Re: [Dspace-tech] Running multiple instances of dspace on one machine/database

2007-01-17 Thread Mark Diggory
Yes, very akin to what you've documented below. We set up multiple DSpace under separate vhosts in Apache/Tomcat. This means One Apache httpd, One Tomcat Server, One Postgres cluster. We simply set each instance up under a directory analogous to its vhost name. You should be able to get

[Dspace-tech] Wiki Security and spam

2007-01-19 Thread Mark Diggory
Hello DSpace Community, Recently our our wiki tech support worked to put in place more security on the wiki to reduce the amount of spam. Two solutions were initially proposed by Larry Stone and myself to assist in this endeavor. Initial work was done, going ahead with what probably

Re: [Dspace-tech] connections to db seem to be getting stuck

2007-01-19 Thread Mark Diggory
What about postgres? How many connections is it making available? You'll want to roughly multiply it by the number of webapplications your running, so for instance db.maxconnections = 50 db.maxwait = 5000 db.maxidle = 5 running dspace.war, dspace-oai.war and dspace-srw.war postgres needs

Re: [Dspace-tech] connections to db seem to be getting stuck (Dorothea Salo)

2007-01-19 Thread Mark Diggory
The following does a decent postgres dump of dspace (we use it nightly to production as a backup and as means to copy/move the database into another instance: as your dspace user: pg_dump -o -C -Fc dspace /tmp/dspace-db.out' pg_restore -c -d dspace /tmp/dspace-db.out' I used the same to

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-07 Thread Mark Diggory
Hello Steve, Most any Linux/Unix is acceptable (Even Apple OSX and Windows have been attempted successfully). The requirements are more Application centric: Postgresql 7.3 or greater (the latest 8.x is recommended) Java 1.4 or greater (again recommend the latest 1.5) Tomcat 4.x or greater

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-07 Thread Mark Diggory
Thanks guys, but just to note, we know that in both these cases neither RHEL or Fedoras default GNU GCJ Java implementation or distribution channels were used to maintain the Java Stack. So in both cases the question of will it run on RHEL using the supported packages provided by Redhat

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-08 Thread Mark Diggory
, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Tim Donohue wrote: Mark (and Steve), Mark Diggory wrote: Tim, Nobody has yet to actually answer the deeper question about RHEL... How about you guys? Are you running DSpace on Java/Tomcat provided by RHEL support channels/updates or are you running on a rolled your

[Dspace-tech] Fwd: Open Forum for Metadata Registries 2007 - Call for Participants

2007-02-15 Thread Mark Diggory
For anyone interested Begin forwarded message: From: Gillman, Daniel - BLS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: February 15, 2007 4:06:17 PM EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Open Forum for Metadata Registries 2007 - Call for Participants Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a multi-part message in

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

2007-02-16 Thread Mark Diggory
While this wholy possible now (and actually a nice solution to the issue) I caution that the future path of DSpace Development could completely separate these web-applications dependencies as well. Jose, can't just deploy the web-applications one at a time by hand? -Mark On Feb 16, 2007,

Re: [Dspace-tech] Blocking an IP from accessing DSpace

2007-02-16 Thread Mark Diggory
There is a remote restriction valve you can place in tomcats server.xml to block certain IP. But I'm not so sure its as low level as you get out of Apache or Packet Filtering in Linux Valve className=org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve deny=61 \.145\.233\.118 / -Mark On Feb 16,

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

2007-02-16 Thread Mark Diggory
Jose, I want to rewind a little bit here and ask a few questions. So if you have a couple seconds, could you answer the following questions? I suspect you have one Oracle Database configured for DSpace and have altered your dspace.cfg to point at the database connection? # Database

Re: [Dspace-tech] Audio and video bitstreams

2007-02-21 Thread Mark Diggory
Darwin seems a great OS solution for Real Time Streaming. But, I'd just like to point out that theres a big difference between realtime streaming and the video starting before its finished downloading (something that quicktime supports without a real time streaming server). For instance

Re: [Dspace-tech] Search results customization

2007-02-26 Thread Mark Diggory
Mauro, Just so your aware, While the proposed solution will probably be the simplest to meet your current need. The work going on in the Manakin project provides a much more configurable UI that can support the type of customization such as your requesting. Manakin is also currently in

