[Dspace-tech] How does wildcard behave in Discovery search filters?

2015-08-20 Thread Alan Orth
Hi, I was looking at our Discovery sidebar facet configuration and I noticed we have items using both dc.type as well as dc.type.output fields. Now I'm wondering how the following search filter configuration would behave: valuedc.type.*/value Would that capture both dc.type as well as

Re: [Dspace-tech] How does wildcard behave in Discovery search filters?

2015-08-20 Thread Alan Orth
On 20 August 2015 at 08:44, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was looking at our Discovery sidebar facet configuration and I noticed we have items using both dc.type as well as dc.type.output fields. Now I'm wondering how the following search filter configuration would behave

Re: [Dspace-tech] How to update Discovery index for a specific handle?

2015-08-18 Thread Alan Orth
/dspaceBatch.sh#L282-L291 Background thread: http://sourceforge.net/p/dspace/mailman/message/31838611/ Terry On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, When I edit items in the web user interface, either by batch CSV upload or one by one in Edit this Item, DSpace

[Dspace-tech] How to update Discovery index for a specific handle?

2015-08-17 Thread Alan Orth
Hi, When I edit items in the web user interface, either by batch CSV upload or one by one in Edit this Item, DSpace updates the Discovery indexes for the item(s) in question. Sometimes I have to make changes in SQL directly, like to delete empty metadatavalues, and as far as I know the only way

[Dspace-tech] Comparison of DSpace 4 and DSpace 5 PDF thumbnails

2015-08-11 Thread Alan Orth
look like there were any thumbnail-related issues in 5.2 or 5.3. Regards, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com https://alaninkenya.org https://mjanja.ch In heaven all the interesting people are missing. -Friedrich Nietzsche GPG public key ID: 0x8cb0d0acb5cd81ec209c6cdfbd1a0e09c2f836c0

Re: [Dspace-tech] ant update while Tomcat running

2015-08-04 Thread Alan Orth
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Re: [Dspace-tech] How to find item with strange metadata value of |||

2015-08-02 Thread Alan Orth
2A1A FAEC https://keybase.io/kshepherd On 1 August 2015 at 01:28, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: So I found the metadata_field_id for this metadata item using a known valid value: dspace=# select * from metadatavalue where text_value='DRYLAND CEREALS'; ... and then I tried to find text

Re: [Dspace-tech] How to find item with strange metadata value of |||

2015-07-31 Thread Alan Orth
. Anyone know how I could query Solr directly for this information? Alan On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 9:35 AM Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the interesting suggesting, Kim! This is happening in DSpace 4.3. I will try to poke around in the database, as you're probably right

Re: [Dspace-tech] How to find item with strange metadata value of |||

2015-07-31 Thread Alan Orth
On 30 July 2015 at 20:45, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've got an strange metadata value shown in one of our XMLUI Discovery sidebar facets, and I'm not sure how to find the offending item to fix it. The value is displaying as |||, and I've narrowed down the collection the item

[Dspace-tech] How to find item with strange metadata value of |||

2015-07-30 Thread Alan Orth
Hi, I've got an strange metadata value shown in one of our XMLUI Discovery sidebar facets, and I'm not sure how to find the offending item to fix it. The value is displaying as |||, and I've narrowed down the collection the item belongs to by navigating through my communities and looking at the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Ciphers in server.xml

2015-07-16 Thread Alan Orth
/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com https://alaninkenya.org https://mjanja.ch In heaven all

Re: [Dspace-tech] Vagrant or Docker

2015-06-25 Thread Alan Orth
My opinion: deploy on a dedicated machine environment (hardware or software). Containers are cool but still, I haven't figured out how they fit into my workflow yet. Even for simple testing, a VM is an easier concept to grasp, rather than figuring out all the hipster devops Docker jargon, and THEN

Re: [Dspace-tech] How to search items by metadata using REST API?

