Re: [Dspace-tech] Adding metadata automatically to a user submitted item

2010-07-15 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
In Dspace 1.5.1, when you create a new collection, in the Describe step you check a box that says, New submissions will have some metadata already filled out with defaults. Another screen will display that will allow you to enter Default Item Metadata. Whenever a new submission is started in

Re: [Dspace-tech] java.lang.outOfMemory error trying to run index-init

2010-06-23 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Thanks for your time Richard! Sue From: Richard Rodgers [mailto:rrodg...@mit.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 10:40 AM To: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net; Smail, James W. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY

Re: [Dspace-tech] java.lang.outOfMemory error trying to run index-init

2010-06-21 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
wondering what we lost, if anything, in our search results or if this should even be a concern for us. Any suggestions/advise would be appreciated! Thanks, Sue From: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] [mailto:susan.m.thorn...@nasa.gov] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010

[Dspace-tech] Adding another dspace.log file to DSpace 1.5.1?

2010-06-21 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
We have Google crawling our DSpace site daily and it really fills up our DSpace .log files. We would like to implement a second dspace.log file (google.log?) in DSpace 1.5.1 and would like to know if this is an easy thing to accomplish. Has anyone done this? Also we'd like to know where to

Re: [Dspace-tech] java.lang.outOfMemory error trying to run index-init

2010-06-21 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
[mailto:rrodg...@mit.edu] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 1:50 PM To: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net; William L Hays Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] java.lang.outOfMemory error trying to run index-init Hi Sue: I don't have any immediate help

[Dspace-tech] java.lang.outOfMemory error trying to run index-init

2010-06-19 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
We have a large repository, currently with 140,376 Items. Due to user complaints about search results, we recently turned off stemming in our DSpace 1.5.1 search by commenting out the following line in DSAnalyzer.java: result = new PorterStemFilter(result); Of course then we had to run

Re: [Dspace-tech] mixing metadata

2010-06-08 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Can you have mixed metadata from different schemas in a single DSpace item? From: Keith Michael Pickett [mailto:kmpic...@uno.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 9:08 AM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] mixing metadata Yes, you can apply a different metadata schema

Re: [Dspace-tech] Multiple large files loaded onto one record - issues with the sort and open

2010-06-04 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi Renata, See my comments below: Sue Sue Walker-Thornton NASA Langley Research Center Integrated Library Systems Developer, Application Database Administrator ConITS Contract ~ NCI Information Systems, Inc. 130 Research Drive Hampton, VA 23666 Office: (757) 224-4074 ~ Mobile: (757)

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace Items Missing / index-update error

2010-06-04 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
If you're trying to find Context.java, in 1.5.1 it's at: /dspace-1.5.1-src-release/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/core/Context.java From: bryce ray [mailto:bryceray1...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 1:59 PM To: Mark Diggory; dietz...@osu.edu; Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON

[Dspace-tech] Problem with video streaming in DSpace 1.5.1

2010-06-03 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi, I've been working on testing video streaming in one of our DSpace instances today and found this solution posted by Stewart Lewis: http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2009/05/27/easy-pseudo-video-streaming-for-dspace-repositories/ I've followed all the instructions, but the video does not

Re: [Dspace-tech] Adding E-person to workflow AFTER item submission

2010-05-24 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall that this is the way DSpace was designed to work - basically that ALLOW access for a new Eperson is *not* retroactive to Items that were previously in the repository. I believe you can correct this situation by using the Advanced/Item

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.6.1 pre-release is available for, testing

2010-05-24 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Mark, Are you saying that we shouldn't skip a release, for instance if we are running version 1.5.1, we should first upgrade to 1.5.2 or can we go straight from 1.5.1 to 1.6? Thanks, Sue From: mdigg...@atmire.com [mailto:mdigg...@atmire.com] Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 4:39 PM To: Tonny

Re: [Dspace-tech] Problem with write.lock file in /dspace/search - DSpace 1.5.1

2010-05-21 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
the error and I did get the error email this time. Perhaps this should be included in a future release? Sue From: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] [mailto:susan.m.thorn...@nasa.gov] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 5:30 PM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject

Re: [Dspace-tech] Problem with write.lock file in /dspace/search in DSpace 1.5.1

2010-05-21 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] [mailto:susan.m.thorn...@nasa.gov] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 5:30 PM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Dspace-tech] Problem with write.lock file in /dspace/search - DSpace 1.5.1 Hello, I updated a Collection description in one

[Dspace-tech] Problem with write.lock file in /dspace/search - DSpace 1.5.1

2010-05-20 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hello, I updated a Collection description in one of our DSpace instances, a few times this morning. Each time I noticed that it took awhile for the update to complete. I finally looked in the log and saw errors referring to write.lock in /dspace/search. I looked in the /dspace/search

Re: [Dspace-tech] Email notifications for internal server errors in newer versions

2010-05-20 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
No, it didn't go away. You should get an email when an internal error occurs. Have you checked your server to make sure your emails are being released? We had a situation recently where that happened. Also, have you checked the dspace.log file(s) for any error messages that may be occurring

[Dspace-tech] How does the bitstream_format_id get set in a DSpace 1.5.1 import?

2010-05-06 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
I just noticed in one of our DSpace instances that all of the rows in the bitstream table have column bitstream_format_id set to 1 - Unknown. All the documents are either .pdf files or their equivalent .pdf.txt files (from filter-media). The strange thing is that all the .pdf files are

Re: [Dspace-tech] How does the bitstream_format_id get set in a DSpace 1.5.1 import?

2010-05-06 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net; Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] How does the bitstream_format_id get set in a DSpace 1.5.1 import? Sue, A few comments inline... On 5/6/2010 11:44 AM, Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702

Re: [Dspace-tech] Media filtering problem - filtering was unsuccessful

2010-05-03 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
We had the same problems and finally replaced the use of PDFBox to filter .pdf files with XPDF2Text. Our only documents that won't filter now are truly corrupt files. Plus XPDF2Text is 10 times as fast as PDFBox. Take a look at this:

[Dspace-tech] DSpace 2.0 projected release date?

2010-04-27 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi, Can anyone tell me what the status of DSpace 2.0 is? I poked around a bit, but didn't see anything about a projected release date. Is there one? Are there solid plans for a DSpace 1.6.1 or any release versions between 1.6.x and 2.0? Thanks, Sue Sue Walker-Thornton NASA Langley

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 2.0 projected release date?

2010-04-27 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Thanks Peter. That’s just what I needed! Best regards, Sue From: pdiet...@gmail.com [mailto:pdiet...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Peter Dietz Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:51 PM To: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject

Re: [Dspace-tech] Updating several collection authorizations policies in one step.

2010-04-20 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
There is an option on the Administrator menu called Authorization. The first 3 items displayed after clicking on this allow you to maintain authorization policies for Communities, Collections, and Items, and the 4th option allows you to do wildcard additions to and clearing of authorization

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

2010-04-06 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi Jason, I've gotten this error before when implementing a new instance of DSpace or upgrading to a new version. I remember spending quite a bit of time troubleshooting the problem too, and I still really don't understand how what I did got it to work, but it's something you can try.

Re: [Dspace-tech] Multiple Instances of Dspace on one server

2010-04-06 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
We are successfully running 2 separate instances of DSpace 1.5.1 on the same server. Our configuration is something like this: Instance 1: Instance 2: dspace.dir /dspace /dspace-2

[Dspace-tech] How to assign authorization policy(s) that allow a user to replace a document for an Item in DSpace 1.5.1

2010-03-29 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi, I need to know how to correctly define authorization policies that will allow a User in DSpace 1.5.1 to replace a document for an Item? I've studied the documentation for authorization and it doesn't really say. Here's the scenario: A User has previously added an Item to the

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

2010-03-11 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi, We are in the process of implementing a new secure DSpace instance where the default access has to be no-access for anonymous users. During the Define Collection process, despite the fact that I am NOT checking the box that says New items should be publicly readable, the following

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

2010-03-11 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Great! Thanks Graham! Sue From: Graham Triggs [mailto:grahamtri...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:57 PM To: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] Cc: DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Problem