[Dspace-tech] Fwd: [Fedora-users] Fedora is moving to Sourceforge

2007-02-26 Thread Mark Diggory
Interesting News Begin forwarded message: From: Edwin Shin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: February 26, 2007 9:54:27 AM EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fedora-users] Fedora is moving to Sourceforge Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce that Fedora is moving to

Re: [Dspace-tech] Tomcat vs Resin (vs other containers)

2007-03-12 Thread Mark Diggory
We run timcat 5.5.x (mod_jk/Apache 2.0) in production on Gentoo/Java 5.0. I can't say that we've experienced any instability in tomcat along the lines your describing. -Mark On Mar 12, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Richard Jones wrote: Hi Graham, Tomcat has always, IMO, been mildly unstable, and

Re: [Dspace-tech] Authorization system: delegate admins patch

2007-03-19 Thread Mark Diggory
Tim, Sounds like the patch has been treating you well... How big a push does it need to get in? Sounds like something we are starting to need here at MIT. I see you mention some bugs in the patch ticket... were these at all resolved... Also how would this bode for your CSS work for

Re: [Dspace-tech] Authorization system: delegate admins patch

2007-03-21 Thread Mark Diggory
Andrea, I would recommend this is another patch outside the scope of the delegate admins patch. As the two are functionally different issues. I agree that its a problem, but the majority of the usage is in static main methods, I think that was its initial impetus. I'd like to see the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Authorization system: delegate admins patch

2007-03-21 Thread Mark Diggory
, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Mark Diggory wrote: Andrea, I would recommend this is another patch outside the scope of the delegate admins patch. As the two are functionally different issues. I agree that its a problem, but the majority of the usage is in static main methods, I think that was its

Re: [Dspace-tech] sshfs assetstore and index-all

2007-03-26 Thread Mark Diggory
I use it on Mac OSX for testing, it may be something platform specific with the linux version. I've run index-all successfully using it on OSX. -Mark On Mar 26, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Monika Mevenkamp wrote: I run vanilla dspace-1.4 with postgres on Ubuntu I used sshfs to mount the

Re: [Dspace-tech] sshfs assetstore and index-all

2007-03-27 Thread Mark Diggory
Grahams right Monika, sorry I missed that one... On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:14 AM, Graham Triggs wrote: Monika, Your local mount point is /var/www/dspace_root/assetstore - your asset store is only available (locally) through that path. However, your config file is set to have reference the

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] DSpace 1.4.2

2007-04-02 Thread Mark Diggory
Hi Jim, Heres a list of Patches I worked on/with and think are important to get in the loop: [ 1687783 ] Improve API for IgnoreAuthorization blocks http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detailaid=1687783group_id=19984atid=319984 [ 1655583 ] Avoid index lock with filter-media

Re: [Dspace-tech] redirect port 8443 to 80?

2007-04-06 Thread Mark Diggory
We use Apache, mod_jk and mod_rewrite to deliver the webapplication on port 80 and port 443 as separate VirtualHost entries in Apache httpd. We do not allow direct access to the tomcat server over port 8080 or port 8443. I can send some more detail of our configuration if you decide to go

Re: [Dspace-tech] redirect port 8443 to 80?

2007-04-07 Thread Mark Diggory
. but, they are trying to use NAT/port forwarding and this means those Tomcat ports are what are getting forwarded to. I'd say the quickest solution is to just block those ports from external requests in the NAT/firewall configuration. -Mark Diggory ~ Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Systems

Re: [Dspace-tech] Assetstore physical storage

2007-04-11 Thread Mark Diggory
Ryan, Yes, we have an ongoing project (PLEDGE) that is working to modify DSpace to support such capability. And we are working to get it into one of the next releases. http://pledge.mit.edu http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/AipPrototype http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/AssetStore Cheers,

Re: [Dspace-tech] the URI handle: what is it supposed to represent?

