Re: [Dspace-tech] Repec export

2015-06-15 Thread Stuart Yeates
We have a highly-customised version of the same script which I believe has this defect fixed. http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/local/RePEc/dspace2redif.pl This version of the script also does some quality control checking and squawks if the metadata doesn't meet the RePEc minimums (which

Re: [Dspace-tech] SFX links - suppress in collection?

2015-05-07 Thread Stuart Yeates
I would be tempted to see whether the link can be hidden in CSS. If possible this would be the minimally intrusive method. cheers stuart -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 https://www.facebook.com/VUWLibrary / https://www.facebook.com/TKMPC From:

Re: [Dspace-tech] Initial Community Screen really slow to load on 5.1

2015-04-13 Thread Stuart Yeates
Questions: (a) is it this particular page which is slow, or is it any first page in a user session (which just happens to usually be this page) ? (b) are subsequent reloads of the same page shortly after also slow ? Slowness is likely to be caused by the Java app (or the entire VM) being

Re: [Dspace-tech] Turning SSL on with self-signed certificate breaks solr functionality

2015-04-09 Thread Stuart Yeates
We do HTTPS by putting apache HTTPD in front of tomcat. Tomcat works in pure-HTTP (but is not accessible from the network) and HTTPD proxies tomcat on HTTP and HTTPS as necessary. cheers stuart -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 https://www.facebook.com/VUWLibrary /

Re: [Dspace-tech] NEWS: 7 reasons why frameworks are the new programming languages | CIO

2015-03-30 Thread Stuart Yeates
Are you suggesting a change of direction for DSpace? cheers stuart -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 From: Hilton Gibson hilton.gib...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, 31 March 2015 6:51 a.m. To: dspace-tech Subject: [Dspace-tech] NEWS: 7 reasons why

Re: [Dspace-tech] [dspace-tech]:RSS feeds

2015-03-23 Thread Stuart Yeates
You can do fancy RSS slicing and dicing using third party tools such as https://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ You probably want to start with the Atom variant of RSS. -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 From: Nada Abo-Eita naboeit...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [Dspace-tech] OAI server could not be reached in DSpace 5.2

2015-03-17 Thread Stuart Yeates
Is dspace running on a corporate or institutional network that has a firewall? Almost certainly the issue is that there is a firewall / proxy between dspace and the OAI server. cheers stuart -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 From: Ruben

Re: [Dspace-tech] Broken pipe

2015-03-12 Thread Stuart Yeates
I would start by checking any maximum file size options in tomcat and/or httpd that might be sitting in front of it. cheers stuart -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 From: Herbert Nguruwe nguru...@cput.ac.za Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015 6:56 p.m. To:

Re: [Dspace-tech] Thumbnails on browse in Mirage2

2015-01-11 Thread Stuart Yeates
As it says on the home page, that's Mirage 2. Mirage 2 will be release as part of the up-and-coming DSpace 5 release (see https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+5.0+Status ), which is expected shortly. So in short the answer is to wait a couple of weeks for DSpace 5, then

Re: [Dspace-tech] Submissions are stuck being reviewed

2014-12-17 Thread Stuart Yeates
Sounds like things are being cached incorrectly. What happens when you restart the server and try and access from a browser install that's never visited the site? cheers stuart -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 From: Erica Koestner

Re: [Dspace-tech] How to change the XMLUI

2014-12-14 Thread Stuart Yeates
If you're working on ubuntu / linux I recommend the 'locate' command which will find all files on a system of a given name. It's very useful for finding files. It's even more useful when you're editing the wrong file, to find other files of the same name and thus locate the file you're meant

Re: [Dspace-tech] Malformed stream error

2014-12-11 Thread Stuart Yeates
If you fill up the disk, you need to stop all of the tomcat stack and restart the operating system in such a way that it checks all disks when it restarts. You then need to rebuild your search indexes and check that in-process files haven't been damaged. cheers stuart -- I have a new

Re: [Dspace-tech] 404 on redirect - dspace 3.0, linux

2014-12-08 Thread Stuart Yeates
All 404s are logged. To find them (on linux) use a command like: grep ' 404 ' /var/log/httpd/access_log you may need to further restrict to to a specific IP address if you have a lot of accesses. cheers stuart -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692

Re: [Dspace-tech] Inconsistent text_lang on metadatavalue fields

2014-12-03 Thread Stuart Yeates
I can tell you right off that some fields have linguistic content. dc.language.iso, dc.type and dc.date should not have text_lang fields in normal use. If you're using date formats starting with the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven... they may do, but if you're

Re: [Dspace-tech] Urgent: database layer spontaneously closing connections(…)

2014-12-02 Thread Stuart Yeates
Although my postgresql is in standard configuration running autovacuum regularly, I did a manual vacuum full and a reindex database and reindex system for the dspace database yesterday. These jobs finished fast without problems. The snippet of the logfile above was recorded after this

