[Dspace-tech] Usability of DSpace

2011-07-04 Thread Alexandre Magaz Graça
Hi, Here, at the University of Lleida, we have an student who is working on the usability of DSpace for her Master's dissertation. She has already run some usability tests and before continuing, we would like to know if there's any interest on it. We would like the DSpace project to take

Re: [Dspace-tech] Usability of DSpace

2011-07-04 Thread Michael Guthrie
: Alexandre Magaz Graça [mailto:alexandre.ma...@udl.cat] Sent: 04 July 2011 13:28 To: DSpace Tech Subject: [Dspace-tech] Usability of DSpace Hi, Here, at the University of Lleida, we have an student who is working on the usability of DSpace for her Master's dissertation. She has already run some

Re: [Dspace-tech] Usability of DSpace

2011-11-29 Thread Alexandre Magaz Graça
Al 04/07/11 14:28, En/na Alexandre Magaz Graça ha escrit: Hi, Here, at the University of Lleida, we have an student who is working on the usability of DSpace for her Master's dissertation. She has already run some usability tests and before continuing, we would like to know if there's any

Re: [Dspace-tech] Usability of DSpace

2011-07-06 Thread Alexandre Magaz Graça
Hello Michael and Claudia, Thanks for the interest. As soon as she finishes with the results from the usability test, we'll publish it in the DSpace wiki. I'll send a mail to the list when it's ready so we can discuss it. Cheers, Àlex Al 05/07/11 09:17, En/na Claudia Jürgen ha escrit: Hello

[Dspace-tech] One minute Research Survey about Usability

2011-04-04 Thread Arif Raza
  Hi Please find below a link to my research survey. It is related to Usability and other Quality Attributes in OSS. Link of the survey is: http://www.kwiksurveys.com?s=IMIKKO_56cbd9a6 Your participation is highly valued and appreciated. Thank you Best Regards Arif P.S. This email has been

Re: [Dspace-tech] Usability of DSpace

2011-07-05 Thread Claudia Jürgen
Hello Alexandre, as far as I know there has been no concise effort with regards to usability. Single aspects like accessibility has been regarded. So your input about it is very welcome. You can share your work with the DSpace Community by a) discussinng it on the dspace lists b) document

[Dspace-tech] Dspace vs Greenstone

2007-07-13 Thread Twaha Daudi
Hi alll, Good day!. I would like to know which is the best between Dspace and Greenstone in terms of easy to install and configure,learning curve,performance and usability in Library. Thank you for your help udd - Need a vacation? Get great

Re: [Dspace-tech] Understanding Workflow Authorizations

2008-06-30 Thread Dorothea Salo
I thought at this point, the admin would be able to open the file to look at it; however, there is no link for the file. Is there a link for the file on the previous screens (accept and perform task)? I suspect this may be a usability wart rather than a permissions error. Dorothea

Re: [Dspace-tech] Understanding Workflow Authorizations

2008-06-30 Thread Susan Teague Rector
on the previous screens (accept and perform task)? I suspect this may be a usability wart rather than a permissions error. Dorothea - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell

Re: [Dspace-tech] List Items in the Initial Collections Display

2011-11-29 Thread Peter Dietz
Hi Joseph, We've run across this usability stumbling block too. You get to a collection and there's nothing in it (atleast it looks that way). Our interest was to add browse-by-title and show some 20 results. We haven't done that yet, but we've atleast added a link to Click Here to show all

Re: [Dspace-tech] List Items in the Initial Collections Display

2011-12-14 Thread Peter Dietz
page. -Joseph On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:50, Peter Dietz pdiet...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Joseph, We've run across this usability stumbling block too. You get to a collection and there's nothing in it (atleast it looks that way). Our interest was to add browse-by-title and show some 20

Re: [Dspace-tech] browse by jump to order

2007-04-20 Thread Dorothea Salo
if the record you actually want is just before the record you got. Unfortunately, most library systems (not just DSpace!) aren't smart enough to highlight the matched record in order to catch the user's eye and ease the exact usability frustration that led you to ask this question. I wonder how

