Re: [Dspace-tech] Can the workflow step I Grant the License be bypassed in DSpace 1.4.2???

2008-09-18 Thread Graham Triggs
Yes... and no. There is no way of changing this behaviour without altering the DSpace code (which you have access to). To be strictly accurate, you would still have to write code to accomplish this with 1.5 - the key difference is that you aren't forced to alter the code that is shipped as

Re: [Dspace-tech] 2 questions about large files

2008-09-23 Thread Graham Triggs
Larry Stone wrote: The LNI *might* be able to do this for you. It streams directly from the incoming PUT body through a Zip decoder into a Bitstream, so theoretically there is no artificial length limit. However, the _implementation_ of any of those layers of software might not be able to

Re: [Dspace-tech] Configuring the Browse List (JSPUI)

2008-09-24 Thread Graham Triggs
Vezina Marie-Helene wrote: Thank you Graham, Very clear answer. I guess the final goal I was pursuing while playing around with the browse configuration was to be able, for my Browse lists, to have one Date column that would display dc.date.submitted for ETDs and dc.date.issued for

Re: [Dspace-tech] Getting other fields in browse

2008-09-25 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi, Take a look at the dspace.cfg file. There is an entry webui.itemlist.columns that you can use to specify which metadata fields you want displayed in the list. Note that you will also need entries in your messages.properties file(s) for the column headings - they start 'itemlist.'

Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: Java heap space error when trying to update aCollection

2008-09-29 Thread Graham Triggs
Sue, I'm not denying that there is an efficiency problem / bug in DSpace to be bombing out on a minor Collection change just because of the number of Items. But 256 / 512Mb really is virtually nothing these days. I can easily exceed that editing the DSpace source in an IDE. I'll regularly see

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace and Open JDK

2008-09-30 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi, I don't believe that anyone has tried this, however I don't see any reason why this shouldn't work. G mahesh mahesh wrote: Hi, I am new to this . Can i compile dspace with open jdk package ? Thanks Mahesh

Re: [Dspace-tech] Question regarding handle.jar

2008-10-01 Thread Graham Triggs
Mark Diggory wrote: I will ask why are you trying to alter the existing handle.jar? The current one we publish into the maven repository (which your build has downloaded) should be adequate for DSpace 1.5.1 and the current Handle service. Are you encountering problems running the handle

Re: [Dspace-tech] Range query

2008-10-04 Thread Graham Triggs
Yes, in theory (at least for 1.5+ - haven't checked earlier) For example, a query like author:[aa TO ab] Will find all items with authors that start with 'aa' (it will also find any authors that exactly match 'ab', but not 'aba', etc.) G Jochen Lienhard wrote: Hi, does DSpace support

Re: [Dspace-tech] plugins and custom classes in 1.5.x

2008-10-04 Thread Graham Triggs
I'll concur with Mark's comments about the use of Maven modules. A small note about Java package spaces though - org.dspace.authenticate is the correct place for it to be if you are intending to submit it as a patch. If it's just a local customisation, it's better to use a package appropriate

Re: [Dspace-tech] Problem with filter-media

2008-10-09 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi Susan, These are long known issues with PDF text extraction. And they are both due to bugs in the underlying libraries that are used, and not necessarily an issue with the PDF content or size. For the heap space issue, a new configuration option was added to DSpace 1.5 - if you add to

Re: [Dspace-tech] Index-init

2008-10-13 Thread Graham Triggs
You can run index-init with the website up, but bear in mind: 1) There may be a few exceptions thrown whilst the tables are being created (prior to population) 2) The browse lists won't be fully populated until the index-init script has finished running (may take some time on a large

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSPACE browse error

2008-10-17 Thread Graham Triggs
If you are getting a document not found error, then your URLs are wrong. Are you still using links to /[dspace]/browse-title, /[dspace]/browse-author, etc? The new urls are /[dspace]/browse?type=title, Charl Roberts wrote: Hi, We’ve recently upgraded to 1.5. All seems to work

Re: [Dspace-tech] Handle Server died

2008-10-20 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi George, So, you opted to use encryption in the simple setup? Looks like the encrypted file that was generated is/has become corrupt. But this is all entirely with the CNRI provided code (and the JVM). I would contact CNRI for support. G George Kozak wrote: Hi... Two weeks ago I moved