Re: [Dspace-tech] Fwd: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: database layer spontaneously closing connections, crashes packager

2014-12-01 Thread Stuart Yeates
We're not seeing this issue, but if we were I'd be looking at increasing database timeouts and keepalives; reducing any possible database disk pauses and networking issues between the two. cheers stuart -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 From:

Re: [Dspace-tech] OAI harvest Date matching

2014-11-25 Thread Stuart Yeates
Bear in mind too, that it's often best to rely on things that dspace will guarantee are always be available, such as dc.date.available and dc.date.accessioned. cheers stuart -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 From: helix84 heli...@centrum.sk

Re: [Dspace-tech] Use case for exporting a DSpace collection to CD/DVD

2014-11-19 Thread Stuart Yeates
If I were doing this, I'd be looking to customise a LiveCD to hide the installation stuff and autostart the tomcat stack. One issue you're likely to have is that you don't know in advance how much RAM you'll have available, but the Live CD community may have a fix for that.

Re: [Dspace-tech] [SPAM] Re: Internal System Error

2014-11-19 Thread Stuart Yeates
That's almost certainly a permissions error. Create the directories manually and make sure that the user tomcat is running as (the user column in 'ps' or 'top') owns the directories and can read and execute all directories between the ones you create and / cheers stuart -- I have a new

Re: [Dspace-tech] Error running custom java scripts in 1.8.2

2014-11-05 Thread Stuart Yeates
The error message you are seeing is 100% consistent with dspace not being able to find the correct jars. There are two main options. 1 They haven't been compiled and copied over to the new build (look for them in the directories of the new build) 2 The change to add them to the CLASSPATH

Re: [Dspace-tech] Link Checker in Dspace

2014-10-30 Thread Stuart Yeates
That looks like your DNS host is redirecting unknown domains to a commercial sales site. If you change your DNS settings you may get a sane answer. cheers stuart -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 From: Edna Hagan eha...@idrc.ca Sent: Friday, 31

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace error ClientAbortException

2014-10-29 Thread Stuart Yeates
A monitoring system sending a HTTP request every ten seconds and closing the connection before any data is transferred will give you symptoms similar to this. cheers stuart -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 From: Hilton Gibson hilton.gib...@gmail.com

Re: [Dspace-tech] DS-2220: Always load Google Analytics over SSL

2014-10-28 Thread Stuart Yeates
I was shooting for always loading over HTTPS, as surely loading ANYTHING we can over HTTPS should increase our users' security, ie jQuery, images, CSS, etc... Yes, but only if you're assuming that only humans connect and all of them use modern browsers with good https support. Many users

Re: [Dspace-tech] DS-2220: Always load Google Analytics over SSL

2014-10-27 Thread Stuart Yeates
Isn't the fix for this to use protocol-independent URIs? i.e. the ones that start with // rather than https:// or http:// ? Or is there an important secondary issue I'm missing? cheers stuart -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 From: Alan Orth

Re: [Dspace-tech] OAI metadata formats

2014-10-27 Thread Stuart Yeates
I'd be very interested in whether anyone in knows of any real-world harvesters of OAI in anything except oai_dc ? cheers stuart -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 From: Scott Carlson scarl...@rice.edu Sent: Tuesday, 28 October 2014 9:53 a.m. To:

[Dspace-tech] dspace -fedora interop

2014-10-12 Thread Stuart Yeates
Does anyone know about the state of fedora interoperability? The particular task I'm looking at is a trial migration of some records from dspace to fedora. I'm aware of the script at https://gist.github.com/acoburn/4278122 but it hasn't shown much recent activity. Is there anything else I

Re: [Dspace-tech] Recommended TLS cipher suite for sites using HTTPS

2014-09-15 Thread Stuart Yeates
. To: Stuart Yeates; Ivan Masár Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Recommended TLS cipher suite for sites using HTTPS Stuart, Interesting that you consider Mozilla's guidlines too strict. Bettercrypto.org's are even more so. :) For reference, I use a stricter config than

Re: [Dspace-tech] Recommended TLS cipher suite for sites using HTTPS

2014-09-15 Thread Stuart Yeates
[mailto:hilton.gib...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2014 8:34 a.m. To: Stuart Yeates Cc: Alan Orth; Ivan Masár; dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Recommended TLS cipher suite for sites using HTTPS +1 to Stuart, my only intention with https is to secure user credentials

Re: [Dspace-tech] Recommended TLS cipher suite for sites using HTTPS

2014-09-15 Thread Stuart Yeates
I think you're missing the point. Protecting the content is as you say unimportant if it's open content. But the big threat here is to the privacy of the patrons. Your viewing history, if it gets into the wrong hands, could easily put you or someone you care about at risk. The big threat for