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace vs Greenstone

2007-07-16 Thread Dorothea Salo
or Greenstone would be an acceptable choice for this use. DSpace is somewhat better on document preservation; Greenstone has advantages in end-user usability and flexibility. I would recommend trying both; it is possible to crosswalk items between them, so time spent ingesting material into one

[Dspace-tech] Pdf problems

2007-09-20 Thread Mika Stenberg
Hi, We are experiencing increasing difficulties in opening pdf- files via Dspace / Manakin. This is beginning to look like a serious problem which affects the overall usability of the software. The problem exists both in Manakin UI and Dspace UI. If someone has any suggestions how to make

[Dspace-tech] Static page 1.8.0 Patch fix, usability on 1.7.2

2011-12-16 Thread Brett Arno
I've been following the topic of static pages and them being broken in 1.8. We are currently using 1.7.2 with Mirage and wondering if the patch supplied here https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-1076 would be usable on our version? It's my understanding that the patch is just adding a new java

Re: [Dspace-tech] List Items in the Initial Collections Display

2011-12-14 Thread Joseph
page. -Joseph On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:50, Peter Dietz pdiet...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Joseph, We've run across this usability stumbling block too. You get to a collection and there's nothing in it (atleast it looks that way). Our interest was to add browse-by-title and show some 20 results

Re: [Dspace-tech] browse by jump to order

2007-04-20 Thread Sarah Ryder
*not* to be the record you actually want, you can't see if the record you actually want is just before the record you got. Unfortunately, most library systems (not just DSpace!) aren't smart enough to highlight the matched record in order to catch the user's eye and ease the exact usability frustration

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace vs Greenstone

2007-07-13 Thread George Kozak
. At 11:03 AM 7/13/2007, Twaha Daudi wrote: Hi alll, Good day!. I would like to know which is the best between Dspace and Greenstone in terms of easy to install and configure,learning curve,performance and usability in Library. Thank you for your help udd Need a vacation? http

Re: [Dspace-tech] Pdf problems

2007-09-20 Thread James Rutherford
to look like a serious problem which affects the overall usability of the software. The problem exists both in Manakin UI and Dspace UI. If someone has any suggestions how to make pdf files open in browser, please let me know. You can see a demo of such problem at: http://hdl.handle.net

Re: [Dspace-tech] Pdf problems

2007-09-20 Thread Rune Pettersen
9 Firefox 2 on linux. cheers, Jim On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:57:43PM +0300, Mika Stenberg wrote: Hi, We are experiencing increasing difficulties in opening pdf- files via Dspace / Manakin. This is beginning to look like a serious problem which affects the overall usability

Re: [Dspace-tech] Pdf problems

2007-09-20 Thread Conal Tuohy
difficulties in opening pdf- files via Dspace / Manakin. This is beginning to look like a serious problem which affects the overall usability of the software. The problem exists both in Manakin UI and Dspace UI. If someone has any suggestions how to make pdf files open in browser, please let

Re: [Dspace-tech] HTML5 and the future of DSpace

2009-11-03 Thread Jason Fowler
with their browsers. One current framework that's helping extend the use of the video tag is Video for Everybody! (http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody). The usability approach taken by the framework's programmers relies on having two bitstreams, one created using the patent-encumbered H.264 codec

Re: [Dspace-tech] Embargo and OAI interface

2011-05-10 Thread Tom De Mulder
instances where it might be necessary for metadata to be hidden: - data protection (if the metadata contains sensitive information) - commercial interest (e.g. novel discoveries waiting to be exploited) - academic (e.g. disputed works) - usability (dark items aren't available, so shouldn't show up

Re: [Dspace-tech] Embargo and OAI interface

2011-05-10 Thread Mark Diggory
(if the metadata contains sensitive information) - commercial interest (e.g. novel discoveries waiting to be exploited) - academic (e.g. disputed works) - usability (dark items aren't available, so shouldn't show up) We've put considerable work in filtering dark items from search results (which

[Dspace-tech] Discovery-based search results being returned in (mislabeled) ascending rather than descending order