2007-04-18 Thread Mark Diggory
Please review the handle information in the documentation http://www.dspace.org/technology/system-docs/install.html you'll find that the default handles are just 123456789/ because you do not have a configured and registered a handle system. The handle server, which runs as a separate

Re: [Dspace-tech] Adding items without bitstreams

2007-04-20 Thread Mark Diggory
We've got a couple patches to the LNI stuff from John Fawcett of CARET which allow one to create collections/communities via LNI and Update/Delete Items. I don't see why the PAckager framework couldn't also be tailored to allow creating items without files. I don't see why the Submission UI

Re: [Dspace-tech] browse index problem

2007-04-21 Thread Mark Diggory
Jeff and Richard, We've noticed this shortcoming in the past as well. Anything that would make browse and search more consistent (as well as the actual viewed results under each column) would be welcomed by our users. -Mark On Apr 21, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Jeffrey A Trimble wrote: What we

Re: [Dspace-tech] srb/s3/etc and lucene

2007-05-03 Thread Mark Diggory
On 5/4/07, Cory Snavely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm just wondering, in specific terms, if we use an object-based storage system as an assetstore rather than a filesystem, where the files that Lucene indexes actually sit. Its tricky, this is what FilterMedia is for, it actually extracts

Re: [Dspace-tech] srb/s3/etc and lucene

2007-05-04 Thread Mark Diggory
cavalierly, and it it worth noting this dependency. Richard Quoting Mark Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 5/4/07, Cory Snavely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm just wondering, in specific terms, if we use an object- based storage system as an assetstore rather than a filesystem, where

Re: [Dspace-tech] File display order - how to change

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Diggory
Unfortunately, no. There is no specific sort key set when the bitstreams are resolved in the database (i.e. Bundler.getBistreams()) so the ordering is always based on the database and can change unpredictably as bitstreams are added/removed and when the database upgraded. We've had

Re: [Dspace-tech] Timeline for v1.5

2007-05-22 Thread Mark Diggory
I will make an explicitly unofficial statement that it is very likely. However, we are about 1/4 the way though the cycle. There is some documentation on the wiki about current plans: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/RoadMap -Mark On May 22, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Eric Luhrs wrote: Let me

Re: [Dspace-tech] RE : HTTPS login

2007-05-23 Thread Mark Diggory
}^/certificate-login.* [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}^/password-login.* RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R] SSLEngine off JkMount / ajp13 JkMount /* ajp13 /VirtualHost thank you, Mark Diggory On May 23, 2007, at 8:27 AM, Tellier, Stephane

Re: [Dspace-tech] Getting dspace started in at bootup.

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Diggory
You might double-check the rc level of your tomcat init, maybe you need to move it later in the boot sequence. -Mark On May 24, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Kyle Brentnell wrote: Hi Ben, Not sure which version of tomcat you are using, but in version 5 the JRE_HOME can be specified in tomcat5.conf

[Dspace-tech] IMPORTANT NOTICE: DSpace Subversion Trunk is now under active development for DSpace 1.5

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Diggory
and customized extensions. Please do forward this email onto your development and DSpace support staff and/or cross post to any other dspace list-services, forums or user groups, including a translation if possible for any international lists. thank you, Mark Diggory DSpace Commiters Group

Re: [Dspace-tech] Persistent identifiers in DSpace -- thoughtsplease

2007-05-25 Thread Mark Diggory
On May 25, 2007, at 6:35 PM, Graham Triggs wrote: Hi, 1) Why would an institution use more than one PI system? How do you determine which PI system generates a PId (base it on collection, community)? There are a lot of theoretical reasons why multiple PI schemes may be in use.

Re: [Dspace-tech] Persistent identifiers in DSpace -- thoughtsplease

2007-05-29 Thread Mark Diggory
/ABCD and also doi:6789/0 -- http://dspace.me.ac.uk/item/ABCD Don't conflate local and global identification. Cheers, Mark Diggory On May 29, 2007, at 7:52 AM, James Rutherford wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:56:58AM +0100, Graham Triggs wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 11:43 +0100, James

Re: [Dspace-tech] RE : Error: search/segments n ot found

2007-06-06 Thread Mark Diggory
Manakin and SRW should be compiled off of DSpace 1.4.2 directly and so should contain the new classes. You may find you have to restart your tomcat container and possibly run dsrun org.dspace.search.DSIndexer -c to rebuild the whole index from scratch once. I see a write.lock file

Re: [Dspace-tech] jhove / preingest / techMDExtractor

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Diggory
Hello Karen, That cvs directory never was not really intended to be used externally of MIT directly. We can however, give you an export of the project so that you have direct access to the code. But, this code was definitely an alpha grade prototype. Larry Stone is working on a new project

