Hi Everyone and greetings to you from sunny Auckland New Zealand. You will hopefully be getting ready to leave work for the evening as I arrive on Friday morning.
Its Leonie Hayes, my latest job title is Research Support Services Manager in the Research and Academic Services group at the University Library. We run DSpace 1.6.2 and will be upgrading to DSpace 1.7 very soon. We first started using DSpace in 2006/2007 for a Thesis project. Seems like a long time ago. I have been very busy working on another project for the last 6 months. We now have an integrated Research Outputs Management system using Symplectic Elements this is hooked to our repository and pushes content from Academic staff directly into DSpace using the Repository Tools integration software supplied by Symplectic. Staff now don't ever need to go near DSpace and its quite seamless, we felt this approach was going to create more content in our repository. In our Digital Development team we have Stuart Lewis (Lead), Kim Shepherd and YinYin Latt all top DSpace developers with loads of experience, so we are very fortunate that we can move forward quite quickly. We don't do much customisation and try to upgrade as quickly as possible, I spent a lot of time trying to make sure that our metadata was comprehensive but have always been disappointed with the fact there is no metadata for separate elements of a citation like volume, issue and s/e pages, also export to endnote/BibTeX etc and that is something I hope to contribute to the community for 1.8. Cheers Leonie Leonie Hayes Acting Research Support Services Manager University of Auckland Library http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/contacts/?stid=124 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 21 January 2011 8:36 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Dspace-general Digest, Vol 13, Issue 10 Send Dspace-general mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Dspace-general digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Is there a connection between the metadata fields in DSpace & the DSpace database? (Herbert Lensch) 2. Re: DSpace 1.7 discussion: Customizations (Matveyeva, Susan) 3. Re: DSpace 1.7 discussion: Introductions (Platt, Alice) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:57:24 -0500 From: Herbert Lensch <[email protected]> Subject: [Dspace-general] Is there a connection between the metadata fields in DSpace & the DSpace database? To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I hope I am sending this to the appropriate list, if not I apologize. I am new to DSpace and have taken over the support role for our library that is using DSpace for content management. Currently, they seem to be continuing to develop their metadata fields after a number of collections have already been loaded to our 1.6 instance. Now there are suddenly problems with searching for Author, Title, Subject, or Issue Date on the site, DSpace reports: 'There are no entries in the index for "All of DSpace".' When I have attempted to reindex DSpace via the dsrun org.dspace.browse.IndexBrowse -f -r command, I get an error that says: 'ORA-00942: the table or view does not exist'. After looking at the metadata field registry, I've noted a number of changes from the last time everything worked properly until now. So I was wondering if there was a direct connection between the metadata field registry and the database? If this is the case, I don't believe my end-users in the library understand the magnitude of the changes they are making in the metadata field registry. Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide. Environment: - Red Hat Enterprise 5 - DSpace 1.6 - Oracle 11g -- Bert Lensch System Support Specialist III Information Technology Services - Computer Center Georgia Southern University [email protected] (912) 478-2395 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:24:58 -0600 From: "Matveyeva, Susan" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 discussion: Customizations To: "Platt, Alice" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <2a150377d6cd2f43b3ac781236bfca4dd56b9a2...@exchange-01.ad.wichita.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, I am Susan Matveyeva, manager of SOAR<http://soar.wichita.edu/>, Wichita State University institutional repository. SOAR is in production from 2007. Our DSpace runs on Linux. We have upgraded recently to 1.6.2 XMLUI and will be waiting with next upgrade at least for several months. We do not have developers in house. We enhanced SOAR with help of @mire by adding three their modules (zoom, audio-visual streaming, and document viewer). Is it appropriate to discuss desirable new functionality here? I am very interested in automated delivery of statistics of hits and downloads to our authors. Bepress Digital Commons has this feature. The system sends monthly reports to the authors. Some our faculty mentioned to me how wonderful it would be to receive monthly email update from SOAR. Personally, I think that automated statistics delivery is the excellent tool to promote an institutional repository and to recruit content from authors. I'd like to hear your opinion on this matter. Would it be a good idea to develop similar functionality for DSpace? Sorry if I jumped off the topic. Thanks Susan __________________________ Susan Matveyeva, PhD, MLIS, B.Mus Associate Professor, Catalog & Institutional Repository Librarian