have to put this function in the DSpace code. Just for filtering the registrion for new users to people that does not belong to the university. boolean Función_Validar(String Usuario, String

Re: [Dspace-tech] Fwd: Problem with Data Provider Validation

2007-06-06 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Jodi / Keith, However this request returns error code=badArgument. http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListIdentifiers The 'badArgument' occurs because you need to specify which format you want the metadata in. So the following works:

Re: [Dspace-tech] dsrun data register trouble

2007-06-06 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Horii, We have a memory problem and we can not register our repository data properly. If somebody knows anything about the similar problem, please let us know. The problem is as follows. During the data registration using dsrun utility, the memory resource is constantly consumed and

Re: [Dspace-tech] Accented char in filename problem

2007-06-06 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Mike, On 1/6/07 14:04, Michael White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It has just been brought to my attention that an item in our repository that contains an accented character in the filename is not accessible in our repository because the char/url is being mangled when the link to the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Fwd: Problem with Data Provider Validation

2007-06-06 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
= ? ORDER BY h andle.resource_id 2007-06-06 14:47:49,782 INFO org.dspace.app.oai.DSpaceOAICatalog @ anonymous:no _context:oai_error:no_items_match On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Stuart Lewis [sdl] wrote: Hi Jodi / Keith, However this request returns error code=badArgument. http://dspace.udel.edu

Re: [Dspace-tech] Servlet exception when sending mail

2007-06-06 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Jason, It sounds like tomcat might be suffering from a clash of jar files proving email handling, and is using the GNU mail.jar rather than the one provided with DSpace. Might be worth looking around and seeing if there is another one sitting around which might be being used instead. Thanks,

Re: [Dspace-tech] Problem with Data Provider Validation

2007-05-29 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Keith, Can we see the repository, to see what errors it gives us? Thanks, Stuart _ Datblygydd Cymwysiadau'r WeWeb Applications Developer Gwasanaethau Gwybodaeth Information Services Prifysgol

Re: [Dspace-tech] Problem with Data Provider Validation

2007-05-29 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Keith, Thanks for the help. Currently my initial problem originated because I did not specify the correct base url. Since correcting that problem the repository is not pass the ListIdentifiers test. The base url is: http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace-oai/request Weird!

Re: [Dspace-tech] Out of Memory error

2007-05-16 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
On 16/5/07 19:56, Jeffrey Trimble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got this error all of a sudden: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError What caused this? What were you doing when the error occurred? Was it from Tomcat and the web application, or (more likely) from a command line tool? Thanks,

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] How enable full-text searching.(Newbie)

2007-04-25 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Anny, Does it mean i have to run bin/filter-media manually every time when I add a pdf file? People tend to run this periodically, for example once a night. This can be enabled via a cron job or scheduled task (unix or windows). See:

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] How enable full-textsearching.(Newbie)

2007-04-25 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Anny, Why not execute the mediafilter (such as creating index for the pdf file, creating thumbnail and so on) immediately once add a new item?I feel it will be better. This would have to happen in a separate thread to the main web response so as to not delay the web interface if a large

Re: [Dspace-tech] ldap dspace

2007-04-18 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Susan, I started receiving the following messages in my dspace log today: 2007-04-17 15:29:25,244 WARN org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.LDAPServlet @ anonymous:session_id=7EFF45148568493C0EB81D2E82FDCF62:ip_addr=128.172.144.44:l dap_authentication:type=failed_auth

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace Statistics general report

2007-04-13 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Gary, So can you tell me how the ³Most recent general report² is generated? Are the numbers compiled from the dspace-log-general-%DATE%.dat files or the dspace-log-monthly-%DATE%.dat files? (Or some other way?) I take it the ³stat-report-general² generates this report? Running

Re: [Dspace-tech] customize the interface?

2007-04-13 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Pan, I'd like to customize DSpace by replacing the texts DSpace TM About DSpace Software on the upper left and DSpace Software Copyright ... down below by the texts describing my institution and my project. Could someone please show me where in the html/java code under which directories

Re: [Dspace-tech] Migration (1.3x to 1.4x) questions

2007-04-13 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Russell, First of all, should we go from our current install (1.3.2, I think) to 1.4 or 1.4.1? You would be best off going for 1.4.1 as this contains a lot of bug fixes to 1.4 You do not need to go 1.3.2 - 1.4 - 1.4.1, you can go straight to 1.4.1 Next, how much time should I allow for

Re: [Dspace-tech] dc.contributor.advisor and dc.contributor.author looks like all of them are authors

2007-04-12 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Tonny. You should be able to change this by editing [dspace]/config/dspace.cfg and restarting tomcat Look for the following section: # Customise the DC metadata fields to show in the default simple item view. # # The form is schema prefix.element[.qualifier|.*][(date)|(link)], ... # # For