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Implicit authentication methods

2007-06-28 Thread Mark Diggory
Scott, We observe this bug in our production systems and need to find the fix as well. We have an implicit MIT Certificate Authentication thats failing to work directly against bitstreams because of it. -Mark On Jun 18, 2007, at 2:20 AM, Scott Yeadon wrote: OK, it's not null, the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Xml file with style sheet

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Diggory
Jose, ScottP also made things more generic in Manakin. the /bitstream/ service there can do very much the same thing that HTMLServlet does by making the sequence id optional. -Mark On Jul 3, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Blanco, Jose wrote: Yes. I worked on this today, and this is what I found out.

Re: [Dspace-tech] weird exception in index-all

2007-07-05 Thread Mark Diggory
This could possibly be an issue with the version of lucene on your classpath, could you doublecheck that your not getting a copy of an older version of lucene.jar in the way in your dspace.home/lib directory or on your users CLASSPATH environmental variable? Mark On Jul 5, 2007, at 2:15

Re: [Dspace-tech] Supported metadata schema (current and future)

2007-07-10 Thread Mark Diggory
DSpace can support hierarchical metadata while still allowing you users to search your content and harvesters to harvest it.. Cheers, Mark Diggory A related question - What is the status of implementing support for hierarchical schema? What are the plans for adding this functionality

Re: [Dspace-tech] [vote] Do we want to assign external identifiers (Handles) to files?

2007-07-19 Thread Mark Diggory
Jim, Just for clarification to the group... Its unclear what your requesting a vote on: Anyone can assign an external identifier to a Bitstream in an external identification system. Can you answer the two following questions for the group? 1.) Are you suggesting that we will support an

Re: [Dspace-tech] [vote] Do we want to assign external identifiers (Handles) to files?

2007-07-25 Thread Mark Diggory
Hello Kate, On Jul 25, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Ekaterina Pechekhonova wrote: We need to reiterate and recognize that in the DSpace 2.0 Architectural Model it was of strong interest that Metadata can be attached at any level of the Data Model (Community, Collection, Item, Manifestation and

Re: [Dspace-tech] configuring eclipse for dspace customizations

2007-08-04 Thread Mark Diggory
On Aug 4, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Christian Voelker wrote: Am 04.08.2007 um 05:00 schrieb zxie.dspace: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Guide_to_Developing_with_DSpace I bet, that is not the whole answer, although there were a lot of helpful hints added to the wiki recently, notably to this

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace and Z39.50

2007-08-14 Thread Mark Diggory
Hello, We also have a reorganized version of the OCLC SRW/U ported into the the DSpace 1.5 build system which we are planning to deploy on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and other DSpace instances at MIT Libraries. We've made it available to the public. The code is no different than the OCLC release

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Hide Community or Collection from the Communities and Collections page

2007-09-01 Thread Mark Diggory
Restricting access to Communites, Collection or Items directly is certainly not what DSpace was designed to do. This is really one of the real pain points of DSpace IMO. There are just so many places where the assumption that a container (Community/ Collection/Item) will be unrestricted. To

Re: [Dspace-tech] Item import in SQL

2007-09-14 Thread Mark Diggory
We do not advise working directly with SQL as the means for interacting with DSpace, rather use the DataModel, API and provided services to interact with DSpace. A great deal of effort has gone into defining an API which will allow the user to complete as much of the basic tasks as

Re: [Dspace-tech] Item import in SQL

2007-09-14 Thread Mark Diggory
We do not advise working directly with SQL as the means for interacting with DSpace, rather use the DataModel, API and provided services to interact with DSpace. A great deal of effort has gone into defining an API which will allow the user to complete as much of the basic tasks as

Re: [Dspace-tech] Item import in SQL

2007-09-14 Thread Mark Diggory
On Sep 14, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Mika Stenberg wrote: Huh? What is this good for? What is wrong with the existing importer? The importer itself seems to work fine. Its the DSpace web forms that lack the customization and flexibility that we need. And implementing a direct import from my

Re: [Dspace-tech] 1.5 build no target for dspace project

2007-09-15 Thread Mark Diggory
We recently had to readjust the build parameters in Maven, you'll need to use mvn package assembly:assembly The most accurate documentation at the moment is located at: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/SimpleAddonMechanism -Mark On Sep 15, 2007, at 9:47 PM, Zhiwu Xie wrote: Hi, I was

Re: [Dspace-tech] Removing E-People...