Re: [Dspace-tech] Refworks on Dspace

2010-03-04 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hello, Can you give a brief description of what the patch does? Thanks, Sue Sue Walker-Thornton ConITS Contract NASA Langley Research Center Integrated Library Systems ~ Developer/DBA 130 Research Drive Hampton, VA 23666 Office: (757) 224-4074 Fax:(757) 224-4001 Mobile: (757) 506-9903

Re: [Dspace-tech] Internal system error

2010-03-04 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi, Looks like maybe the application is requiring that a title be entered, and that the title is null...? Hope this helps, Sue Sue Walker-Thornton ConITS Contract NASA Langley Research Center Integrated Library Systems ~ Developer/DBA 130 Research Drive Hampton, VA 23666 Office: (757)

Re: [Dspace-tech] batch import not loading itmes

2010-03-04 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Try routing the output from ItemImport to a file and checking the file contents after the job ends. (see below) Hope this helps, Sue Sue Walker-Thornton ConITS Contract NASA Langley Research Center Integrated Library Systems ~ Developer/DBA 130 Research Drive Hampton, VA 23666 Office: (757)

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace database connection error

2010-03-04 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi, I tried replying to your email yesterday, but it bounced saying the email address was invalid? Anyway, you need to edit your pg_hba.conf file in your postgresql installation and entering a line that allows (trust) your ip address direct access to the database via PGAdminIII. Here

Re: [Dspace-tech] Fwd: error in ant fresh_install in Dspace installation

2010-03-01 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Sounds like you need to correct your db.password configuration for the dspace database, in dspace.cfg. # Database username and password db.username = dspace db.password = yourpassword Hope this helps! Sue From: SANDEEP BHAVSAR [mailto:sandeep.bhav...@gmail.com]

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

2010-03-01 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi, I was finally able to significantly speed up our online item ingest process by suppressing the Index pruning on every Item update. After setting the .log level to DEBUG and tracing the process though, I noticed it was doing a LOT of updates. This is where it was really slowing down

Re: [Dspace-tech] ClassNotFoundException

2010-02-26 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi Anita, Make sure you have environment variables $JAVA_HOME, $PATH, and $CLASSPATH set correctly. Hope this helps! Sue From: Anita P [mailto:digla...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 1:05 PM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [Dspace-tech] Upgrading from DSpace 1.4.2 to DSpace 1.5.2

2010-02-09 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi, Do you have your log level set to DEBUG? If so, try putting it back to INFO. It looks like it's failing in the turnOffAuthorisationSystem method when it's trying to write to the log. Hopefully by putting your log level to INFO will prevent that code from being executed and will let

Re: [Dspace-tech] Shifting of dspace from one server to server

2010-02-09 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi Mohit, We've done quite a bit of this in the past few months and have found that the easiest way to move/copy a dspace instance from one machine to the other is: 1. Copy/ftp both your /dspace and /dspace-source directories to the new server. 2. Verify that all your software is

[Dspace-tech] Sloooow submission process in DSpace 1.5.1

2010-02-04 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hello, We have been noticing recently that, as our repository grows in size (we currently have approx. 125,000 Items and adding more each week), our online submission process is getting slower and slower and slower. It's gotten so bad that, even if I'm only trying to add more authors to

Re: [Dspace-tech] Collection Administrators

2010-01-20 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi Richard, This is straight from the (DSpace 1.5.x) documentation, although I'm not sure it answers your question: i. Collection Administrators can: 1. edit Collection description 2. edit Submitters

Re: [Dspace-tech] Display order of authors doesn't match submission order

2010-01-14 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi Mark, Yes, it is column place in table metadatavalue that controls the order of things like lists of authors, however I don't know exactly where/when place is populated when new records are submitted to DSpace. On a related note, we have long wanted to change the display of

Re: [Dspace-tech] Can you have different metadata field labels for the same metadata field, in different collections?

2010-01-13 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
is the mind-killer. I will permit it to pass over me and through me... --Litany against fear On Nov 5, 2009, at 12:07 PM, Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] wrote: Does anyone know whether it's possible in DSpace 1.5.1 to have different labels for the same

Re: [Dspace-tech] Can you have different metadata field labels for the same metadata field, in different collections?