2015-06-17 Thread Alan Orth
, The following PR has some code that will search metadata via the API: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/954 I am also on 4.3, so this code is compatible with DSpace4.3. Terry On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, it seems the `/rest/items/find-by-metadata-field

Re: [Dspace-tech] OAI behind a proxy

2015-06-17 Thread Alan Orth
Hi, Domingo. It looks like your JSPUI is running on /dspace, so you just need to make sure you proxy to the OAI application as /oai. The OAI app will use the same dspace.hostname parameter from dspace.cfg, just like JSPUI and XMLUI, etc. Alan On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:33 AM Domingo Iglesias

Re: [Dspace-tech] What's the plan for Browse by functionality?

2015-06-13 Thread Alan Orth
/browse system. The old Lucene / DB-based search and browse system is deprecated and will be removed in the near future. - Tim On 6/10/2015 5:22 AM, Alan Orth wrote: Hi, Discovery's great but Browse by does some things that we like, such as being able to paginate the results (compare

Re: [Dspace-tech] URL REST Call to return XML

2015-06-11 Thread Alan Orth
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Re: [Dspace-tech] How to search items by metadata using REST API?

2015-06-11 Thread Alan Orth
Content-Type: application/json -X POST https://demo.dspace.org/rest/items/find-by-metadata-field; -d '{key: dc.title,value: Test Webpage,language: en_US}' Em qua, 10 de jun de 2015 às 14:08, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com escreveu: Hey, I'm using DSpace 4.3 and trying to search for items

Re: [Dspace-tech] How to search items by metadata using REST API?

2015-06-11 Thread Alan Orth
Ah, it seems the `/rest/items/find-by-metadata-field` endpoint doesn't exist in DSpace 4.x. Neither does the `/rest/login` endpoint. The docs need to make more of a point to say which versions these are supposed to work in... ;) Alan On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:24 PM Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com

[Dspace-tech] What's the plan for Browse by functionality?

2015-06-10 Thread Alan Orth
://cgspace.cgiar.org/browse?type=ilrisubject [1] Filter by: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/search-filter?field=ilrisubject -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com https://alaninkenya.org https://mjanja.ch In heaven all the interesting people are missing. -Friedrich Nietzsche GPG public key ID

[Dspace-tech] How to search items by metadata using REST API?

2015-06-10 Thread Alan Orth
/tree/master/dspace-rest -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com https://alaninkenya.org https://mjanja.ch In heaven all the interesting people are missing. -Friedrich Nietzsche GPG public key ID: 0x8cb0d0acb5cd81ec209c6cdfbd1a0e09c2f836c0

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace XMLUI theme customisation help wiki

2015-06-08 Thread Alan Orth
Fantastic guide, Hilton. Maybe this will inspire me to update our themes to Mirage 2. Our DSpace 1.6-era Mirage 1-based themes are really starting to show their age! We have 20+ custom themes in our institutional repository[0]... it's quite an undertaking! Alan [0]

[Dspace-tech] How to back up Solr data?

2015-05-29 Thread Alan Orth
/solr/Backing+Up -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com https://alaninkenya.org https://mjanja.ch In heaven all the interesting people are missing. -Friedrich Nietzsche GPG public key ID: 0x8cb0d0acb5cd81ec209c6cdfbd1a0e09c2f836c0

[Dspace-tech] Handle server limit (99999 items?)

2015-05-07 Thread Alan Orth
Hi, I'm wondering what happens when the handle server reaches item number 9? Our handle server is currently at 65000 or so, so this could be a problem for us in the next year or less. Thanks, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com https://alaninkenya.org https://mjanja.ch In heaven all

Re: [Dspace-tech] Handle server limit (99999 items?)

2015-05-07 Thread Alan Orth
University Library http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html On 7 May 2015 at 09:15, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm wondering what happens when the handle server reaches item number 9? Our handle server is currently at 65000 or so, so this could be a problem

[Dspace-tech] Moving collections in DSpace = 4.0?