2007-09-18 Thread Mark Diggory
On Sep 18, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Dorothea Salo wrote: Do most DSpace respositories worry about removing old entries for e-people, or do you just let them reside in the system? We are debating the need to remove them, and when we do try to remove them we encounter that they are somehow

Re: [Dspace-tech] Extra characters spontaneously littering pages

2007-09-20 Thread Mark Diggory
Glad it resolved itself, I was scratching my head trying to come up with an explanation that would be helpful. Cheers, Mark Diggory On Sep 20, 2007, at 12:51 PM, Shane Beers wrote: We were unable to diagnose the exact issue that caused the problem, but a server reboot fixed the issue. Ah

Re: [Dspace-tech] Introducing myself...

2007-09-20 Thread Mark Diggory
/dspace Cheers, Mark Diggory On Sep 20, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Daniele Ninfo wrote: Hello, I'm a student of computer science engineering from Roma Tre university in Rome, my name is Daniele Ninfo. I will work on Dspace for my thesis, Andrea Bollini from CILEA will be my mentor. My objective

Re: [Dspace-tech] Pdf problems

2007-09-20 Thread Mark Diggory
We have introduced a setting in the dspace.cfg that will be available in dspace 1.5 and also 1.4.x branch (so it might be available if we do decide to do a 1.4.3 release). It is only in the JSPUI at the moment and allows for the control of the disposition header on Bitstreams being

Re: [Dspace-tech] OutOfMemory errors during large PDF indexing

2007-09-21 Thread Mark Diggory
* 1Gig) would eliminate most outlying cases where PDF docs need to be held in memory. -Mark Diggory On Sep 21, 2007, at 2:10 AM, Jayan Chirayath Kurian wrote: Hi! Tim, Here we faced similar errors while trying out full-text indexing on DSpace 1.4.1/windows 2003 standard edition. We had

Re: [Dspace-tech] OutOfMemory errors during large PDF indexing

2007-09-21 Thread Mark Diggory
, then I guess it's possible there's something in our local settings (or customizations of DSpace) which could be causing this issue. - Tim Mark Diggory wrote: We should consider adding more sane defaults, most machines that DSpace is running on have well over 1Gig of memory available

Re: [Dspace-tech] OutOfMemory errors during large PDF indexing

2007-09-22 Thread Mark Diggory
is to extract the full text of the pdf file.I am wondering it maybe has to do with the pdf file.Do you mean any pdf files whose size more than 10M can cause problem or only that pdf file? -- Website: www.drepository.com On 9/21/07, Mark Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also then recommend

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace .1.4.2 Hangs on telnet 8080

2007-11-06 Thread Mark Diggory
Chris, Either designate the dsapce war as the root webapp in your tomcat server.xml or change the name of its war to ROOT.war and redeploy it. Cheers, Mark Diggory . On Oct 31, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Boyd, Chris (NIH/NLM) [C] wrote: Gary, Thank you and every one for the help. The problem

Re: [Dspace-tech] Development goals

2007-11-16 Thread Mark Diggory
On Nov 16, 2007, at 3:40 AM, Christophe Dupriez wrote: Dear Michele (copy to the community), May be I am basically wrong seing DSpace as a community of practice making a tool to promote the dissemination of the good Open Repositories practices. No. I think your right on in this regard,

Re: [Dspace-tech] Differences between the data model and the trunk

2007-11-20 Thread Mark Diggory
On Nov 20, 2007, at 3:55 AM, Andrea Bollini wrote: Larry Stone ha scritto: Collection * - * Item It's worth noting that while an Item may be a member of multiple Collections, it still refers to only one of them as its owner; it is returned by getOwningCollection(). true but IMHO this

Re: [Dspace-tech] External database authentication in dspace

2007-11-26 Thread Mark Diggory
Yes, but this would require a bit of programming on your part. Because these are systems with custom protocols and implementation, you would need to implement your own AuthenticationMethod that would bridge the gap between the two systems allowing credentials/tokens/ cookies from the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Differences between the data model and the trunk

