Re: [Dspace-tech] Web Uploader File Sizes

2015-02-17 Thread Matthew Sherman
as whether there are any errors reported in your log files (under [dspace.dir]/log/dspace.log.[date]). Good luck, Tim On 2/13/2015 12:11 PM, Matthew Sherman wrote: Hi all, I want to get some insight from the group on optimum file sizes for uploading the web front-end? I ask as we

[Dspace-tech] Web Uploader File Sizes

2015-02-13 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hi all, I want to get some insight from the group on optimum file sizes for uploading the web front-end? I ask as we are having one of our students digitize legacy theses and the files get decently sizable with a large theses. As such some of these have failed to properly upload. So any

[Dspace-tech] Change to input-form.xsl Oddity

2014-12-16 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hello, I was wondering if anyone else has run into this issue. We made a small customization our input-forms.xsl file for two collections. We uploaded the file in our test environment and it worked great. The changes loaded right away with no need for a restart. Then we adapted it for our

[Dspace-tech] Authorization Change Troubles

2014-10-15 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hello all, I am hoping someone can help me. I recently changed the permissions for a few collections in our DSpace4 instance from anonymous access to login access to make copyright corrections to a bunch of records. Now that I have finished I am attempting to return it to anonymous access but

Re: [Dspace-tech] Authorization Change Troubles

2014-10-15 Thread Matthew Sherman
4758 On 15 October 2014 17:15, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am hoping someone can help me. I recently changed the permissions for a few collections in our DSpace4 instance from anonymous access to login access to make copyright corrections to a bunch

Re: [Dspace-tech] harvester.handleMetadataField on oai.cfg

2014-09-02 Thread Matthew Sherman
dc.identifier typically is the field DSpace automatically stored the URL for the records in. dc.identifier.uri: http://dspacetest.bridgeport.edu/xmlui/handle/123456789/978 -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that

[Dspace-tech] DSpace 4 Advanced Search

2014-07-21 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hi all, I have question I was hoping the group could answer, is there a guide out there for how to use the advanced search functions in DSpace 4? We are in the midst of upgrading from 1.8 to 4 and when I was writing up some basic how to documentation for our researchers I noticed that advanced

[Dspace-tech] DSpace 4 XMLUI Customization Question

2014-06-28 Thread Matthew Sherman
We currently are playing around with DSpace 4 in our test environment in preparation to upgrade on our production server and I was running into a little confusion with the customization. While the vast majority of the modifications I need to make I know which CSS, XSL, or XML file to edit, I am

[Dspace-tech] Extracting Provenance Data

2014-05-15 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone happens to know how to extract a copy of the Provenance metadata from a DSpace Community? I am trying to identify some records a particular user submitted and I was hoping I could pull the provenance metadata and sort by that, but apparently that does not come

[Dspace-tech] Migrating Records Between DSpace Instances

2014-05-10 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hi everyone, I was hoping some one can help me or point me to a decent bit of documentation for something I am working on. We are starting a DSpace upgrade from 1.8 to 4 and so to prepare we have installed 4 on our test server. It is all installed and running at this point, but I am not

[Dspace-tech] Best OS for DSpace

2014-04-02 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hello DSpace folks, I have a question that I was hoping the community can weigh in on. We are looking to upgrade our DSpace instance over the summer from 1.8 to 4 and in so doing we want to make sure we are using the best core setup we can have. As such we are trying to figure which is the best

[Dspace-tech] Java Heap Space Problems

2014-03-25 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hi all, I was hoping some one can give some insight to a problem we are having. We are running DSpace 1.8 and every couple of weeks we end up having to reboot the Tomcat because it crashes due to a Java heap space error. We have been trying to correct it since the beginning of the year by

Re: [Dspace-tech] Java Heap Space Problems

2014-03-25 Thread Matthew Sherman
at 2:50 PM, Bill Tantzen wile...@gmail.com wrote: Matt, Do you regularly optimize your solr indexes? Cheers! Bill On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I was hoping some one can give some insight to a problem we are having. We are running

[Dspace-tech] How Do Custom Fields Effect OAI Harvesting?