2010-01-13 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Sorry - I made a typo - all the references to collection1 in my dspace.cfg parameters should say collection2. Sue From: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] [mailto:susan.m.thorn...@nasa.gov] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:13

Re: [Dspace-tech] Problem with authorization error display in DSpace 1.5.1 - SOLVED

2010-01-08 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
From: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] [mailto:susan.m.thorn...@nasa.gov] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 12:50 PM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Dspace-tech] Problem with authorization error display in DSpace 1.5.1 In a DSpace instance where we

[Dspace-tech] Problem with authorization error display in DSpace 1.5.1

2010-01-05 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
In a DSpace instance where we have some secure collections that are only viewable by certain epersongroups, we are not getting the correct message when a User clicks on an item they do *not* have access to. Instead of getting the authorize.jsp screen, we are getting the internal.jsp screen

Re: [Dspace-tech] Asset store cleanup failing

2009-12-08 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
do have cleanup in our cron table to run nightly. Sue From: younga3...@gmail.com [mailto:younga3...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Anjanette Young Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 1:30 PM To: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] Cc: dspace

Re: [Dspace-tech] Inherit authorization from collection to items and bundles

2009-12-04 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
This is the exact problem we're having and I don't know how to assign the authorization to Add to bundle. Sue From: Guillermo Antonio Varela [mailto:gavar...@icesi.edu.co] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:27 PM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [Dspace-tech] Asset store cleanup failing

2009-12-04 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Seems like we had this problem back in 1.4.2. Ours did the same thing - the script output shows the success messages you mention below, however if you look in the dspace.log, you'll see that it's indeed getting relational integrity errors - can't remember exactly, but it was something between

Re: [Dspace-tech] Add Bitstream

2009-12-03 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech From: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY

Re: [Dspace-tech] How to determine DSpace version?

2009-11-30 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Very simply, we put the version in our text on our site in the configuration parameter dspace.name in dspace.cfg. Example: dspace.name = Langley Digital Repository (LDR), version 1.5.1 Cheers, Sue -Original Message- From: Claudia Jürgen [mailto:claudia.juer...@ub.tu-dortmund.de]

[Dspace-tech] Authorization Error/Question - How to add ADD authorization for Bundle to DSpace 1.5.1?

2009-11-24 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
A User reported a problem she was having in our Production DSpace instance this morning as follows: There was an already-existing Item with 1 bundle/bitstream (.pdf file) in a Collection. She was trying to add another bitstream (.pdf file) to the Item and received this error:

Re: [Dspace-tech] Errors during vacuuming postgres

2009-11-24 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Also it takes a lng time to grant license while subscribing to a collection We have also been having this problem for quite awhile now and I have so far been unable to track it down. There can sometimes be an up to 7 minute delay. I think it may be related to authorization checking

[Dspace-tech] HELP with Implementing SRB or an alternative in DSpace 1.5.1

2009-11-18 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi, We have some unique collection access/authorization issues and we're trying to figure out if there's a way to implement the basic scenario depicted in the diagram below. What we're trying to avoid is having to implement the DSpace application on two servers, and having to deal with

Re: [Dspace-tech] Error : ant fresh_install

2009-11-01 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
You are now getting this error: [java] java.sql.SQLException: The url cannot be null Check your dspace.cfg configuration parameter for db.url. It looks like yours is null. Here is what we have ours set to: db.url = jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1:5432/dspace Hope this helps, Sue Walker-Thornton

Re: [Dspace-tech] Can't get LDAP to work in DSpace 1.5.1 - Please HELP!

2009-10-27 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
:22 AM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Can't get LDAP to work in DSpace 1.5.1 - Please HELP! On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 08:36:46AM -0500, Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] wrote: We are getting error: 32LDAP_NO_SUCH_OBJECT

Re: [Dspace-tech] Can't get LDAP to work in DSpace 1.5.1 - Please HELP!

2009-10-27 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
- From: Stuart Lewis [mailto:s.le...@auckland.ac.nz] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:08 PM To: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]; dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Dspace-tech] Can't get LDAP to work in DSpace 1.5.1 - Please HELP! Hi Sue, Try

Re: [Dspace-tech] Can't get LDAP to work in DSpace 1.5.1 - Please HELP!