2007-11-26 Thread Mark Diggory
On Nov 21, 2007, at 2:44 AM, Larry Stone wrote: This is really getting out of scope for dspace-tech, But its important to discuss direction transparently, so I do not consider it out of scope. but I'd just like to make a plea to look at the data model in the abstract rather than at the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Importer error

2007-11-27 Thread Mark Diggory
Looks like a permissions error on the file system. If you are running tomcat under the tomcat user and your Importer under the dspace user this is an issue that will arise. I really haven't a great solution for this yet. I put the tomcat user in the dspace group and set a sticky bit on the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Restoring a deleted Group

2007-11-27 Thread Mark Diggory
If you have a sql dump backup from just prior to the incident you could diff it against a new dump for comparison of what exactly is different. Merging in the entries that were removed from epersongroups and its various tables and then do a full restore of the merged sql dump. But you'll

Re: [Dspace-tech] Restoring a deleted Group

2007-11-27 Thread Mark Diggory
you've not made changes to these tables since the incident... -Mark On Nov 27, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Mark Diggory wrote: If you have a sql dump backup from just prior to the incident you could diff it against a new dump for comparison of what exactly is different. Merging in the entries

Re: [Dspace-tech] Status of Pluggable Storage Interface

2007-12-07 Thread Mark Diggory
We actually have a scaling issue we are exploring on our operations with the current assetstore implementation and clustered NAS storage and having this be plug-able would allow us to explore an alternate assetstore structure much more easily. -Mark On Dec 7, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Mark H.

Re: [Dspace-tech] dspace sword

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Diggory
While I don't discount the benefits of delivering the sword service with the dspace distribution. We are really reaching a point where we need to consider if it is better to manage each of these addons independently in different version trees and simply combine them together into a common

Re: [Dspace-tech] dspace sword

2007-12-13 Thread Mark Diggory
On Dec 11, 2007, at 4:23 AM, Richard Jones wrote: Hi Mark, Due to the current limitations of the maven build system, which does a fine job of managing source code modularity, but cannot yet cope with the more subtle angles of adding new modules, many existing modules (sword included) cannot

Re: [Dspace-tech] Protected PDF documents

2007-12-13 Thread Mark Diggory
Hello Jayan, I'd look for bouncycastle jars in your lib directory, if they are absent, you'll need to get them, you might just download dspace 1.4.2 and copy them out of there. -Mark On Dec 13, 2007, at 10:31 PM, Jayan Chirayath Kurian wrote: Hi! Issuing MediaFilterManager command on

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 fresh install

2007-12-14 Thread Mark Diggory
or do you encounter a situation where you really require the war? Cheers, Mark On Dec 14, 2007, at 8:56 AM, Mark Diggory wrote: Are you working with the 1.5.x branch or with the alpha release? On Dec 14, 2007, at 8:54 AM, Dmitry Chaly wrote: Hi, I trying to install DSpace 1.5, but i've failed

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 fresh install

2007-12-14 Thread Mark Diggory
Are you working with the 1.5.x branch or with the alpha release? On Dec 14, 2007, at 8:54 AM, Dmitry Chaly wrote: Hi, I trying to install DSpace 1.5, but i've failed. I've built DSpace using maven and everything was ok. (maven package assembly:assmebly) Then, i've tried ant fresh_install,

Re: [Dspace-tech] why vanilla?

2007-12-14 Thread Mark Diggory
I think there is a big difference between projects and installations. So thats way to vague a category to be of use to people needing info on DSpace installation procedures. I think that there should be a clearly defined location on entry to the site that contains tutorials and

Re: [Dspace-tech] Duplicate content-length in http header

2007-12-22 Thread Mark Diggory
Jose, Can you qualify what version of DSpace you are using (soon we will also need to ask whether you are also using jspui or xmlui). cheers, Mark On Dec 21, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Blanco, Jose wrote: A user has noticed that while attempting to retrieve a bitstream from our Dspace instance

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace 1.5 alpha fresh_install

2008-01-02 Thread Mark Diggory
I would recommend checking out the current 1_5_x svn branch over using the alpha, we need to cut a beta soon, too many fixes or changes to the build system have occurred since the alpha. -Mark On Jan 2, 2008, at 5:44 AM, Claudia Jürgen wrote: Hi Mika, a Happy New Year to you and the rest