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSPACE browse error

2008-10-21 Thread Graham Triggs
? Did a miss a step on the re-indexing during the upgrade, as the JSPs are still following an older link path? Thanks again, Charl Roberts Manager - Library Systems Digital Initiatives University of the Witwatersrand +27 11 717 1950 -Original Message- From: Graham Triggs

Re: [Dspace-tech] Sub-community policies

2008-10-21 Thread Graham Triggs
Richard M. Davis wrote: We have a Sub-Community (called HOUP) and we want access to the bit-streams restricted to one Group of users (apart from Administrator). (It's not important whether or not the abstract/metadata view gets restricted too.) So I've done what you'd expect: removed the

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

2008-10-23 Thread Graham Triggs
Tim Donohue wrote: (2) If you look closely at the PDFBox site, you'll notice that software has *not* had an updated release since Oct 2006. And if you keep looking at that site, you aren't likely to see much activity in the future. You should try looking here:

Re: [Dspace-tech] Problem Searching

2008-11-04 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi, Are there any errors reported in your dspace.log? The DSIndexer class has some static initialisation code (that reads from dspace.cfg). If you have any errors in your configuration, then the class won't initialise, giving you this exception. G Zaya Kh wrote: Hi all expert, I installed

Re: [Dspace-tech] Importing problem -- items not going into collection

2008-11-17 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi, The browse configuration in your dspace.cfg does not match the tables that have been created in the database. You need to run index-init first - then subsequent index-updates will be successful. If you change the browse configuration again, you'll have to run index-init. G Thomas A

Re: [Dspace-tech] SVN 1_5_X branch fails to compile

2008-12-08 Thread Graham Triggs
The latest revision in SVN looks fine to me: http://dspace.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dspace/branches/dspace-1_5_x/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/statistics/StatisticsLoader.java?revision=3321view=markup Looks like you have a merge with your own local changes. G On 08/12/2008 09:00,

Re: [Dspace-tech] Does anyone use SWORD with DSpace yet?

2009-01-22 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi, Yes, we offer the SWORD interface on all Open Repository hosted repositories - and we have clients that are working with it to develop systems to populate the their repositories with content. Which brings us to an interesting limitation of the reference implementation, that I would like

Re: [Dspace-tech] download citation in EndNote format

2009-03-05 Thread Graham Triggs
Morning, Yes, I do know more about it ;) It was developed just prior to the 1.5 release, and I had been targetting getting it into that release. However, we were entering a phase of stabilising the code at that time, and there was one significant problem with it... The detail of metadata

Re: [Dspace-tech] Java Heap dumps during Filter-Media

2009-04-09 Thread Graham Triggs
Nice work Larry, I've replaced our PDF text extraction and thumbnail generation with this code. Thankfully, running on Debian, adding the third party tools was as hard as apt-get install xpdf ;) I actually ran into a few more difficulties with the ImageIO libraries - it's a pity that you

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] TAMU OAI Harvester

2009-04-30 Thread Graham Triggs
From: Mark H. Wood [mailto:mw...@iupui.edu] 3) How can addons interject into the administrative interface? Well, in DSpace 2.0 we'll have Spring underneath it all (as I understand it), and may be able to do dependency-injection tricks to cram new administrative UI into the existing

Re: [Dspace-tech] AJP Errors

2009-06-12 Thread Graham Triggs
Looks like a known (now fixed) bug in Cocoon 2.2 http://www.mail-archive.com/d...@cocoon.apache.org/msg57582.html G From: Sean Carte [mailto:sean.ca...@gmail.com] Sent: Fri 12/06/2009 07:01 To: Van Ly Cc: dspace-tech Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] AJP Errors

Re: [Dspace-tech] Creative Commons problem

2009-07-24 Thread Graham Triggs
FYI, the problem that I reported to Creative Commons has been fixed. G -Original Message- From: Graham Triggs [mailto:gra...@biomedcentral.com] Sent: 23 July 2009 10:38 To: Robin Taylor; Tech General Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Creative Commons problem Hmmm... Not sure about that one

Re: [Dspace-tech] Google Analytics and DSpace 1.5.2 part 2

2009-09-23 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi, It won't be the upgrade to 1.5.2. Google Analytics tracking works via Javascript in the browser - so as long as the code appears correctly in the HTML, and can be executed, then it will track. And in this case, the code does appear correctly. But it isn't being executed. Hacking a saved