2015-03-18 Thread Alan Orth
Hi, I'm wondering how to move a collection to a new community in DSpace versions = 4.0. In the past, with DSpace 3.x, I would simply[0] find the resource_id for the collection, its parent, and the new parent, then update the relationships in SQL: UPDATE community2collection SET

Re: [Dspace-tech] Modules?

2015-03-18 Thread Alan Orth
://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com https://alaninkenya.org https://mjanja.ch In heaven all the interesting people are missing. -Friedrich Nietzsche GPG public key

Re: [Dspace-tech] Split up input-forms.xml?

2015-03-13 Thread Alan Orth
; form-definitions basic; /form-definitions ... /input-forms We are using 4.2. Hope this helps Claudia Jürgen Am 12.03.2015 um 14:07 schrieb Alan Orth: Hey, all. Our institution has many groups collaborating on one DSpace repository

[Dspace-tech] Split up input-forms.xml?

2015-03-12 Thread Alan Orth
Hey, all. Our institution has many groups collaborating on one DSpace repository and we have many sets of metadata terms. In the beginning we thought it was clever to add them to input-forms.xml, but now this file is nearly 6,000 lines, which is a pain to manage and causes problems when we rebase

Re: [Dspace-tech] Character encoding issues in Discovery search results

2015-02-13 Thread Alan Orth
, don't forget to make a back up first. Cheers, Aleksandar Stojanov On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, bender. No, we didn't figure this out. In fact, it's still an open issue on our institution's GitHub issue tracker! https://github.com/ilri/DSpace

Re: [Dspace-tech] Character encoding issues in Discovery search results

2015-02-12 Thread Alan Orth
...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alan: Did you solved this issue? And how? If you did. Bender 2014-12-09 13:09 GMT-03:00 Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com: Antoine, In this case the dspace script respects the environment's JAVA_OPTS if it is set; the one in the script is only used if JAVA_OPTS

Re: [Dspace-tech] Enabling SSL

2014-12-11 Thread Alan Orth
Also, I realized early on there are many reasons to terminate your SSL with something other than Tomcat. We used Apache http for a while, and now I've switched to nginx. For reference, here's our nginx vhost config: https://gist.github.com/alanorth/ddde5e9d6c55b3637513 You'll want the

[Dspace-tech] Character encoding issues in Discovery search results

2014-12-09 Thread Alan Orth
and manually re-run `filter-media' as well as `index-discovery -b' What could I be missing? Thanks! -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com https://alaninkenya.org https://mjanja.ch In heaven all the interesting people are missing. -Friedrich Nietzsche GPG public key ID: 0x8cb0d0acb5cd81ec209c6cdfbd1a0e09c2f836c0

Re: [Dspace-tech] Character encoding issues in Discovery search results

2014-12-09 Thread Alan Orth
Antoine, In this case the dspace script respects the environment's JAVA_OPTS if it is set; the one in the script is only used if JAVA_OPTS is empty. Alan On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Antoine Snyers anto...@atmire.com wrote: Hi Alan Orth -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 should be added to the bin

Re: [Dspace-tech] Issues with OpenSearch sortFields and sorting order

2014-12-03 Thread Alan Orth
Christian, Wow, thank you! I've just managed to create a proper RSS feed for a certain metadata field and sort it by dc.date.accessioned in descending order. Now, the DSpace documentation is 100% wrong in several places with regards to the setup of OpenSearch... for example, I had to define

[Dspace-tech] Issues with OpenSearch sortFields and sorting order

2014-12-02 Thread Alan Orth
Hi, I'm playing with OpenSearch in DSpace 4.2 and I'm having a couple of issues. I see OpenSearch uses the Discovery configuration, so I'm investigating `discovery.xml'. Here are two related issues I'm having: 1- I've added a custom sortField for dc.date.accessioned and added it to my bean's

Re: [Dspace-tech] ant update command!