Re: [Dspace-tech] Mapping Manakin Templates to Pages

2008-01-09 Thread Mark Diggory
Like that one too. I recommended to him to save the previous page and change the POST to a GET, then he'd have an address in the browser that he could insert XML or DRI into to his hearts content. Yours arrives at the same end. On Jan 9, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Scott Phillips wrote: Sands,

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

2008-01-16 Thread Mark Diggory
Chad, Looks like you checked out the trunk and not the dspace-1_5_x branch http://dspace.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dspace/branches/dspace-1_5_x/ cheers, Mark On Jan 16, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Chad Hansen wrote: Well, I am progressing (slowly). I have now taken your advise and upgraded to

Re: [Dspace-tech] Collection Names with metadata values

2008-01-16 Thread Mark Diggory
I think this should be possible with a Manakin theme by implementing your own xslt template for the search/browse results. Alternatively, you could hack the JSPUI taglibrary to change the rendering in the JSPUI. But its not something that is configurable in dspace.cfg if that is what your

Re: [Dspace-tech] Help! Unable to pg_restore, utterly confused

2008-01-23 Thread Mark Diggory
Steve, can you post the pg_dump command and options you've used? -Mark On Jan 23, 2008, at 9:08 PM, Steve Thomas wrote: I need help! I'm using pg_dump to make a backup of our database, and ... sensibly, I think ... wanted to confirm that we could restore from this dump using

Re: [Dspace-tech] Help! Unable to pg_restore, utterly confused

2008-01-24 Thread Mark Diggory
On Jan 23, 2008, at 11:53 PM, Steve Thomas wrote: Yup, sorry -- should have included that. Dump was done using: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump \ --verbose \ --oids \ --create \ --format=c \ --username=dspace \ dspace dumpfile You might try dumping to a file explicitly ( -f dumpfile )

Re: [Dspace-tech] How to get the connection to DSpace(how to build the DSpace request in Application)

2008-01-24 Thread Mark Diggory
In SRW we have an example from our dome.mit.edu service http://dome.mit.edu/dspace-srw/search/DSpace?query=dc.title+%3D+% 22David%22+and+dc.creator+%3D+%22Michelangelo% 22version=1.1operation=searchRetrievemaximumRecords=10startRecord=1 resultSetTTL=300recordPacking=xml -Mark On Jan 24,

Re: [Dspace-tech] Is v1.5 buildable in Eclipse? Please help.

2008-01-24 Thread Mark Diggory
Eric, Did you build in the top level directory or within the directory called dspace ( i.e. branches/dspace-1_5_x/dspace ) You need to build in the latter to get dspace to build an installable distribution in branches/dspace-1_5_x/dspace/traget/dspace-1.5- SNAPSHOT This will get easier

Re: [Dspace-tech] Fwd: Is v1.5 buildable in Eclipse? Please help.

2008-01-25 Thread Mark Diggory
No, thats just a missing id tag in the assembly xml file. It started showing up in the previous release of maven (2.0.7) On Jan 25, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Eric Luhrs wrote: The only thing I'm not sure about is why my target directory has the word null in it: dspace-1.5-SNAPSHOT-null.dir.

Re: [Dspace-tech] DC metadata dilemma

2008-02-06 Thread Mark Diggory
Extending dc in that way is not a very good idea IMO, and I think the DC community would not find it a acceptable practice to produce such an ad hoc re-qualification of author and affiliation. For the time being until relationships can be drawn between metadata fields in dspace. I would

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dublin Core Citations

2008-02-08 Thread Mark Diggory
Sorry if this is a little stream of consciousness, my response was authored as I was researching the literature... This isn't a new topic... You may find this to be of use to establish a historical context: http://dublincore.org/usage/meetings/2002/05/citdcsv.html

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Beta 1 has been released

2008-02-13 Thread Mark Diggory
Note, we are waiting for the sync with the maven central repository for all the supporting artifacts... this should happen momentarily, but until then the dspace-1.5.0-beta1-release will complain about not finding dependencies. If your chomping at the bit to install and encounter this,

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 beta 1

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Diggory
I tend to think we would get further faster by refactoring the existing system to meet our needs and the requirements outlined in the Architectural review. I took a 20 minute analysis of the codebase and determined the following Tom, I hadn't realized there was this duplication between

Re: [Dspace-tech] dspace customisation help required.