Re: [Dspace-tech] Recommended TLS cipher suite for sites using HTTPS

2014-09-14 Thread Stuart Yeates
I use a verifier to check my config: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=exams.victoria.ac.nz Note that my settings are less secure than I might like, because increasing them causes some platforms (especially mobile platforms) to fail to access the content, while leaving nothing

[Dspace-tech] testable properties of repositories that could be used to rate them

2014-09-11 Thread Stuart Yeates
A couple of us have drawn up a bit of a list of script-testable properties of repositories that could be used to rate them. We're tried to both avoid arbitrary judgements and the implication that every repository should meet every item:

Re: [Dspace-tech] Syncrhonization and central repository

2014-09-08 Thread Stuart Yeates
Hello Germán It might be more helpful if you told us the problem you're trying to solve. For example, we have HTTP and HTTPS views of our repository, which are simply done using apache proxying. Cheers stuart From: Germán Biozzoli [mailto:germanbiozz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 9

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] Regarding Ranking of Repositories

2014-09-02 Thread Stuart Yeates
I'm not sure that knee-jerk reaction to an arbitrary list of bad practice is a good place to start and seems like a really bad driver for software development. Maybe we should be talking to our fellow implementers and building on the work of http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html,

Re: [Dspace-tech] Google Scholar - not indexed correctly

2014-05-21 Thread Stuart Yeates
That could very well be useful for administrators. Cheers stuart -Original Message- From: Mark H. Wood [mailto:mw...@iupui.edu] Sent: Thursday, 22 May 2014 12:49 a.m. To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Google Scholar - not indexed correctly On Wed, May

Re: [Dspace-tech] Fwd: postgreSQL Backup: -o (preserve oids) needed?

2014-05-19 Thread Stuart Yeates
I can see that option being useful if you're debugging the database and you want the database restored as close to possible to the original, to make diff'ing query plans more useful. Cheers stuart -Original Message- From: Christian Völker [mailto:c.voel...@gmx.net] Sent: Tuesday, 20

Re: [Dspace-tech] using two google analytics accounts in DSpace

2014-04-30 Thread Stuart Yeates
We do something similar. We rolled it out a while ago, before the new the new Universal thing. If you look at the source of http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ there are two google code sections. The first is our hand-rolled cross-site google code: script language=javascript type=text/javascript

Re: [Dspace-tech] Java Heap Space Problems

2014-03-25 Thread Stuart Yeates
We restart our application stack (httpd, tomcat, postgres and handle server) immediately prior to the start of each business day (Mon-Fri). The timing is so that there are staff around to fix things if the restart doesn't work cleanly. We're on linux, so we're using cron for this. Cheers

Re: [Dspace-tech] news-xmlui.xml issue

2014-03-17 Thread Stuart Yeates
Usually the issue is that news-xmlui.xml is not well formed XML, or perhaps has the wrong namespace declaration. Check the first couple of lines in the file look the same as the original version and validate the file using xmllint or similar. Cheers stuart -Original Message- From:

Re: [Dspace-tech] CJK Support on DSpace 4.0

2014-01-26 Thread Stuart Yeates
If browsing to Latin characters works and browsing to CJK characters doesn't, it's almost certainly a case that either httpd, your connector or tomcat is confused about whether it should be using UTF-8. In particular check that you connector has the URIEncoding=UTF-8 attribute. Search the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Restoring Backed up Dspace files

2014-01-23 Thread Stuart Yeates
Do you also have a backup of the SQL database used to store the item metadata? Exactly what that looks like and where it's stored will depend on the database you use and how you've been backing it up. Cheers stuart From: Eric Martyns [mailto:martynse...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 24 January 2014

Re: [Dspace-tech] Spring vulnerabilities in DSpace 1.5.2?

2013-09-05 Thread stuart yeates
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[Dspace-tech] ODBC External Reporting

2013-09-05 Thread stuart yeates
data, workflow data, etc. Web access stats are stored in solr not the SQL database, for information on accessing that see https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Solr#Solr-AccessingSolr A big thanks to LCONZ http://www.lconz.ac.nz/ for funding this meeting and work. cheers stuart -- Stuart

[Dspace-tech] whitespace bug with global change (commandline)

2012-12-04 Thread stuart yeates
normalisation or this is a bug in the SQL whitespace handling (which google suggests is a challenging topic). I'm using DSpace 1.8.2 / postgres. Anyone else seeing this? Am I doing something silly? cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library

Re: [Dspace-tech] dspace feed into SSRN?

2012-10-15 Thread stuart yeates
On 11/10/12 20:13, helix84 wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz wrote: We have a pair of feeds from http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ into RePEc ( http://ideas.repec.org/s/vuw/vuwecf.html and http://ideas.repec.org/s/vuw/vuwcpf.html ). I have been

[Dspace-tech] dspace feed into SSRN?