2014-11-23 Thread Alan Orth
Hi, Nada. Those two commands are the same; it uses config/dspace.cfg by default, which is what most people should use. This is what I do, for example: mvn -U clean package cd dspace/target/dspace-4.2-build ant update Alan On Sun Nov 23 2014 at 4:22:58 PM Nada Abo Eita naboeit...@gmail.com

[Dspace-tech] HiDPI favicon?

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Orth
I never noticed until I had a HiDPI screen (MacBook Pro with Retina screen), but the default favicon for XMLUI and probably JSPUI is pretty low definition. Right now we're using 16x16 pixels, but we should be using something more like 48x48 or even 128x128, see some examples:

Re: [Dspace-tech] HiDPI favicon?

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Orth
Ah, that's great, helix. They're high-res enough that we could easily get a 64x64 pixel favicon out of them. Tim? Alan On Wed Nov 05 2014 at 4:37:42 PM helix84 heli...@centrum.sk wrote: Hi Alan, we should probably use this one instead:

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

2014-10-30 Thread Alan Orth
systems to reference checking systems to fancy website thumbnail services just work better and more reliably over http than https. cheers stuart -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com https://alaninkenya.org https://mjanja.ch In heaven all the interesting people are missing. -Friedrich Nietzsche GPG

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

2014-10-28 Thread Alan Orth
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 alan.o...@gmail.com *Sent:* Monday

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

2014-10-27 Thread Alan Orth
I was just poking around and noticed we conditionally load Google Analytics over SSL. We should *always* load ga.js over SSL. Bug here: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2220 Patch and pull request is linked in bug report. Cheers, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com https://alaninkenya.org

Re: [Dspace-tech] Using DSpace with https

2014-10-27 Thread Alan Orth
. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o

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

2014-09-15 Thread Alan Orth
Cheers stuart *From:*Alan Orth [mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Sunday, 14 September 2014 7:39 p.m. *To:* Ivan Masár *Cc:* dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [Dspace-tech] Recommended TLS cipher suite for sites using HTTPS Hi, Hilton. Thanks for your

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

2014-09-14 Thread Alan Orth
you their recommendations. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke In heaven all the interesting people are missing

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

2014-09-13 Thread Alan Orth
! -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ GPG public key ID

Re: [Dspace-tech] IPv4/6 double stack setup and session hijacking prevention

2014-07-02 Thread Alan Orth
Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my

[Dspace-tech] Anyone played with G1 garbage collector in JDK7?

2014-07-01 Thread Alan Orth
://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Performance+Tuning+DSpace [1] http://blog.sematext.com/2013/06/24/g1-cms-java-garbage-collector/ [2] http://www.aioug.org/sangam12/Presentations/20155.pdf -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer

Re: [Dspace-tech] Batch update of meta data using SQL?

2014-06-15 Thread Alan Orth
Initiatives jcr...@library.tamu.edu mailto:jcr...@library.tamu.edu On Jun 13, 2014, at 1039, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We've updated some of our controlled vocabularies for new conventions in our organization, like TECHNICAL REPORT - REPORT

[Dspace-tech] Batch update of meta data using SQL?

2014-06-13 Thread Alan Orth
records across the whole repository which need to be updated. I assume SQL is the only way? I'm not very familiar with DSpace's PostgreSQL schema, so I really need advice on how to approach this in a safe way. We're on DSpace 3.1. Thanks, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org

Re: [Dspace-tech] JAVA_OPTS for cron jobs?

2014-05-30 Thread Alan Orth
their JAVA_OPTS to in crontab. The long term plan of course is to move to a machine with more memory (currently 4GB). Thanks, DSpace version is 3.1, OS is Ubuntu 12.04. -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer

Re: [Dspace-tech] JAVA_OPTS for cron jobs?