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace secure passwords

2009-10-16 Thread Graham Triggs
/transport-guarantee /user-data-constraint /security-constraint If this doesn't work, the next best option would be to write a servlet filter that checks for secure transport, and redirects if it isn't - then map it to the login pages in the web.xml. Graham Triggs Technical Architect Open

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] JSPUI language detection - request for comment

2010-01-28 Thread Graham Triggs
BTW, 1 + 2 are technically the same thing... the EPerson's default locale is stored in the current session when they log in - overriding what is currently there. The UI selection will update the Locale in the current session - overriding whatever is there currently (either a previous choice,

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

2010-02-04 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi Sue, (You don't say explicitly, so I'll assume that you are using Postgres) I can't explain why the addition of metadata rows is taking so long - there are a number of factors that could come into play... server getting many / expensive requests, resource contention, postgres needs

Re: [Dspace-tech] Bad robot! Googlebot and Internal Server Errors

2010-02-11 Thread Graham Triggs
On 11 February 2010 14:37, Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk wrote: You should add /dspace to the start of those disallowed patterns, because your DSpace URLs start with /dspace after the hostname. You should also ensure that the robots.txt is available at the root of the server... ie.

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

2010-02-12 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi Joel, On 12 February 2010 17:04, Richard, Joel M richar...@si.edu wrote: 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.

Re: [Dspace-tech] Problem with authorization created during Submission process in DSpace 1.5.1

2010-03-11 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi Sue, Don't worry, the READ policy on the COLLECTION has no effect on the access of the items. In fact, it doesn't really have any effect on the access of the Collection home page/browse itself, either :( For accessing items, what you need to be concerned with is the DEFAULT_ITEM_READ and

Re: [Dspace-tech] Handle Server Problems

2010-03-11 Thread Graham Triggs
Sounds like you need to remove the lock file from the txns directory. Regards, G On 11 March 2010 22:32, Cameron, Jacob jacob.came...@uleth.ca wrote: Our handle server has stopped responding. I’ve killed and restarted the process several times and had it working again this morning. But

Re: [Dspace-tech] log4j causing slowness for DSpace

2010-04-07 Thread Graham Triggs
Jason, It's highly unlikely that Log4J is causing the startup to be slow. Whilst your startup takes in the region of 10 minutes, there is no indication in the log as to when each of those log4j warnings appeared, or what was occurring at the time. The regular re-occurrence of

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.6 Run With Tomcat Security Manager Enabled, Anybody?

2010-04-07 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi Christian, It's good to see someone else working on this. I did look at it myself at one stage, in a mad ambition to be all 'correct' about it. And after chasing down the rabbit hole for hours creating a seemingly never-ending list of permissions, I came to the conclusion that as I've got a

Re: [Dspace-tech] Improper Install?

2010-04-11 Thread Graham Triggs
The 'work' directory is under the control of Tomcat. If the application specific directories are not being created, then it is almost certainly because the user that Tomcat is being run under does not have permission to write to the work directory. G On 7 April 2010 19:56, bryce ray

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-21 Thread Graham Triggs
On 20 September 2010 15:59, Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Damian Marinaccio wrote: I'm seeing the following log messages in catalina.out: [...] SEVERE: The web application [] appears to have started a thread named [FinalizableReferenceQueue] but has failed to

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-29 Thread Graham Triggs
On 29 September 2010 11:38, Hilton Gibson hilton.gib...@gmail.com wrote: Using the XMLUI. Does DSpace really need this and what happens when we go to one million items ?? Does DSpace really need that? No. As I have said, I'm running 30 separate repositories - using JSPUI (circa 1.4.2 / 1.5

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-29 Thread Graham Triggs
On 29 September 2010 11:48, Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk wrote: A lot of the back-end code of DSpace, the very core of it, is inherently inefficient I don't entirely disagree with that statement - there are some things that can definitely be improved, particularly where you have to deal with

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-29 Thread Graham Triggs
That begs the question as do you think something else should be chosen / recommended? There really isn't anything preventing you using Jetty, etc. but Tomcat is actually a pretty solid server that does a lot of things quite well - and particularly in recent versions in being defensive against bad