2011-11-11 Thread Patrick Etienne
this way, be even if that were the case, the results are still being mislabeled (though this could be a usability issue, but I don't feel that it is). I've created a Jira for the issuehttps://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-1071. If you have any tips, hints, suggestions, or experience in general that might

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

2012-06-15 Thread helix84
as a solution, but I'm not entirely sure it addresses this particular usability problem (though it is a cool way to navigate repository data). Cheers, Alan [1] https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-1188 If you agree with my proposed solution, log in to Jira and vote for the bug. You can also tell

Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality

2011-01-06 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
will continue to run into this general problem: the user will be challenged by the size of the object you are attempting to give them. As it increases, usability decreases. There are ways around this, currently: you either convert the objects to a format that can be streamed, or you break

Re: [Dspace-tech] Pdf problems

2007-09-20 Thread Girija S
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:57:43PM +0300, Mika Stenberg wrote: Hi, We are experiencing increasing difficulties in opening pdf- files via Dspace / Manakin. This is beginning to look like a serious problem which affects the overall usability of the software. The problem exists both

Re: [Dspace-tech] XMLUI: checkbox labels?

2010-01-05 Thread Dorothea Salo
I thought so at first! But no, I don't see the actual text remove or selected or anything of the sort anywhere nearby. (For context, I'm trying to get rid of those two labels specifically because they gunk up the display for no real usability benefit.) Dorothea On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:07 AM

Re: [Dspace-tech] Static page 1.8.0 Patch fix, usability on 1.7.2

2011-12-16 Thread Peter Dietz
Hi Brett, Thanks for your interest in this patch. I was hoping to get more feedback before it went in to 1.8.1, but I could have written the patch sooner. For the components that DS-1076 (Xmlui static pages) affects, it should work just fine with 1.7.2. So feel free to invest the time patching

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

2012-06-15 Thread Alan Orth
have to choose a browse type in order to see the collection contents. We don't want to lose users because they're confused and can't navigate our repositories. Furthermore, Discovery's faceted search was suggested as a solution, but I'm not entirely sure it addresses this particular usability

Re: [Dspace-tech] Ingesting large data set

2012-08-30 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
it is *in* DSpace, how do you plan on getting it *out*? I'd love to hear more from folks who are storing large data sets, just to hear how you're handling usability of the stored data. [warning, I'm about to jump of the deep end here...] One possibility worth exploring is streaming uploads and downloads

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

2015-06-11 Thread Alan Orth
fork that repo and give this a more structured test. I already found some syntax and usability bugs there (mixing sh and bash, not reading the sourced variables, etc). Alan On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Bruno Zanette brunonzane...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Alan, Take a look at the commentaries

Re: [Dspace-tech] Week 3: Good Repository Software

2008-09-02 Thread Bram Luyten
. If there is no such compatibility yet, someone should be able to estimate when it will be. 2.4 Usability Good software should be user friendly. It's difficult to make sure that all types of users will be able to figure out in a short time-span how they can do the actions they want. I think a baseline

Re: [Dspace-tech] Development goals

2007-11-19 Thread Dorothea Salo
web programming. I'm good with XML. I'm aware of usability issues and practices, though I don't have any talent for coming up with fixes, and I'm well-grounded in web accessibility. And every single DSpace committer right now is laughing fit to kill, because the above skill list is *pathetic*. As I

Re: [Dspace-tech] Reply-To Header missing - list misconfigured?

2007-07-31 Thread Christian Voelker
that have to do with usability. Hear him talk, all what he has to tell is elm can do it. Well, I can do so too. I actually just do. Yes, and every decent MUA has two different commands. The thing is, in 99.999% of all cases you use hit reply and not reply-all, dont you? Do you ever think about when

[Dspace-tech] Upload of Bibliographic Data

2009-08-28 Thread Alexander Wagner
the authors local BibTeX record, upload that one to DSpace, hook up the PDF done again. Does such a system exist already? I think it would improve usability for the endusers (and therefore acceptance) considerably. -- Kind regards, Alexander Wagner Subject Specialist Central Library 52425 Juelich

Re: [Dspace-tech] XMLUI: checkbox labels?