2014-05-30 Thread Alan Orth
-5005 x809 On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Peter, Ahh, that's very interesting. I just looked up the -server flag and it seems on recent Sun/Oracle JVMs -server is implied on 64-bit Linux platforms[0

[Dspace-tech] Anomaly in moving collection to new community

2014-05-28 Thread Alan Orth
? :) -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ GPG public key ID

Re: [Dspace-tech] Anomaly in moving collection to new community

2014-05-28 Thread Alan Orth
Stellenbosch 7599 South Africa Tel: +27 21 808 4100 | Cell: +27 84 646 4758 http://scholar.sun.ac.za http://bit.ly/goodir http://library.sun.ac.za http://za.linkedin.com/in/hiltongibson On 28 May 2014 08:36, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

[Dspace-tech] JAVA_OPTS for cron jobs?

2014-05-20 Thread Alan Orth
of course is to move to a machine with more memory (currently 4GB). Thanks, DSpace version is 3.1, OS is Ubuntu 12.04. -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true

Re: [Dspace-tech] Pxpdf-mediafilter configuration

2014-02-07 Thread Alan Orth
@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my

Re: [Dspace-tech] Pxpdf-mediafilter configuration

2014-02-07 Thread Alan Orth
Also, you will need to enable Xpdf in dspace.cfg... just in case the docs don't make sense, here's my commit which does this for our DSpace: https://github.com/ilri/DSpace/commit/30c1460bb17d5e357a4002503da8cc066c823449 Alan On 02/07/2014 11:12 AM, Alan Orth wrote: Morning from Nairobi, Robert

[Dspace-tech] Heisenbug with item mapping in AIP import

2014-01-22 Thread Alan Orth
only some of the collections they are mapped to, but if you navigate to another collection you can see it there * Some items are mapped to incorrect collections entirely Has anyone else noticed this? Both DSpaces are 3.1 with PostgreSQL 9.1, on Linux of course. Thanks, -- Alan Orth alan.o

Re: [Dspace-tech] Heisenbug with item mapping in AIP import

2014-01-22 Thread Alan Orth
*changes*, attempting to maintain all mappings becomes extremely complex. - Tim On 1/22/2014 10:04 AM, Alan Orth wrote: Hi, I'm trying to migrate a community hierarchy between two different DSpace instances using AIP Import (in -s mode), and I'm seeing unpredictable behavior with mapped

Re: [Dspace-tech] Migrate community with AIP?

2014-01-21 Thread Alan Orth
#BatchMetadataEditing-ExportFunction On Jan 20, 2014 8:25 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've just decided I will export the metadata (CSV) and clean it up manually, then re-import before I export via AIP. This works great

Re: [Dspace-tech] Migrate community with AIP?

2014-01-20 Thread Alan Orth
these fields are in the database, so I'll have to use SQL to clean them up after importing via AIP? I'm not sure where to look in the DB... Thanks, Alan On 01/17/2014 09:12 AM, Alan Orth wrote: Thanks, both Tim and Helix. Yes, I initially looked into the -r mode, but then realized that, as Tim

[Dspace-tech] Migrate community with AIP?

2014-01-16 Thread Alan Orth
- dc.date.available - dc.identifier.uri I can't figure out a work flow that doesn't produce this effect... Thanks, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can

Re: [Dspace-tech] Migrate community with AIP?

2014-01-16 Thread Alan Orth
and bitstreams, then meta data cleanup of the resulting community to clean the old URIs and accession dates etc. Thanks for bouncing some ideas around! Alan On 01/16/2014 06:39 PM, Tim Donohue wrote: Hi Alan, On 1/16/2014 9:10 AM, Alan Orth wrote: Hi, I've got a development instance where we uploaded

[Dspace-tech] Ansible playbook to deploy DSpace

2013-12-18 Thread Alan Orth
DSpace servers for our environment (since I seem to be setting up a lot of testing/production environments lately, both virtual and physical). Check it out, try it, and send me pull requests. :) [0] https://github.com/alanorth/ansible-dspace [1] https://github.com/DSpace/vagrant-dspace -- Alan