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-10-04 Thread Graham Triggs
On 29 September 2010 14:17, Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk wrote: I know you like to talk down the problem, but that really isn't helping. This isn't about talking down the problem - it's about finding where the real problems are and not just patching the immediate concerns. And considering the

[Dspace-tech] A simplified version of dspace-services and Tomcat unloading

2010-10-04 Thread Graham Triggs
Hello all, So, we've been debating the performance / resource usage of DSpace 1.6. This has just happened to coincide with work that I needed to do to qualify DSpace 1.6 (and/or 1.7) for our own use. So, for the past week or so, I've been hammering away at profiling DSpace. This isn't a

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-10-06 Thread Graham Triggs
On 5 October 2010 16:33, Simon Brown st...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Which nobody has requested, making this a massive red herring. I fail to see how cutting back on unnecessary and redundant database access constitutes overhead to cover up the problems of larger repositories. One person's

Re: [Dspace-tech] A simplified version of dspace-services and Tomcat unloading

2010-10-06 Thread Graham Triggs
On 5 October 2010 19:17, Sands Alden Fish sa...@mit.edu wrote: What resources were leaking here exactly? Leaking resources across requests can have some serious consequences depending on the resources, and I'm curious to know exactly what type of errant behavior we could expect from a 1.6.x

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace/Maven help request - update dependency version

2010-10-06 Thread Graham Triggs
That version of tm-extractors is quite old. There is a newer version on the Google site - http://code.google.com/p/text-mining/ - but it will take a bit of work wrapping things up for general use. It has dependencies on newer versions of POI than 0.4, and some distinct improvements to it's

Re: [Dspace-tech] A simplified version of dspace-services and Tomcat unloading

2010-10-10 Thread Graham Triggs
On 7 October 2010 06:55, Mark Diggory mdigg...@atmire.com wrote: You know I'm for (1) simplified spring only service manager. (2) jdbc data source delivered by servlet container (3) dropping reflectutils. Well, the JDBC datasource is a change to dspace-api rather than -services, but there is

Re: [Dspace-tech] manikin question

2010-10-10 Thread Graham Triggs
On 8 October 2010 19:06, Walker, David dwal...@calstate.edu wrote: breaking up the xslt into separate files for each page actually defeats the design goals of the XMLUI theming tier. I.E. having one file within which all customizations reside to manage your theme. I think there are

Re: [Dspace-tech] postgres/postmaster 99%

2010-11-10 Thread Graham Triggs
It's a second level browse - ie. if your 4th browse index is 'subject', then it's someone looking at all the items that have a particular subject entry. This shouldn't be that expensive a query (given there is no offset involved), but you may have an issue with an index missing (although the

Re: [Dspace-tech] A metadata schema for journals - Prism ?

2010-11-11 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi Robin, Theo is quite right - I think PRISM is a good standard for repositories to support for published material. In fact, it's probably more important for SWORD to be able to accept PRISM metadata than it is to support SWAP - given the majority of sources that might supply data via SWORD

Re: [Dspace-tech] postgres/postmaster 99%

2010-11-11 Thread Graham Triggs
-update though, should we run index-init?) and things went ok for a while, but now back up to 99% and the same query appears in pg_stat_activity. We are running Postgres 8.1.18. cheers, Steve On 11/11/2010, at 11:10 AM, Graham Triggs wrote: It's a second level browse - ie. if your 4th

Re: [Dspace-tech] postgres/postmaster 99%

2010-11-12 Thread Graham Triggs
(only via index-update though, should we run index-init?) and things went ok for a while, but now back up to 99% and the same query appears in pg_stat_activity. We are running Postgres 8.1.18. cheers, Steve On 11/11/2010, at 11:10 AM, Graham Triggs wrote: It's a second level browse - ie

Re: [Dspace-tech] Prism Metadata for DSpace

2010-11-14 Thread Graham Triggs
That's probably because a lot of the examples of Prism in practice relate to online publications - which don't have the same pagination requirements. If you have a look at Nature - for example: http://www.nature.com/nri/journal/v10/n11/full/nri2858.html - and view the source of that document, you

Re: [Dspace-tech] strange effect with dspace-1.7.0

2010-12-21 Thread Graham Triggs
That doesn't entirely surprise me - I've seen odd things with 2.0.x, and it all gets tied up with the overlay war capabilities that were introduced to the war plugin during that release cycle. As Maven 2.2.0 was released back in July(?) 2009, I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to just