2010-01-05 Thread Walker, David
to get rid of those two labels specifically because they gunk up the display for no real usability benefit.) Dorothea On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Jason Fowler jfow...@sbts.edu wrote: Dorothea, Could it be in the lines in structural.xsl that look like this? input type=checkbox value

Re: [Dspace-tech] Embargo and OAI interface

2011-05-10 Thread Blanco, Jose
instances where it might be necessary for metadata to be hidden: - data protection (if the metadata contains sensitive information) - commercial interest (e.g. novel discoveries waiting to be exploited) - academic (e.g. disputed works) - usability (dark items aren't available, so shouldn't show up

[Dspace-tech] Front End Web Developer Position at Ohio State University Libraries

2011-10-31 Thread Black, Elizabeth
as Quality Assurance Lead for all applications produced by the development team including producing test plans, test cases, automated unit testing, and working closely with usability and accessibility experts on campus. Works with a variety of technical and non-technical staff to design and create web

Re: [Dspace-tech] Static page 1.8.0 Patch fix, usability on 1.7.2

2011-12-16 Thread Brett Arno
Thanks Peter, The patching process went smoothly aside from like you mentioned spacing issues in the structural.xsl file. After the patch was applied and I made the edits to our page-structure.xsl, I tried to rebuild dspace. The build was going well until it hit this error: [ERROR] BUILD

Re: [Dspace-tech] Ingesting large data set

2012-08-30 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
you plan on getting it *out*? I'd love to hear more from folks who are storing large data sets, just to hear how you're handling usability of the stored data. [warning, I'm about to jump of the deep end here...] One possibility worth exploring is streaming uploads and downloads. I've come

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

2015-06-11 Thread Alan Orth
I guess I'll fork that repo and give this a more structured test. I already found some syntax and usability bugs there (mixing sh and bash, not reading the sourced variables, etc). Alan On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Bruno Zanette brunonzane...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Alan, Take a look

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

2015-06-15 Thread Terry Brady
and give this a more structured test. I already found some syntax and usability bugs there (mixing sh and bash, not reading the sourced variables, etc). Alan On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Bruno Zanette brunonzane...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Alan, Take a look at the commentaries on the REST-API's

Re: [Dspace-tech] Pdf problems

2007-09-20 Thread Mark Diggory
are experiencing increasing difficulties in opening pdf- files via Dspace / Manakin. This is beginning to look like a serious problem which affects the overall usability of the software. The problem exists both in Manakin UI and Dspace UI. If someone has any suggestions how to make pdf files open

[Dspace-tech] Open repositories call for papers deadline

2007-11-30 Thread Michele Kimpton
, research, management, admninistratiion - Multi-agenda, multi-function, multi-purpose repositories - Usefulness and usability - Reference, reuse, reanalysis and repurposing of content - Citation of data / learning objects - Changes in scholarly practice - New benchmarks for scholarly success

Re: [Dspace-tech] XMLUI: checkbox labels?

2010-01-05 Thread Walker, David
text remove or selected or anything of the sort anywhere nearby. (For context, I'm trying to get rid of those two labels specifically because they gunk up the display for no real usability benefit.) Dorothea On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Jason Fowler jfow...@sbts.edu wrote: Dorothea, Could

Re: [Dspace-tech] XMLUI: checkbox labels?

2010-01-05 Thread Tim Donohue
because they gunk up the display for no real usability benefit.) Dorothea On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Jason Fowlerjfow...@sbts.edu wrote: Dorothea, Could it be in the lines in structural.xsl that look like this? input type=checkbox value={concat(@n,'_',$position)} name={concat(@n

Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality

2011-01-06 Thread Mark H. Wood
how the material is stored, but they care a great deal if the content isn't available with the same, or similar, level of usability. OK, that's a problem. But that all sounds like PDF so far. PDFs need to be linearized to support random page access, but that's easy and can be done with free