2009-10-27 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
27, 2009 4:14 AM To: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Can't get LDAP to work in DSpace 1.5.1 - Please HELP! Hello there, I have enabled the LDAP server in our institution and I also had some problems during

Re: [Dspace-tech] Can't get LDAP to work in DSpace 1.5.1 - Please HELP!

2009-10-26 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
We are getting error: 32LDAP_NO_SUCH_OBJECT 20No such objectThe specified object does not exist in the directory. I put some displays in LDAPServlet.java and here is what I'm getting when I try to enter my username (it's in a field called agencyUID): 2009-10-26

Re: [Dspace-tech] Filtering errors with XPDF Tools

2009-10-20 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi Eric, I was successfully able to install and use pdftotext, but got the same errors as you when trying to create thumbnails. I tried a bunch of different things, but alas was not able to get it working. I know some folks have gotten it working though, so I'm not sure what the problem

Re: [Dspace-tech] Number of items in Community/Collection

2009-10-09 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
You also have some options in dspace.cfg as to how you want to keep these numbers updated -- realtime or in a nightly cron. We choose the nightly cron to minimize online overhead. So what happens is that any Items that are added to (or deleted from) DSpace are not reflected in the

Re: [Dspace-tech] media filter problem

2009-09-24 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
:57 PM To: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] media filter problem Hi Sue, Thanks - I've had those errors as well - How do you switch to xpdf? Thanks, Susan Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON

[Dspace-tech] Can you limit search index updates to overnight cron processing in DSpace 1.5.1?

2009-09-23 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
We have a large repository (currently 251,708 items) and are currently experiencing performance issues when doing online Item adds, modifies, or deletes. I'm thinking that this may be caused, at least in part, by the online index-updating. Is there a way in DSpace 1.5.1 to specify that you

Re: [Dspace-tech] media filter problem

2009-09-23 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi Susan, I'm not sure if the problem we were having is related to yours since you're dealing with .jpg files (we have all .pdfs), but we saw lots of similar errors prior to switching from the use of PDFBox to xpdftotext and xpdftothumbnail. When we were using PDFBox, approximately 10% of

[Dspace-tech] Can Stemming be turned off in DSpace Lucene searches?

2009-09-08 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
We are trying to figure out an easy way to turn off stemming in DSpace searches. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance, Sue Sue Walker-Thornton ConITS Contract NASA Langley Research Center Integrated Library Systems Application Database Administrator 130 Research Drive

Re: [Dspace-tech] Problem creating dspace database in 1.5.1 - correction

2009-08-25 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
. Sue From: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 1:57 PM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: 'Kimbrough, Glenn W. (LARC-B704)[NCI INFORMATION SYSTEMS]'; Smail, James W. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON

Re: [Dspace-tech] Fwd: xpdf question in DSpace 1.5.1

2009-08-14 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
in DSpace 1.5.1 -- Forwarded message -- From: Fabio N. Kepler fabio.kep...@gmail.commailto:fabio.kep...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:53 Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] xpdf question in DSpace 1.5.1 To: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] susan.m.thorn

Re: [Dspace-tech] Fwd: xpdf question in DSpace 1.5.1

2009-08-14 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
: Fabio N. Kepler [mailto:fabio.kep...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 3:41 PM To: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Fwd: xpdf question in DSpace 1.5.1 Hi, In my system the temporary file gets

[Dspace-tech] Import/Export vs. Registration in DSpace 1.5.1

2009-08-13 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
We are in the process of moving a Collection of documents out of our main DSpace repository, and into another separate DSpace instance. Our reasons for doing this are as follows: 1. We currently have 139,000 documents in this Collection and will eventually have approximately 900,000. The

[Dspace-tech] question about ItemImport processing in DSpace 1.5.1

2009-08-07 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Can anyone tell me if, as delivered and by default, ItemImport.java in DSpace 1.5.1 updates both the browse and search indices for each new record it adds/imports to DSpace? If so, can these real-time updates be turned off in order to speed up import processing time? We do run

Re: [Dspace-tech] ant fresh_install error

2009-08-07 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Sounds like maybe you have already run fresh_install or at least part of it...? It's getting an error trying to insert new rows into table(s) in the database. The good news is that, if this is what is happening, it won't hurt anything - the queries will just fail, but won't mess anything up.

