[Dspace-tech] OAI-PMH

2014-02-25 Thread Jizba, Richard
Here's a very ignorant question: When we upgraded to 3.2, OAI-PHM was turned on. What does this mean for our site? Does this open us up even more than we already are to web search engines or discovery tools? How do applications discover and harvest our collections? I ask because we have a

[Dspace-tech] Cleanup error

2011-05-25 Thread Jizba, Richard
Has anyone seen this before (Oracle): $dspace cleanup -v - Deleting bitstream information (ID: 6494) - Deleting bitstream record from database (ID: 6494) Error: ORA-02292: integrity constraint (DSPACE15.SYS_C008778) violated - child record found If so, what did you do? Richard Jizba

[Dspace-tech] Filter-media for Word docx

2011-05-24 Thread Jizba, Richard
Hello, In filter-media the Word Text Extractor does not process docx, but only doc files. Is this expected behavior or do I have a problem? In either case, what is the solution to processing docx files in filter-media. Richard Jizba Creighton University

[Dspace-tech] Missing search this community/recent submissions

2011-04-25 Thread Jizba, Richard
Hello, We are testing 1.7.1 and have noticed the following are missing from our sub-community collection pages: The Search within this community and its collections section. The Recent Submissions Our dspace.cfg is configured appropriately to display recent submissions. Any help

[Dspace-tech] New feature suggestion.

2011-02-25 Thread Jizba, Richard
I saw a comment a few messages back asking about the same issue, so let me add my comments support: When we create custom themes for a subcommunity or collection, there are two things we find very cumbersome to do and I would like to suggest that the following two things be configurable

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.7 problem

2011-02-25 Thread Jizba, Richard
[mailto:r...@ua.es] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 9:25 AM To: Jizba, Richard Subject: DSpace 1.7 problem Hi, Richard, I've just read your recent messages at dspace-tech list about some problems with DSpace 1.7+Oracle. Did you fixed that? I'm having the same kind of errors when trying

[Dspace-tech] More info re index-init fails.

2011-02-10 Thread Jizba, Richard
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[Dspace-tech] index-init fails - help!

2011-02-09 Thread Jizba, Richard
We are upgrading from 1.6.2 to 1.7.0. Things went well until we ran index-init. (we are using Oracle) Here's the error message: [dspace@DSpace bin]$ dspace index-init Started: 1297273130922 Ended: 1297273137465 Elapsed time: 6 secs (6543 msecs) Exception: Value for item_id is not

[Dspace-tech] More re Porter Stem Filter

2011-02-02 Thread Jizba, Richard
Tim, Thanks for the response. The first option isn't an option for because we need to search for numbers. I did see something like the second option, which said to basically comment out the PorterStemFilter. So my question is, can I eliminate that level of stemming all together. This is what I

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

2011-02-02 Thread Jizba, Richard
Tim, I want to report that we successfully turned off stemming on our test server by commenting out line that calls the Porter Stemming Filter. Thanks for your help! I can now search for well, wells, wellness specifically or get them all (and then some) with well*, or just search (well OR wells)

[Dspace-tech] I need to turn stemming off in Lucene asap.

2011-02-01 Thread Jizba, Richard
The default stemming algorithm is so heavy handed that it has really created problems for us and thinking about it over night I realized that there are a number of other likely problems our users haven't encountered but will soon. I need a fairly complete list of steps for disabling stemming.

[Dspace-tech] Urgent: question about search behavior

2011-01-31 Thread Jizba, Richard
I have faculty and staff in our medical education department who want an explanation of why their search for wellness seems to be picking up records that do not contain the word anywhere in the full-text or metadata. All they are seeing is the possibility that the search is also retrieving just

[Dspace-tech] Some i18n text resists modification via theme.

2010-12-09 Thread Jizba, Richard
Hello, We have been using the following approach to modify the text displayed as needed via the 'theme-name'.xsl file: xsl:template match=i18n:text xsl:choose xsl:when test=text()='xmlui.ArtifactBrowser.Navigation.browse_title'

[Dspace-tech] PowerPoint Text Extractor

2010-09-29 Thread Jizba, Richard
Hello, Are there plans to add a PPT text extractor to DSpace? In the meantime, can some provide information on how to implement one? Thanks, Richard Jizba Creighton University. -- Start uncovering the many

[Dspace-tech] Need a quick fix for handle server

2010-08-02 Thread Jizba, Richard
Hello, I just encountered the handle server error that is part of 1.6.1. Is there a way to manually start the handle server and get around the error? I have to coordinate our upgrade to 1.6.2 with our IT department and would like to get the handle server running asap. Richard Jizba Creighton

[Dspace-tech] DSpace and large video files

2010-06-15 Thread Jizba, Richard
Hello, I have been asked about using DSpace to manage a collection of large video files. The people like all the functionality DSpace provides for Collection Administration, but I'm not sure how it would handle such a collection. I know there has been discussion of this in the past, but is there

[Dspace-tech] Collection Administrators can not ADD bitstreams to new batch imported items.