[Dspace-tech] Front End Web Developer Position at Ohio State University

2011-10-24 Thread Black, Elizabeth
in order to ensure ongoing support of applications. Serves as Quality Assurance Lead for all applications produced by the development team including producing test plans, test cases, automated unit testing, and working closely with usability and accessibility experts on campus. Works

Re: [Dspace-tech] Static page 1.8.0 Patch fix, usability on 1.7.2

2011-12-16 Thread Peter Dietz
Hi Brett, In StaticPage.java, remove ProcessingException from line 31, and recompile. Peter Dietz On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Brett Arno barno...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Peter, The patching process went smoothly aside from like you mentioned spacing issues in the structural.xsl

Re: [Dspace-tech] Ingesting large data set

2012-08-30 Thread Ingram, William A
is: once it is *in* DSpace, how do you plan on getting it *out*? I'd love to hear more from folks who are storing large data sets, just to hear how you're handling usability of the stored data. [warning, I'm about to jump of the deep end here...] One possibility worth exploring is streaming

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

2015-06-17 Thread Alan Orth
structured test. I already found some syntax and usability bugs there (mixing sh and bash, not reading the sourced variables, etc). Alan On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Bruno Zanette brunonzane...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Alan, Take a look at the commentaries on the REST-API's documentation's

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

2015-06-15 Thread Kim Shepherd
://github.com/BrunoNZ/dspace-rest-requests I guess I'll fork that repo and give this a more structured test. I already found some syntax and usability bugs there (mixing sh and bash, not reading the sourced variables, etc). Alan On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Bruno Zanette brunonzane

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

2015-08-05 Thread Peter Dietz
I need to log in as you illustrated here: https://github.com/BrunoNZ/dspace-rest-requests I guess I'll fork that repo and give this a more structured test. I already found some syntax and usability bugs there (mixing sh and bash, not reading the sourced variables, etc). Alan On Wed, Jun

Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality

2011-01-10 Thread Rajat Gupta
, or similar, level of usability. OK, that's a problem. But that all sounds like PDF so far. PDFs need to be linearized to support random page access, but that's easy and can be done with free tools. In addition to page turning, we're also interested in adding large-scale image viewing

[Dspace-tech] New versions of the Statistics and Request-Copy Add-ons

2007-02-08 Thread Eloy Rodrigues
is to increase both the content deposited in Institutional Repositories (IRs) and its immediate usability by providing a way to accommodate the (frequently unfounded) worries of authors and their institutions about copyright infringement during any publisher embargo periods on public self-archiving

Re: [Dspace-tech] eperson popup error

2007-04-09 Thread Glenn Bunton
the first form on the page, thus breaking the Javascript. SoI created a new header for the Admin pages that doesn't include the search box so I wouldn't have to change all the Javascript. It's not the most elegant solution because I need to touch each admin jsp. However, from a usability

[Dspace-tech] DEADLINE EXTENDED: OR09 proposals due Feb. 6, 2009

2009-01-28 Thread Larry Hansard
* Social networking, annotation / tagging, personalization * Searching / information discovery * Multi-stakeholder value: preservation, open access, research, management, administration * Multi-agenda, multi-function, multi-purpose repositories * Usefulness and usability

Re: [Dspace-tech] XMLUI: checkbox labels?

2010-01-05 Thread Dorothea Salo
: Re: [Dspace-tech] XMLUI: checkbox labels? I thought so at first! But no, I don't see the actual text remove or selected or anything of the sort anywhere nearby. (For context, I'm trying to get rid of those two labels specifically because they gunk up the display for no real usability benefit

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] DSpace: digital archive or literature archive?

2007-06-04 Thread Derek Hohls
or cast any aspersions on the usability of DSpace; rather, I was trying to see where it could or might not meet our specific needs. We do have a preference to use an OSS solution - and one of the great aspects of the OSS development model is that there is often are choices; with each one having its

[Dspace-tech] Another Internal System Error

2007-07-13 Thread Brian Helstien
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Re: [Dspace-tech] Another Internal System Error

2007-07-15 Thread Brian Helstien
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Re: [Dspace-tech] Another Internal System Error

2007-07-16 Thread Brian Helstien
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