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace OAI-PMH

2007-04-12 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Jayan, Any instructions are there on the web for using DSpace OAI-PMH. Please suggest how to set it up? Normally there is no setting up required. All you have to do is to make sure that you copy dspace-oai.war to your [tomcat]/webapps/ directory as well as dspace.war To test it, try:

Re: [Dspace-tech] 2 Tier Dspace Implementation

2007-03-26 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Kurian Sent: 26 March 2007 10:00 To: Stuart Lewis [sdl] Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Dspace-tech] 2 Tier Dspace Implementation Hi! Stuart, (1) Postgresql 8.2.1-1 was installed on the DB server, dspace.student.main.ntu.edu.sg. (2) JDK 1.6.0 and Tomact 6.0

Re: [Dspace-tech] styles.css.jsp

2007-03-19 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Susan, You should be able to edit styles.css.jsp 'live'. You can edit it in: [tomcat]/dspace/styles.css.jsp JSPs usually automatically compile whenever they are changed, you don't need to worry about editing them in [dspace-src] and then recompiling and redeploying DSpace. The only caveat

Re: [Dspace-tech] styles.css.jsp

2007-03-19 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Information Services Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth University of Wales Aberystwyth E-bost / E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffon / Tel: (01970) 622860 _ On 19/3/07 21:18, Stuart Lewis [sdl

Re: [Dspace-tech] OAI-PMH and Oracle

2007-03-14 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
_ -Original Message- From: Rafa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 March 2007 13:08 To: Stuart Lewis [sdl] Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] OAI-PMH and Oracle Hi, Unfortunately, it doesn´t work for me. Seems that it has no effect since I get the same ORA-01858

Re: [Dspace-tech] Fwd: how to restore database?

2007-03-14 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Rudra, The restore procedure will depend on which method you used to backup the data. How did you back it up? Postgres documentation about this can be found at: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/backup.html (8.1) http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/backup.html (8.0)

Re: [Dspace-tech] OAI-PMH and Oracle

2007-03-12 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of DSpace-tech digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OAI-PMH and Oracle (Stuart Lewis [sdl

Re: [Dspace-tech] OAI-PMH and Oracle

2007-03-10 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Rafa, Which version of DSpace do you use? The reason I ask is that the code which generates the relevant SQL query for your OAI-PMH request changed dramatically between 1.3.* and 1.4, and I don't know what tests were run on the 1.4 version (there was a small bug which slipped through with the

Re: [Dspace-tech] How to upgrade databse?

2007-02-26 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Rudra, First you need to move your old database data onto your new server. See the following webpage for how to do this: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/backup.html The you need to upgrade the database from 1.3.2 to 1.4. Instructions for how to do this can be found in

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace and Oracle Application Server 10g

2007-02-16 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi José, You should be able to do this quite easily by adding the following to: [dspace-src]/etc/dspace-web.xml Add these into the relevant sections: context-param param-nameproperties/param-name param-value@@dspace.dir@@/config/oaicat.properties/param-value description The

Re: [Dspace-tech] Statistics from 1.3.2 and migrating to 1.4x

2007-02-09 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Jeffrey, 1.4 suffers from this problem, but it was fixed in 1.4.1. So as long as you upgrade to 1.4.1 you should be fine. No logs were ever lost, it was just a problem of parsing the log files because the format changed slightly between 1.3.2 and 1.4. Thanks, Stuart

Re: [Dspace-tech] LDAP for DSpace 1.4.1

2007-02-09 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Jayan, To get LDAP to work, not only do you have to set 'ldap.enable' to true, you also have to configure the authentication plugins. In your dspace.cfg you will find a line like: plugin.sequence.org.dspace.eperson.AuthenticationMethod = \ org.dspace.eperson.PasswordAuthentication

Re: [Dspace-tech] dspace-oai not returnning records

2007-02-09 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jose Blanco Sent: 09 February 2007 14:39 To: Stuart Lewis [sdl]; dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] dspace-oai not returnning records Yea, I checked this file and don't see anything different from it was running

Re: [Dspace-tech] New logging system (Google Analytics)

2007-02-07 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Robert Tansley wrote: (Shameless plug) you could do worse than Google Analytics Stuart Lewis has used this, so maybe he can speak to how well this works. If you are interested, there is a short presentation given at a recent UK Ireland DSpace user group meeting available at:

Re: [Dspace-tech] Registration with DSpace

2007-01-16 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
Hi Inna, See the following line dspace.cfg: # Specify the number of the store to use for new bitstreams with this property # The default is 0 (zero) which corresponds to the 'assetstore.dir' above # assetstore.incoming = 1 Change this to: assetstore.incoming = 2 Hope this helps, Stuart