Re: [Dspace-tech] Search

2011-01-04 Thread Graham Triggs
the problem is in the mask of number ##.### because the . can be a delimiter line. What do you thing? If anyone wants to know my DSpace is http://www.iof.mg.gov.br/ultima-edicao.html and send comments and suggestions. I'll be very happy. Regards, Marcelo On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Graham

Re: [Dspace-tech] browse index config changes not reflecting in nav panel (1.6.2)

2011-01-19 Thread Graham Triggs
Which UI are you using - JSP or XML? If it's XMLUI, then it sounds like it might be caching elements of the Cocoon pipeline, in which case you should stop the application and remove the cache from within the web application directory, and/or disable Cocoon caching. On 19 January 2011 15:03,

Re: [Dspace-tech] Lots of browse errors

2011-01-27 Thread Graham Triggs
Jeffrey, I agree with Claudia that the request itself looks odd. I would want to look at / find out what was generating that link in the first place. But at the same time, the code ought to be able to handle with this more gracefully (ie. know that it's an item index and ignore the value

Re: [Dspace-tech] Lost Indexes

2011-02-01 Thread Graham Triggs
Herbert, You need to work back through the stack trace. First thing you'll notice is that the BrowseException that is thrown in updateCommunityMappings is a wrapping of a caught SQLException. Following the stack trace of the SQLException ('caused by' in your output), you'll go through the Oracle

Re: [Dspace-tech] Re bugs in the Oracle implementation

2011-05-02 Thread Graham Triggs
Tim, There is absolutely no requirement to have an Oracle license for a testathon. The Oracle XE database is easy to install, works exactly the same as the full licensed copy, and we'll get nowhere near the limits in data sizes for the purposes of a testathon. I'm quite happy to assist with

Re: [Dspace-tech] Conflict with mixing metadata schemas and batch ingest

2011-05-09 Thread Graham Triggs
On 9 May 2011 09:31, Robin Taylor robin.tay...@ed.ac.uk wrote: 2) While you can mix metadata elements for an item from multiple schemas in manual submission, for the batch ingest you can only specify a single schema for the batch. I haven't used this in recent times but I thought you

Re: [Dspace-tech] Conflict with mixing metadata schemas and batch ingest

2011-05-10 Thread Graham Triggs
On 10 May 2011 16:44, Mark H. Wood mw...@iupui.edu wrote:

Re: [Dspace-tech] NPE error in searching after an upgrade to 1.7.1 (plus patches)

2011-05-15 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi, There is an error in the 1.7.1 source. Lines 170 171 of org.dspace.app.xmlui.aspect.artifactbrowser.AbstractSearch need to be moved so that they come after the call to performSearch(). These two lines are expecting the queryResults object to be set, but that won't happen until after the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Problem with ordering in browsing

2011-05-19 Thread Graham Triggs
Please take a look at a previous post of mine on this subject: http://dspace.2283337.n4.nabble.com/Browse-UTF-8-and-sorting-in-1-5-tp3281449p3281450.html Regards, G On 19 May 2011 15:18, Peter Dietz pdiet...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ladislav, I've noticed that our librarians here are happier

Re: [Dspace-tech] The file update-discovery-index not found...

2011-06-09 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi, All of the batch scripts have been replaced by a launcher. Typically, you would replace: bin/script name with bin/dspace script name So, in this case, you need to run 'bin/dspace update-discovery-index'. Regards, G On 9 June 2011 10:50, Sergiu Ioan Irimia sergiu.iri...@yahoo.com wrote:

Re: [Dspace-tech] The file update-discovery-index not found...