Re: [Dspace-tech] PDF Thumbnail Resolution

2013-11-26 Thread Alan Orth
://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup

Re: [Dspace-tech] PDF Thumbnail Resolution

2013-11-26 Thread Alan Orth
List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how

[Dspace-tech] [RFC] Incorrect Java Vendor in DSpace control panel

2013-08-15 Thread Alan Orth
, not the specification vendor here. If I make an issue on Jira and a GitHub commit, would people appreciate that? Cheers, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can

Re: [Dspace-tech] [RFC] Incorrect Java Vendor in DSpace control panel

2013-08-15 Thread Alan Orth
Ok, I've created a Jira Bug[0] and submitted a patch[1]. Cheers, Alan [0] https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-1629 [1] https://github.com/alanorth/DSpace/commit/fba6c5b9771f04374daf10e7b20c288e85b6f715 On 08/15/2013 11:22 AM, Alan Orth wrote: Hi, I've just realized that DSpace tries

[Dspace-tech] Musings on metadata

2013-07-18 Thread Alan Orth
should use one over the other? Cheers, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup

Re: [Dspace-tech] Musings on metadata

2013-07-18 Thread Alan Orth
and may offer better advice. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Helix, Perhaps it was a poor example. As a sysadmin

Re: [Dspace-tech] Musings on metadata

2013-07-18 Thread Alan Orth
Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because

Re: [Dspace-tech] LDAP permssion

2013-06-20 Thread Alan Orth
___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always

Re: [Dspace-tech] Questions on upgrading from 1.5 to 3.1 and maintaining a live and test instance

2013-06-20 Thread Alan Orth
/sfu/windows-dev2dev ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-26 Thread Alan Orth
? Cheers, Alan On 05/25/2013 01:58 PM, helix84 wrote: On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for doing that for me. I'll make sure to keep an eye on DS-1561. I maked you as the reporter and added the issue to your watchlist, so you will receive any

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-26 Thread Alan Orth
can unearth any corner cases and or side effects. Cheers, Alan On 05/26/2013 04:26 PM, helix84 wrote: On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: I will comment on the Jira bug. I'm not sure how DSpace releases go, but is this type of fix a candidate for 3.1.x

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-26 Thread Alan Orth
, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Helix, I hear you about changing past behavior, but something to consider: The move to build.properties and Maven filtering broke the setup we've been using since DSpace 1.5! This may merit

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-25 Thread Alan Orth
, or look into using authenticated SMTP. Alan On 05/23/2013 12:54 PM, Alan Orth wrote: Helix, Correct; if I comment out the mail.server.username and mail.server.password in the generated / final dspace.cfg sending email works. Also, I was mistaken before regarding `dspace test-email

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-25 Thread Alan Orth
/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-23 Thread Alan Orth
not useful to us. Thanks, Alan On 05/21/2013 04:45 PM, Alan Orth wrote: Ok, I've just reverted to our all in one dspace.cfg and emails work fine. Sounds like there are some issues with my build.properties (dev.properties and production.properties)... Alan On 05/21/2013 03:32 PM, helix84 wrote

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-23 Thread Alan Orth
comment out mail.server.username and mail.server.password, it works, but if you leave them empty, it doesn't work (presumably because it sends empty values). On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: If I comment out the mail.* settings in my production.properties

[Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-21 Thread Alan Orth
/89e508170e4878ec4f88f43a01b5ebf86a7b82de/gistfile1.txt -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-21 Thread Alan Orth
between when the email last worked and now? Also attach your mail.* properties from dspace.cfg. We're looking for an inconspicuous problem here. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-21 Thread Alan Orth
Ok, I've just reverted to our all in one dspace.cfg and emails work fine. Sounds like there are some issues with my build.properties (dev.properties and production.properties)... Alan On 05/21/2013 03:32 PM, helix84 wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Dspace-tech] Aggressive XMLUI cache

2013-05-07 Thread Alan Orth
/ www.atmire.com http://atmire.com/website/?q=servicesutm_source=emailfooterutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=braml On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, So for now I *seem* to have found a work around: setting

Re: [Dspace-tech] Aggressive XMLUI cache

2013-04-20 Thread Alan Orth
quite a bit, browsing a number of other themes, etc, and still no cache corruption persisting across this particular theme which was so often affected before. Fingers crossed! [1] https://gist.github.com/alanorth/5426188 On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Dspace-tech] Export archive restricted?