Wichita State University Libraries 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0068 Office: (316) 978-5139 Fax: (316) 978-3496 [email protected] http://soar.wichita.edu -----Original Message----- From: Platt, Alice [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 discussion: Customizations Brian notes that his institution customizes fairly heavily, which does bring a lot of challenges to upgrading the software. This brings me to another question for the group. What kinds of customizations do you have at your institution, and why? We have very little at SNHU outside of branding, customizing search parameters and changing the brief item display, mainly because we don't have the resources to support a lot of customization. Alice -----Original Message----- From: Brian Freels-Stendel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 discussion: Upgrade Challenges Hello, I'm Brian Freels-Stendel, a programmer at the University of New Mexico Libraries. We're running 1.6.2 XMLUI on RHEL. We started with 1.3.2, whenever that was, it gets hazy. Our philosophy is not to be bleeding edge, so we generally don't jump on a .0 release, but we do want to remain semi-current, so a .1 is ok. We also have a devil of a time with prerequisite software (we almost were not able to upgrade to 1.6 due to Ant, and we will have to wait for 1.7 because RH isn't offering a late enough version of maven.) We customize fairly heavily, and that is always a challenge, but almost always possible because of great community support. 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Alice From: Peter Dietz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:04 PM To: George Stanley Kozak Cc: Platt, Alice; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 discussion: Introductions Hi All, I'm Peter Dietz, developer at the Ohio State University Libraries. I made my first customizations to DSpace code in Fall 2009, and had lots of questions that people on both the mailing lists and the IRC were able to help me out. Since then, I've become the Release Coordinator for 1.7. The goals of 1.7 were to have a stable and on-schedule release with a nice balance of features. I stretched a few of the deadlines for development so that we could fit as many bug fixes in as possible, as well as getting some important features included. We've also performed extensive testing of the software before release, and minimized bug introduction by adding a code testing server. I'll also be doing a webcast next week to give an introduction to the new features of DSpace 1.7. At my University our team is busy working on our switchover to XMLUI, which includes look-and-feel improvements (images, image gallery) -- see screenshots at: http://picasaweb.google.com/pdietz84/OSULibrariesDSpaceDesigns#<http://picasaweb.google.com/pdietz84/OSULibrariesDSpaceDesigns>, as well as many back-end improvements (proxy-license bundle, iTunes Podcast support). After the XMLUI project we'll upgrade our development environment to 1.7, and work on making better use of the SOLR statistics system (top items / bitstreams per collection). I've already backported some of my favorite features of 1.7 to our 1.6 system (Mirage theme, bitstream ordering). What I'm looking for from the community is an increased interest, feedback, and participation in side projects. Such as getting active community developed themes, curation tasks, and other plugins. Getting involved is actually much easier than one might think, especially since developers love feedback on projects, and are generally pretty helpful. Peter Dietz Systems Developer/Engineer Ohio State University Libraries On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:21 AM, George Stanley Kozak <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Alice, et al.: I am George Kozak, Digital Library Specialist at the Cornell University Library. Our repository launched in 2002. We are running DSpace 1.6.2 on a Sun T-series Server. We hope to upgrade to 1.7 this summer. George Kozak Digital Library Specialist Cornell University Library Information Technologies (CUL-IT) 501 Olin Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 607-255-8924 From: Platt, Alice [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:59 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 discussion: Introductions Welcome to the first DSpace Online Discussion! Today we will talk about DSpace 1.7: is it on your roadmap? Why or why not? This discussion will take place today and tomorrow. It will end at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time tomorrow evening. After the discussion, I will provide a summary of what was discussed. I expect the discussion will branch into other topics. This is encouraged! Please feel free to respond to any aspect of the discussion that interests you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'd like to begin the discussion by introducing ourselves. Please state who you are, the version of DSpace you are running, what platform you are on, and when you started using DSpace. Then let us know: are you planning to upgrade to DSpace 1.7 in the next six months, or have you upgraded already? I will start: I am Alice Platt, Digital Initiatives Librarian at Southern New Hampshire University. Our repository launched in May 2010. We are running DSpace 1.5.2 on Windows. We hope to upgrade to 1.7 this summer. 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