Re: [Dspace-tech] Migrating Dspace to new physical server

2009-08-07 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Documents are stored on the server, usually in /dspace/assetstore while metadata is stored in the dspace database. You'll need to copy the assetstore directory(s) from the old server to the new as well as restoring the database. Hope I'm understanding your question and that this may help you!

Re: [Dspace-tech] Strange Search results

2009-08-06 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 5:44 PM To: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]; DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Smail, James W. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] Subject: RE: [Dspace-tech] Strange Search results Hi Sue, Lucene (the search system used

Re: [Dspace-tech] Creating E Person

2009-08-06 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
You're correct. You cannot set a password for an eperson even if you are an Administrator. I don't know if this is the proper way to do it, but once you define a new eperson, you can let them know to click on Forgot password on the site and from there they can set an initial password. They

[Dspace-tech] Strange Search results

2009-08-05 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
A User emailed me and told me he was getting some incorrect search results in DSpace 1.5.1. Here is the advanced search he did: Title = propeller Along with documents where the title contained the word propeller, he also got lots of documents where the title contained the word propellant. I

Re: [Dspace-tech] suggest an item

2009-07-31 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi Claudia, I'm wondering if you can switch back and forth from jspui to xmlui dynamically?? For instance, since the xmlui doesn't have the suggest feature, would it be possible to put a link on an xmlui page that links to the jspui ui suggest feature? Thanks, Sue -Original

Re: [Dspace-tech] dspace hanging up at the upload stage

2009-07-31 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Whenever a strange error occurs in DSpace, I look in 3 places for error or other messages that might indicate what the problem is: 1. dspace.log 2. webserver logs (access and server) 3. postgresql log I'd say 99% of the time, you will see some kind of error in at least one, if

Re: [Dspace-tech] Upgrading Version And Getting Error On Viewing Item

2009-07-27 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
For some reason, it can't find Java program DSIndexer. You say you are trying to run org.dspace.search.DSIndexer, but for some reason, it's looking for DSIndexer in org.dspace.browse From: Onte, Michael [mailto:mo...@lrri.org] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 11:02

Re: [Dspace-tech] Upgrading Version And Getting Error On ViewingItem

2009-07-27 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Let's see what error you're getting now (the entire error output would be helpful - thanks!) Sue From: Onte, Michael [mailto:mo...@lrri.org] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 1:37 PM To: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]; Hardik

[Dspace-tech] xpdf question in DSpace 1.5.1

2009-07-23 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi, I have successfully implemented xpdf pdftotext (replacing PDFBox) in DSpace 1.5.1. It works GREAT and so far has filtered 100% of our documents, even the ones PDFBox found to be unfilterable. Now I'm trying to get pdftoppm to work and I'm getting this error: Applying Media Filters

Re: [Dspace-tech] Search errors after deleting records in DSpace 1.5.1

2009-07-16 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
the search index, there were two pointers for that accession number in the search index, and the wrong one either got updated or deleted. Developers?? Anyone?? Does this sound plausible?? Thanks, Sue From: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES

Re: [Dspace-tech] Multiple Dspace instances on same DB

2009-07-08 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 1:50 AM To: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]; DSpace Tech Subject: RE: [Dspace-tech] Multiple Dspace instances on same DB Hi Sue, I can confirm it is possible to operate two instances of DSpace with a single set of database

Re: [Dspace-tech] Multiple Dspace instances on same DB

2009-07-08 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
...@library.usyd.edu.au] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 1:50 AM To: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]; DSpace Tech Subject: RE: [Dspace-tech] Multiple Dspace instances on same DB Hi Sue, I can confirm it is possible to operate two instances of DSpace with a single

Re: [Dspace-tech] metadatafieldregistry_pkey duplicate key error

2009-05-18 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
You just need to reset sequence metadatafieldregistry_seq to max(metadata_field_id) + 1 and then retry it. I ran into this problem when we migrated from Test to Prod since we had added new registry fields in Test. Best, Sue susan.m.thorn...@nasa.govmailto:susan.m.thorn...@nasa.gov NASA Langley