2013-04-19 Thread Alan Orth
for that particular community/collection? Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer

[Dspace-tech] Aggressive XMLUI cache

2013-04-19 Thread Alan Orth
prohibited via mod_headers in our httpd reverse proxy, so I'm positive it's not a browser issue. Can anyone shed insight on this? Adios, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has

Re: [Dspace-tech] Export archive restricted?

2013-04-17 Thread Alan Orth
Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my

Re: [Dspace-tech] Export archive restricted?

2013-04-17 Thread Alan Orth
Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure

[Dspace-tech] Export archive restricted?

2013-04-16 Thread Alan Orth
I've presumably misconfigured? helix84? ;) Thanks! -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne

[Dspace-tech] Strange issue with DSpace 3.0

2013-03-11 Thread Alan Orth
' parameter is required for list items. Full Java stack trace is here: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=9Mu5EQUU Anyone have an idea what's wrong? My platform is Debian 6, Sun Java 6 1.6.0_18, Tomcat 6. Cheers, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always

Re: [Dspace-tech] Strange issue with DSpace 3.0

2013-03-11 Thread Alan Orth
, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke In heaven all the interesting people are missing. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Re: [Dspace-tech] Strange issue with DSpace 3.0

2013-03-11 Thread Alan Orth
PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Helix, Ah, so you're right. For the record, I had been comparing our configs to those in the dspace-3.0 release in preparation for upgrading from 1.8. I pulled over some new syntax changes, including what I thought were defaults in the new config

Re: [Dspace-tech] Private config includes?

2013-02-25 Thread Alan Orth
, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: We currently use git to manage our development / production DSpace instances. Because our github repository is public we don't keep our configs under version control (to protect database passwords, etc). This is a bit of a kludge

[Dspace-tech] XMLUI caching, recommended mod_expires settings?

2013-01-29 Thread Alan Orth
ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault A1 /IfModule I'm wondering if Access +1 second is a bit overzealous. Perhaps we should be using the modification time of the file (CSS or GIF, for example). What are you guys using? Thanks! -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http

Re: [Dspace-tech] next button for collections view?

2012-06-15 Thread Alan Orth
to choose a view from the menu: By Issue Date, Titles, Authors... These views are paginable and display all the results. Regards, ~~helix84 -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my

[Dspace-tech] next button for collections view?

2012-06-12 Thread Alan Orth
: Community view, showing a large collection: http://i.imgur.com/tArtv.png Inside the collection:http://i.imgur.com/OZclO.png We're using XMLUI. Am I missing some simple config option, or do we need to add something to our theme template? Thanks, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http

[Dspace-tech] git workflow with DSpace 1.8

2012-06-08 Thread Alan Orth
. :) How are other people handling this? -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup

Re: [Dspace-tech] git workflow with DSpace 1.8

2012-06-08 Thread Alan Orth
:44 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Helix, Yeah, I could do that. Maybe something something like dev_modules and prod_modules. I wonder how hard it would be to add an option ant's build script which allowed for the specification of a custom modules location. Maybe something like

[Dspace-tech] Log file size and management

2012-04-19 Thread Alan Orth
with these logs? Offline archival? Also, while dspace.log.* are potentially useful if you have to go back and rerun legacy statistics, I'm not sure what cocoon logs are useful for...? Adios, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my

Re: [Dspace-tech] Log file size and management

2012-04-19 Thread Alan Orth
. It's very configurable. Regards, ~~helix84 -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup

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