2014-02-11 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hello all, I wanted to get some insight from the DSpace community. The institution I work for uses the Primo discovery system and will soon be using Primo Central. One thing Central can do for us is provide discovery access to our repository records though a Primo search, but it obtains the

Re: [Dspace-tech] How Do Custom Fields Effect OAI Harvesting?

2014-02-11 Thread Matthew Sherman
Ok, so the OAI harvest comes from an XSL file within our instance of DSpace, is that correct? On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:14 AM, helix84 heli...@centrum.sk wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: We are running 1.8. I did not create them

Re: [Dspace-tech] How Do Custom Fields Effect OAI Harvesting?

2014-02-11 Thread Matthew Sherman
Thanks, this helps a lot. I will need to look into it more to make sure I fully understand what is going on, but this gives me a solid base to work off of. On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:23 AM, helix84 heli...@centrum.sk wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher

[Dspace-tech] Exported Community Metadata Blank

2014-01-30 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hello, I am hoping someone can help me figure out an oddity I am running into. I am trying to check on some metadata fields in our repository so I exported the metadata for the largest community we have. Yet, when I open the CSV that I exported it is blank, no data at all was exported. If I

Re: [Dspace-tech] Exported Community Metadata Blank

2014-01-30 Thread Matthew Sherman
We are using 1.8. When I say blank I mean when I open it in Excel there is nothing in any cell. In fact the file is listed at 0KB, which actually prevents me from attaching it to this e-mail since gmail refuses to let you attach a file that is less than 1 KB. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:31 AM,

Re: [Dspace-tech] Exported Community Metadata Blank

2014-01-30 Thread Matthew Sherman
Thanks for the help, with our IT guy we found out it was a java memory heap error so we were able to fix it. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:41 AM, helix84 heli...@centrum.sk wrote: OK, that information helps. What does dspace.log say? Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List

[Dspace-tech] Making Changes to User Accounts

2014-01-24 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hello, I am hoping someone can give me some insights on an issue we are hoping to head off. Over the summer our University changed e-mail servers and now students have a different e-mail address than they did last year. The problem is DSpace does not reflect this change in the user accounts

Re: [Dspace-tech] Making Changes to User Accounts

2014-01-24 Thread Matthew Sherman
going from old to new; i.e., f(old) = new. If so, can use this method on the e-mail field of the eperson table. That should do it. Bill Ingram University of Illinois Urbana, IL 61801 217-333-4648 wingr...@illinois.edu *From:* Matthew Sherman [mailto:matt.r.sher...@gmail.com] *Sent

Re: [Dspace-tech] Making Changes to User Accounts

2014-01-24 Thread Matthew Sherman
Urbana, IL 61801 217-333-4648 wingr...@illinois.edu *From:* Matthew Sherman [mailto:matt.r.sher...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, January 24, 2014 11:16 AM *To:* Ingram, William A *Cc:* dspace-tech *Subject:* Re: [Dspace-tech] Making Changes to User Accounts Is there a way to export

Re: [Dspace-tech] Making Changes to User Accounts

2014-01-24 Thread Matthew Sherman
a much harder problem. Bill Ingram University of Illinois Urbana, IL 61801 217-333-4648 wingr...@illinois.edu *From:* Hilton Gibson [mailto:hilton.gib...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, January 24, 2014 11:38 AM *To:* Ingram, William A *Cc:* Matthew Sherman; dspace-tech *Subject:* Re

[Dspace-tech] Question About Modifying DSpace Submission Forms

2014-01-10 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hello all, I am trying figure out if something is possible with the submission forms. I know you just edit the XML to add new fields for metadata population, but I was wondering if it was possible to have another optional file submission field? I ask since where I work we also like to keep track