[Dspace-tech] New Advanced Search index question - DSpace 1.5.1

2009-05-18 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi, Can anyone tell me if it is necessary to run index-init again if I'm just adding a new index to the Advanced search, or is there an option where I can just build the new index without having to rebuild *all* of the indexes? We have just implemented DSpace 1.5.1 in Production and our

Re: [Dspace-tech] New Advanced Search index question - DSpace 1.5.1

2009-05-18 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
, May 18, 2009 2:31 PM To: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] Cc: DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net; Smail, James W. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] New Advanced Search index question - DSpace 1.5.1 Hi, at the moment

[Dspace-tech] Error in HandleServlet.java in DSpace 1.5.1

2009-05-15 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
I am getting an error in DSpace 1.5.1 when I try to display an Item. The error I'm getting is: java.lang.NullPointerException and it's happening in HandleServlet.java on the following line: List l = xHTMLHeadCrosswalk.disseminateList(item); I also noticed a couple of new errors in my

Re: [Dspace-tech] Error in HandleServlet.java in DSpace 1.5.1

2009-05-15 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 7:25 PM To: DSpace Tech Cc: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] Subject: Error in HandleServlet.java in DSpace 1.5.1 I am getting an error in DSpace 1.5.1 when I try to display an Item

Re: [Dspace-tech] Question about /dspace directory when upgrading from 1.4.2 to 1.5.1

2009-05-08 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] Cc: DSpace Tech; Kimbrough, Glenn W. (LARC-B7)[NCI] Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Question about /dspace directory when upgrading from 1.4.2 to 1.5.1 Susan, I try to answer inline... On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702

[Dspace-tech] Question about /dspace directory when upgrading from 1.4.2 to 1.5.1

2009-05-07 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
I have DSpace 1.5.1 successfully implemented on our Test machine and I am preparing to move it to Production, where we already have 1.4.2 implemented. My question is: What is the best way to get your /dspace directory correctly upgraded in Production? It seems to me that I've

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

2009-04-09 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
We've also experienced the Java heap errors in filter-media. What I did was create a postgreSQL table that holds the bitstream_id of each document that will not filter. I modified MediaFilterManager.java to write a row to this table whenever it encounters an unfilterable document (via Java

Re: [Dspace-tech] error running filter-media script

2009-03-06 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
If there are more than one document for this handle, then you can identify which one it is by looking at column size_bytes (file size below) in the bitstream table. Below is a sql query I use to list information from the bitstream, bundle, item, and handle tables, when I know one piece of

Re: [Dspace-tech] Embargo

2009-03-06 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi Sean, If you need a field in the database to control embargo, get your DBA to add one. We have added several custom fields to our database and it works fine. You just have to keep track of them and make the same changes in future releases. Sue -Original Message- From: Sean Carte

[Dspace-tech] log levels in DSpace 1.5.1

2009-03-04 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
We are in the testing phase of a DSpace upgrade from version 1.4.2 to 1.5.1. I happened to notice today that there seems to be a lot more INFO-level lines in 1.5.1's dspace.log files, than in 1.4.2. For example, there are a lot of displays when an online browse is executed, as follows:

Re: [Dspace-tech] Deleting a community

2009-02-27 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Besides the online user interface, is there a way to delete either a Collection or Community without having to first delete all the Items contained within? I tried this the other day in 1.4.2 and the only way I could find to do it was to use the import script (ItemImport.java) with the delete

[Dspace-tech] How long do you need to keep all the dspace.log.*s around?

2009-02-26 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
We are getting quite an accumulation of dspace/log/dspace.log.* files and I'm wondering if, once the dspace-log-general. file for those logs is created, is there any need to keep the old .log files around? We use WebTrends for usage statistics, by the way. We currently have DSpace 1.4.2, and

Re: [Dspace-tech] Installation Question

2009-02-23 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Hi Jeff, You can just do a database query (use command line or a tool such as pgAdminIII (this is what I like to use)) to either modify or remove the metadata entries for element=identifier, qualifier=uri. Very simple! We've also done this. Good luck! Sue