2010-06-14 Thread Jizba, Richard
Hello, In version 1.6.1 we created a sub-community and a collection in that sub-community. The same persons group were given Administrative rights to the sub-community and collection. Next we used the batch metadata load to create new records in the collection (therefore these have no attached

[Dspace-tech] Embargo error on Approval

2010-05-05 Thread Jizba, Richard
Hello, We we try to approve an item that has been submitted with an embargo date (in dc.embargo.liftdate) we receive the following error: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.dspace.embargo.EmbargoManager.getEmbargoDate(EmbargoManager.java:166 ) Can anyone suggest how to resolve this?

[Dspace-tech] Handles are not generated for items (but are for collections)

2010-03-09 Thread Jizba, Richard
Hello, Problem: When we submit items to a collection, nothing appears when we click on submissions and often we get an error: java.lang.NullPointerException. When I go into the Items function and search for something by just putting in a 1 or 2 or 3 I do see the items we have submitted, but

[Dspace-tech] Error when trying to view submissions

2010-03-08 Thread Jizba, Richard
Hello, We are setting up a dspace server (for testing) and have run into a problem. We are using 1.5.2 and postgres. We can create a collection. We can submit an item to a collection, but whenever we try to look at submissions in order to approve them we get the An error has occured

[Dspace-tech] Collection Administrators

2010-01-19 Thread Jizba, Richard
Hello, We are running 1.5.2 using Manakin. I have set up a collection and created a group. I have assigned two people to the group and also assigned the group the collection administration role. The two users in the collection administrator group can do what I would expect, except for the

[Dspace-tech] ERROR filtering

2009-12-16 Thread Jizba, Richard
Hello, I am getting the following error when I run filter-media: ERROR filtering, skipping bitstream: http://dspace.creighton.edu/xmlui/handle/10504/3893 File Size: 1538434 Checksum: 767a81ba2ab5a87962123f5ee651810e (MD5) java.lang.NullPointerException I think this is

Re: [Dspace-tech] incredibly shrinking text

2009-11-19 Thread Jizba, Richard
I see that problem too. But it doesn't always happen, and I think it only happens when someone is logged in and using an input form. I've been meaning to play around with the ie style sheet (style-ie.css). Unfortunately, I won't get to it soon, but I will post what I find if no one else has.

[Dspace-tech] Default to Advanced Search

2009-11-02 Thread Jizba, Richard
Hello, Is it possible to change the default simple search to Advanced Search. I am using 1.5 and Manakin and want to implement this in theme. (I want the the Advanced Search to display as the default on the sub-community and collections pages which are associated with that theme.) Richard Jizba

[Dspace-tech] How do I override a message key in a theme?

2009-10-07 Thread Jizba, Richard
Hello, Within a theme, is there a way to override a message key from messages.xml For example, what if I want to change this: message key=xmlui.ArtifactBrowser.AdvancedSearch.type_titleTitle/message To this: message key=xmlui.ArtifactBrowser.AdvancedSearch.type_titleRecipient/message

Re: [Dspace-tech] How do I override a message key in a theme?

2009-10-07 Thread Jizba, Richard
David, Thank you. This worked. Richard -Original Message- From: Walker, David [mailto:dwal...@calstate.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:54 AM To: Jizba, Richard; dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: How do I override a message key in a theme? Hi Richard, Try

[Dspace-tech] 'Next Record' / 'Previous Record'

2009-10-06 Thread Jizba, Richard
Hello, In the 'simple item record' display, is there an option to add next record and previous record function so that you don't have to go back to the search or browse listing and click on the next record in the list? Richard Jizba Creighton University Omaha, Nebraska

[Dspace-tech] Changing the text for Advanced Search type options (manakin)

2009-10-05 Thread Jizba, Richard
Hello, Can someone tell me how to change the text/labels on the Advanced Search - Search Type options for a particular collection or community? This community does have its own theme. I want to change the text, not the search itself. Example: I want to keep a title search but change the label