[Dspace-tech] Quick Question About CSV Import

2013-11-27 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hello, I had a quick question about importing via CSV. I want to add a few records that have links but not files associated with them and I know you can do that by adding the metadata to a CSV. The one thing I do not know is do I leave the id field blank or is there a character I need to put in

Re: [Dspace-tech] Quick Question About CSV Import

2013-11-27 Thread Matthew Sherman
Thanks, that helps a lot. On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:09 AM, helix84 heli...@centrum.sk wrote: Hi Matt, the character you need to put in the id column to create a new record is +. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette

[Dspace-tech] Modifying the Submission Form

2013-10-28 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hello, I am trying to find out how to go about modifying the submission for to include more fields. Right now to include all of the information we want on certain items we have to do some editing of the metadata after submission, as well as uploading permissions documentation afterwards. It

Re: [Dspace-tech] Modifying the Submission Form

2013-10-28 Thread Matthew Sherman
. Cheers hg On 28 October 2013 16:12, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I am trying to find out how to go about modifying the submission for to include more fields. Right now to include all of the information we want on certain items we have to do some editing

[Dspace-tech] Batch Moving All Items in a Collection

2013-10-14 Thread Matthew Sherman
I am wondering if there is a way to batch move items from one collection to another. We are do a major restructuring of our repository and are looking for a way to move items rather than having to re upload everything. Any suggestions would massively help. Thanks for your time and advice. Matt

Re: [Dspace-tech] Batch Moving All Items in a Collection

2013-10-14 Thread Matthew Sherman
manual and the wiki Thanks Emilio El 14/10/2013 16:04, Matthew Sherman escribió: I am wondering if there is a way to batch move items from one collection to another. We are do a major restructuring of our repository and are looking for a way to move items rather than having to re upload

Re: [Dspace-tech] Batch Moving All Items in a Collection

2013-10-14 Thread Matthew Sherman
Thanks for the input everyone. I was successful using the method of changing the handle value in the csv. On Oct 14, 2013 5:29 PM, Keir Vaughan-Taylor k...@usyd.edu.au wrote: Just a be careful note I usually execute these commands manually. The 62310 count is the sum of items in each

[Dspace-tech] XSL Examples

2013-09-21 Thread Matthew Sherman
I was wondering if anyone had any examples of their custom xsl files they could share. We are looking to customize our xsl to display some more of the metadata fields in the public record. I looked at the template, which is a good starting spot, but I really want to see some working files to

[Dspace-tech] Using Curation Tools

2013-09-13 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hello, Earlier in the week I had been asking about the link checker, as we ran it but were getting the following result: The task was completed successfully. STATUS: Fail, RESULT: Item: 123456789/473 - https://repository.bridgeport.edu/xmlui/handle/123456789/473 = 0 - FAILED Now we are

Re: [Dspace-tech] Using Curation Tools

2013-09-13 Thread Matthew Sherman
. Can you restrict your tests to the former and confirm? Thanks, Richard R (BTW, it would be simple to extend the behavior to SSL use cases) On Sep 13, 2013, at 9:01 AM, Matthew Sherman wrote: Hello, Earlier in the week I had been asking about the link checker, as we ran

Re: [Dspace-tech] Using Curation Tools

2013-09-13 Thread Matthew Sherman
Yet when I tested this by changing the links to https for some other items it still failed. Also it is stopping at one item and not showing us so we do not know if it is checking just one thing, or the whole collection. On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher

[Dspace-tech] DSpace Link Checker Error

2013-09-10 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hello, We were trying to run the link checker that comes with DSpace 1.8 today, but when we ran the process on the whole collection (handle /0), we received this message: Task: Check Links in Metadata The task was completed successfully. STATUS: Fail, RESULT: Nothing to do for this DSpace

[Dspace-tech] DSpace Broken Link Question

2013-08-28 Thread Matthew Sherman
Hello DSpace folks, I had a DSpace related question I was hoping to get an answer for. I just started my new job as the Digital Content Librarian for the University of Bridgeport and one of my main tasks in dealing with the institutional repository. This repository apparently was migrated into