2008-02-18 Thread Mark Diggory
Veena, We are exploring a similar subject at MIT, we would like to have controlled values in populated forms during the users submission process populated via an external database source. Right now, we expect to replace the Some of the code that reads the input-forms and cv files with an

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace Remote APIs

2008-02-22 Thread Mark Diggory
I'll just note that both SWORD and LNI use the same DSpace Packager implementation and should support the same packaging formats. On Feb 22, 2008, at 4:06 AM, Stuart Lewis wrote: Hi Rob, I'm trying to find out more information about DSpace remote APIs. I've found the following wiki page

Re: [Dspace-tech] RSS feed error

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Diggory
Missing Channel Description errors occur when the collection or community in question does not have a description. On Feb 26, 2008, at 8:25 AM, Jeffrey Trimble wrote: I'm receiving a RSS feed error, and I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is looking for. My RSS feeds for my own

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace build error

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Diggory
using mvn -U package (which will force and update of your local repository) or if that does not work you may try removing the local repository altogether and reinitializing it (its usually under ~/.m2/repository) Cheers, Mark Diggory On Feb 26, 2008, at 7:18 AM, yinjin wrote: Hi All, I'm

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace build error

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Diggory
Great, I'm glad we are starting to see that -U is enough to fix the problem. I think I will put it in the docs for the next 1.5 cut. On Feb 26, 2008, at 1:01 PM, yinjin wrote: Thanks, Mark. mvn -U package works. :) Ying - Original Message - From: Mark Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace Remote APIs

2008-02-27 Thread Mark Diggory
Robin, This is interesting... You should post it... Have you seen this patch? https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detailaid=1898241group_id=19984atid=319984 It ends up using ItemExporter for a similar case... My only problem with this (and I stated it in the referenced ticket)

Re: [Dspace-tech] Moving DSpace handle server to new server

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Diggory
It really depends on if your changing the hostname/domain as well. Are you going to carry the hostname along to the new server as a virtualhost? -Mark On Mar 13, 2008, at 2:30 AM, Robin Taylor wrote: Unfortunately I believe that moving to a new hostname/IP does require you to notify

Re: [Dspace-tech] Automatic system alert when tomcat is down.

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Diggory
Yes, there are also enterprise grade monitoring tools out there you can use to make sure that services are correctly functioning on your systems. We currently use an open source tool called Nagios. http:// www.nagios.org/ -Mark On Mar 13, 2008, at 5:49 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: Um, in

Re: [Dspace-tech] out of memory error - statistics and community pages

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Diggory
I tend to agree, If your encountering issues with Communities that contain many collection/subcommunities, then you are more than likely hitting a limit on the number of these object in memory at the same time. I would first try boosting your memory usage... You can safely push it to

Re: [Dspace-tech] Forcing HTTP for everything except login

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Diggory
Its hard to leave out Apache out of the solution for what your attempting. Our solution in Apache on dspace.mit.edu looks like... dspace.mit.edu.conf... ## SSL Virtual Host Context VirtualHost 18.51.3.32:443 ... RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}

Re: [Dspace-tech] Forcing HTTP for everything except login

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Diggory
/windows/tomcat Cheers, Mark On Mar 13, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Jayan Chirayath Kurian wrote: Hello Mark, To enable this on a Windows machine are there any related documentation available. Thanks, Jayan -Original Message- From: Mark Diggory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March

Re: [Dspace-tech] news, javascript and Manakin

2008-03-19 Thread Mark Diggory
-formed XHTML, and from there into DRI. Cheers Con On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 07:38 -0700, Mark Diggory wrote: I know where he's going with it though... Are there any generic XSLT libraries for rendering RSS feeds? Maybe the News.xmls should just be rss feeds, not DRI? -Mark On Mar 19

Re: [Dspace-tech] news, javascript and Manakin

2008-03-19 Thread Mark Diggory
On Mar 19, 2008, at 8:44 PM, Conal Tuohy wrote: On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 18:52 -0700, Mark Diggory wrote: On Mar 19, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Conal Tuohy wrote: If its a question of it being well formed xhtml coming out of the template... A simple Java class can be created to assist in this area

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