2011-06-09 Thread Graham Triggs
/launcher.xml As you can see, it has an 'update-discovery-index' command (configured to use the org.dspace.discovery.IndexClient class) Regards, G On 9 June 2011 14:33, Sergiu Ioan Irimia sergiu.iri...@yahoo.com wrote: Mr. Graham Triggs, I know how to use the dspace launcher: -server:Windows 2003

Re: [Dspace-tech] java.sql.SQLException: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: relation bi_5_dmap does not exist

2011-08-22 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi Ian, Sounds like the browse configuration that your web app is running with is out of sync with the database and/or the dspace.cfg. I would restart your web application, and run a 'bin/dspace index-init -r' to complete recreate the browse tables. Regards, G On 22 August 2011 12:18,

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] DSpace IDEs - Features, Observations, and Recommendations

2012-01-13 Thread Graham Triggs
On 13 January 2012 19:25, Peter Dietz pdiet...@gmail.com wrote: You can't debug XSLT development, but that doesn't bother me. As of IntelliJ IDEA 11 - well, the commercial 'Ultimate' edition - that isn't the case any more. If you create an XML file for the input that you expect to pass to the

Re: [Dspace-tech] dspace kernel java segfault error 6

2012-04-23 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi Evelio, It's very rare to see segfaults from Java in normal circumstances. And it's highly unlikely that the Apache proxy has any effect on it. There are really only two likely culprits for a segfault in this case: a) A bug in the Java virtual machine - this could be more likely if you are

Re: [Dspace-tech] dspace java upload limit

2012-05-24 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi, Using Maven 3 is not currently supported. Please use version 2.2.1. Regards, G On 24 May 2012 12:52, Ajay Parikh ajayparikh@gmail.com wrote: Dear All I am new to D-space as a developer I have install d-sapce. i am using Eclips to customize d-space . i have set up environment when

Re: [Dspace-tech] Aside: PostgreSQL 9 working well with DSpace

2012-06-15 Thread Graham Triggs
Actually, 8.2 went EOL at the end of last year, so it wouldn't hurt to make the official 'requirements' be at least 8.3, even if 8.2 happens to work. For the next release, I would even be tempted to say that the official minimum is 8.4 (it's already highly recommended). It may work with 8.3 /

Re: [Dspace-tech] Browser

2012-08-22 Thread Graham Triggs
Try right-clicking on the element, and selecting 'Inspect element' from the menu. If you look at the CSS for #ds-header-logo, you'll see that you are using a relative path for the header image. That isn't going to work as the URL changes. G On 22 August 2012 12:41, Webshet, Sisay (ILRI)

Re: [Dspace-tech] umlauts in Search results

2013-12-06 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi Kevin, Please see the comments in this class: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/03276502d60b2644c0c2e6e1ace8846eb6cd5bf5/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/sort/OrderFormat.java Note that for authors, the standard normalization used is:

Re: [Dspace-tech] Must I Build/Install as Tomcat service user?

2014-12-22 Thread Graham Triggs
On 19 December 2014 at 21:47, Chris Gray cpg...@uwaterloo.ca wrote: You will run into many problems along the way. I started that way and had to revert. DSpace seems to be programmed under the assumption that $CATALINA_BASE is the same as $CATALINA_HOME (which it isn't under the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Build Errors: DSpace 5.1 + Maven 2

2015-04-08 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi David, The installation document states that Maven 3.x is required. Regards, Graham On 06/04/2015 14:36:58, Baker, David A. daba...@milligan.edu wrote: I'm attempting a fresh install of 5.1 using the Maven 2 theme on Debian Wheezy. I'm getting errors on the build. I've tried both: mvn -U

Re: [Dspace-tech] Error after install of DSpace 5.1 (Additional information)

2015-04-08 Thread Graham Triggs
Is it at all possible that you have two separate processes / applications attempting to access the same Solr index - so one locks it, and the other is unable to? For example, maybe a context file under tomcat/config/Catalina/localhost and an application in tomcat/webapps? Regards, G On

Re: [Dspace-tech] Nested Metadata

2015-08-04 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi Peter, I think you may not be too far off with that approach. However, one key thing that gets missed - you provide an example where dc.contributor.author that captures rich metadata. Which we shouldn't be doing - dublin core is meant to be simple, and simple data is what we should be

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat bound to port 80

2015-08-03 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi, The error that you have received is because the main DSpace application can't communicate with the secondary Solr application - which by default it expects to be in the same Tomcat, and on the default port of 8080. Note that the circumstances of this error point to a very good reason why you

Re: [Dspace-tech] dspace import throws NullPointerException

2015-07-31 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi, I think the point is that the value is returning null - e.g. it is not set in your dspace.cfg - and so a null is passed into the new File(), and throwing a NullPointerException. Ugh. That code needs updating - the static initializer in ItemImport ought to have try {} catch around it, and

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