2012-10-10 Thread Stuart Yeates
We have a pair of feeds from http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ into RePEc ( http://ideas.repec.org/s/vuw/vuwecf.html and http://ideas.repec.org/s/vuw/vuwcpf.html ). I have been wondering whether it's possible to get similar feeds set up for SSRN http://www.ssrn.com/ Has anyone tried this

Re: [Dspace-tech] Two Instances dspace 1.6.2

2011-02-17 Thread stuart yeates
* *type* Status report *message* _/dspace2/xmlui_ *description* _The requested resource (/dspace2/xmlui) is not available._ *Apache Tomcat/5.5* Thanks Sisay -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services

[Dspace-tech] SWORD URL issue

2011-02-14 Thread stuart yeates
see, SWORDUrlManager.getDSpaceObject() should be using URL-parsing methods to extract and operate on only the file part of the URL. At the very least URL canonicalisation needs to happen here. Or have I misunderstood something? cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services

Re: [Dspace-tech] Encrypted Assetstores

2011-02-09 Thread stuart yeates
for the entire directory. Depending on your platform this might be eCryptfs (linux), BitLocker (Microsoft) or FileVault (MacOS). cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library

Re: [Dspace-tech] allowCDATA

2011-02-08 Thread stuart yeates
have your CDATA in a separate javascript file and include it in head. The alternative is to XML-encode the javascript. this involves replacing: with amp; with lt; with gt; cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library

Re: [Dspace-tech] Error SWORD, servicedocument

2011-02-06 Thread stuart yeates
if it works through this other option. -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/ -- The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services

Re: [Dspace-tech] $PATH in Unix for DSpace

2011-02-06 Thread stuart yeates
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Re: [Dspace-tech] LDAP Authentication

2011-02-03 Thread stuart yeates
-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/ -- The modern datacenter depends on network

Re: [Dspace-tech] More re Porter Stem Filter

2011-02-02 Thread stuart yeates
. Vitamin A is the obvious example, but there are many other occurrences of 'A' as an important, non-trivial term in a name. A simple question, but there are complexities here you appear not to have thought of. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz

Re: [Dspace-tech] re Porter Stem Filter

2011-02-02 Thread stuart yeates
://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library

[Dspace-tech] Bitstream / bundle permissions

2011-02-01 Thread stuart yeates
? We're running 1.6.2. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/ -- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log

Re: [Dspace-tech] two Instances of dspace

2011-01-31 Thread stuart yeates
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Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace and shibboleth authentication problem

2011-01-31 Thread stuart yeates
. yours Tapani Lehtilä -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/ -- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution

Re: [Dspace-tech] Urgent: question about search behavior

2011-01-31 Thread stuart yeates
a link to your repository, so I can't check, but almost certainly the culprit is stemming. See: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Stemming cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library

[Dspace-tech] stop lists for Māori language for us e in search

2010-03-04 Thread stuart yeates
18833 kia 21203 atu 22526 he 22921 ana 25268 whenua 26545 me 28052 ka 32916 ko 44994 a 52515 nga 60488 e 69607 ki 92490 o 128901 i 208905 te -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz

[Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.6 upgrade advice

2010-03-03 Thread stuart yeates
) cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software

[Dspace-tech] Embargo in 1.6

2009-12-07 Thread stuart yeates
to those involving Java :) cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository -- Return on Information: Google

Re: [Dspace-tech] scientific formulas do not appear as they are when uploaded

2009-08-17 Thread stuart yeates
that also affects some more obscure natural languages / scripts (we run into it with Linear B). See: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1689 cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional

[Dspace-tech] script to validate all PDFs ?

2009-02-24 Thread stuart yeates
and valid PDF. Going from a file on the disk to a database record I'm not too sure of. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-10 Thread stuart yeates
and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/ New

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace Metadata

2008-10-28 Thread stuart yeates
, when we submit a document. That will largely depend on whether you're using the .jsp or the XML/UI/Manakin interface, since they do this differently. The version of dspace you're using is also relevant. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Te Pātaka Kōrero o Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika

Re: [Dspace-tech] filter-media problem - question on size limit

2008-10-27 Thread stuart yeates
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Re: [Dspace-tech] two handles???

2008-10-23 Thread stuart yeates
the browser). If they all go to the same browser, that's your default, if they don't, consult someone who understands application settings on your platform. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Te Pātaka Kōrero o Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika a Māui http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand

Re: [Dspace-tech] current status of UTF-8 in dspace and XML-UI / Manakin

2008-10-09 Thread stuart yeates
in case other's are having these problems.] cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Te Pātaka Kōrero o Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika a Māui http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository