Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] Is it OK to add data fields at the database level?

2007-07-04 Thread Christophe Dupriez

Hi Fiona!

I am not a DSpace committer, just adapting it for the internal needs of 
Belgium PoisonCentre.


At my best knowledge, you can alter metadata in the item metadata table 
but, if the field is indexed by Lucene (fields indicated in the advanced 
search form), then you will have to reindex the whole base. If it is an 
enormous one, you could index differently for an added field than for a 
(re)moved one.


If your IT staff is more confortable with SQL, they do not have to 
refrain using it (except for the Lucene question) but using the Item 
class for updating, if you are using Java, is not that bad.
I have submitted an improved version working better for import/re-import 
of metadata. Please let me know if you want a copy of it (compatible 
1.4.1 - 1.4.2).


Have a nice day!

Christophe Dupriez
http://www.destin.be


Fiona Campbell a écrit :

Dear DSpace Experts,
I have been asked by our staff if there are objections to undertaking
bulk changes in the dspace database using Postgres commands, i.e
directly modifiying particular tables to insert/update data. Their
feeling is that doing records one at time is not what computer systems
are about.

In particular they are looking at making bulk changes to some items
which contain a dc.rights field, where they need to add a dc.rights.url
field corresponding the Creative Commons licence the item has.

There has been some testing done on a minor test machine and so far
nothing appears to have gone wrong as such, but I am concerned that
often problems are not always spotted. I am fairly conservative in these
things.

Has anyone tried to do this?

Has anyone an opinion on doing this?

Thanks,



Susan Chapman
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Swinburne University of Technology

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Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] 1.4.1 Date Browse empty

2007-07-04 Thread Richard Jones
Hi Fiona,

CC'd to the DSpace tech for any additional comments

 I sent this to the list last week but havent had any list digest since
 so I dont know if it got there.  This is a critical error for us.  We
 cannot upgrade the live site until we know what is causing this problem.
 
 
 
 We have upgraded from 1.3.1 to 1.4.1 and now find that the Browse by
 Date doesnt work i.e. the display is empty.  If I go into a collection
 and browse by Date I get results.  Has anyone else had this problem?

What message do you actually get when you try and browse by date?  If 
the page is actually blank then there has been an internal error of some 
description; if there are no dates indexed you will get a page which 
says no entries in the index or similar wording.

If the page is actually blank, you may find an error in your dspace.log 
file which can help us diagnose the problem; if you could forward any 
errors that you find to the dspace-tech list we may be able to diagnose 
it for you.

In the mean time, I would recommend updating from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2, as 
this fixed a number of bugs which may have an impact on your system.

And not to miss an opportunity to blow my own trumpet, you may consider 
trying out the new Browse code, which I have posted as a patch to 
SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1702233group_id=19984atid=319984

Which will give you considerably more flexibility when allocating your 
browse indices.

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[Dspace-tech] How can register harvested metadata without the items?

2007-07-04 Thread Hlias Stavrakis
Hi, 
is it possible to register in DSpace only metadata (per item or batch) of items 
that does not exist in local file system?

Any comment will be helpfull,
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[Dspace-tech] Searching PDF-scanned documents: Adobe Capture a solution?

2007-07-04 Thread Jennifer Ash
Dear Community Members

 

The Water Research Commission (WRC, South Africa) is currently assessing
a pilot installation of DSpace.

We want to use DSpace to store, search and retrieve all our WRC research
reports and Water SA (a scientific publication, 4 issues pa) issues
(this is the primary goal; other collections will most likely be added
over time).

We are faced with a problem in that most of our older publications are
not in electronic format and will have to be scanned.

Scanning and saving as PDF does not provide a full text searchable
document in DSpace; I've tried it.

 

A product, Adobe Capture, is advertised as a 'tool that teams with your
scanner to convert volumes of paper documents into searchable Adobe
Portable Document Format (PDF) files'.

We are keen to investigate this product but there are no trial downloads
offered by Adobe.

Do you have any knowledge of this product? Can you advise on a suitable
tehnology solution for our problem? Our backlog is vast and spans many
years, so there are loads of documents that need to be scanned.

 

I do hope someone can give me advice.

 

Kind regards

 

 

Jennifer Ash 
..
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Water Research Commission 
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Re: [Dspace-tech] Non-ASCII Unicode and searching in DSpace

2007-07-04 Thread Graham Triggs
Yes, this browse problem has been discovered before, and there is a
solution to it ;)

The ordering is dependent on the 'sort_' columns of the browse table. By
altering the normalisation of the data that is stored there, you can
affect the way the ordering is done, without the LC_COLLATE side
effects.

Applying this patch:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1672065group_id=19984atid=319984

(remember to add the ICU4J jar), will decompose the non-ascii characters
into the ascii main character and a separate combining character before
writing it to the database.

It also makes it easy to customize the normalization in other ways - for
example, you could easily strip all the non-ascii combining characters
after decomposition if you wanted. Or do something more advanced - like
obey the correct ordering rules for a specified locale (although this
would be 'baked in' to the database table for everyone, not be per user
based).

The patch above has minimal impact on the existing codebase - IIRC,
there are only three lines in existing code that it alters.

As noted in the comments, there is also Richard Jones' patch:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1702233group_id=19984atid=319984

which incorporates the above ordering customisation / fixes. It's well
worth considering using, although it would take a little more effort to
switch over to.


G

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 22:18 +0930, Steve Thomas wrote:
 I’m still investigating this problem – and I can’t imagine that others have
 not also run into this, although it is possible they have simply not
 noticed.
 
 In our Author browse list we have things like this sequence:
 
 Hill, Robert Stephen  
 Hill, Roderick Jeffrey  
 Hills, Brian Andrew  
 Hills, F  
 Hill, S. G.  
 Hill, S. J.  
 Hills, K.  
 Hill, S. M.  
 Hill, T.  
 
 -- you can see that the sequence seems to be ignoring punctuation AND
 spaces, which is not good. The unix sort utility also produces the same
 sequence.
 
 I suspect this is something to do with the Unix locale settings,
 specifically the environment variable LC_COLLATE. 
 On our RedHat system, this is LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8
 On the old Solaris box (where the collation sequence is correct) we have
 LC_COLLATE=en_AU.ISO8859-1
 
 However, on RedHat the collation from sort is only correct if I set
 LC_COLLATE=C
 
 
 So the problem appears to be two-fold: how do we get the browse sort order
 to be correct, including non-ASCII characters, AND how do we search words
 with non-ASCII characters?
 
 
 Any and all ideas welcomed. 
 
 
 
 Stephen Thomas,
 Senior Systems Analyst,
 University of Adelaide Library
 UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE SA 5005 AUSTRALIA
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 Hi.
 
 We recently moved from a Solaris box to an HP running RHEL. Now I find that
 search and browse no longer work with words containing non-ASCII Unicode
 characters, e.g. the name Mühlhäusler. This doesn’t show up in the browse
 list, and searches fail to find it.
 
 Was there something we missed in the installation, or is this an artefact of
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 We’re still on DSpace 1.3.2
 
 Display is fine, just the searching is a problem.
 
 
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Re: [Dspace-tech] Searching PDF-scanned documents: Adobe Capture asolution?

2007-07-04 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi,

The problem with your scanning attempts is that you are just capturing
an image of the page. To have searchable content, you need to perform
optical character recognition on the images.

According to:
http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrcapture/

Then yes, this will create PDFs that contain searchable words - although
with all OCR solutions, there is the question of accuracy, and for that
you would need the opinion of someone with experience of using the
product.

G

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 12:55 +0200, Jennifer Ash wrote:
 Dear Community Members
 
  
 
 The Water Research Commission (WRC, South Africa) is currently
 assessing a pilot installation of DSpace.
 
 We want to use DSpace to store, search and retrieve all our WRC
 research reports and Water SA (a scientific publication, 4 issues pa)
 issues (this is the primary goal; other collections will most likely
 be added over time).
 
 We are faced with a problem in that most of our older publications are
 not in electronic format and will have to be scanned.
 
 Scanning and saving as PDF does not provide a full text searchable
 document in DSpace; I've tried it.
 
  
 
 A product, Adobe Capture, is advertised as a 'tool that teams with
 your scanner to convert volumes of paper documents into searchable
 Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files'.
 
 We are keen to investigate this product but there are no trial
 downloads offered by Adobe.
 
 Do you have any knowledge of this product? Can you advise on a
 suitable tehnology solution for our problem? Our backlog is vast and
 spans many years, so there are loads of documents that need to be
 scanned.
 
  
 
 I do hope someone can give me advice.
 
  
 
 Kind regards
 
  
 
  
 
 Jennifer Ash 
 ……
 Business Systems Manager
 Water Research Commission 
 Private Bag X03 
 GEZINA (Pretoria) 
 0031 
 Tel: (012) 330-9036 / 330-0340 
 Fax: (012) 330-9010 / 331-2565 
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[Dspace-tech] Problems with export of a collection

2007-07-04 Thread David Rodríguez Mateos
Hello,

We have a DSpace 1.4.2 e-archive.

We are trying to export a complete collection with dsrun, but... it does 
not work. A message Error, collection cannot be found: appears as only 
answer. The sentence used and the answer were:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/dspace/bin# ./dsrun 
 org.dspace.app.itemexport.ItemExport --type=COLLECTION --id=114 
 --dest=/home/dspace/e-archivo-byd/ --number=1
 log4j:ERROR Failed to excute sql
 java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver
 at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:545)
 at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:171)
 at 
 org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender.getConnection(JDBCAppender.java:212)
 at 
 org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender.execute(JDBCAppender.java:175)
 at 
 org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender.flushBuffer(JDBCAppender.java:250)
 at 
 org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender.append(JDBCAppender.java:146)
 at 
 org.apache.log4j.AppenderSkeleton.doAppend(AppenderSkeleton.java:230)
 at 
 org.apache.log4j.helpers.AppenderAttachableImpl.appendLoopOnAppenders(AppenderAttachableImpl.java:65)
 at org.apache.log4j.Category.callAppenders(Category.java:203)
 at org.apache.log4j.Category.forcedLog(Category.java:388)
 at org.apache.log4j.Category.info(Category.java:663)
 at 
 org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager.info(ConfigurationManager.java:828)
 at 
 org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager.loadConfig(ConfigurationManager.java:562)
 at 
 org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager.getProperty(ConfigurationManager.java:113)
 at 
 org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.initialize(DatabaseManager.java:1577)
 at 
 org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.getConnection(DatabaseManager.java:715)
 at org.dspace.core.Context.init(Context.java:105)
 at org.dspace.app.itemexport.ItemExport.main(ItemExport.java:187)
 Error, collection cannot be found: 114
This collection exists (you can test it at 
http://hipatia.uc3m.es:8080/dspace/handle/2316/114).

We have achieved to export a single item correctly, with the same 
command, although most of the error lines also appeared.

Any comment will be helpful. Thanks,

david

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Re: [Dspace-tech] Problems with export of a collection

2007-07-04 Thread Claudia Jürgen
Hi David,

you do not use the right id.
For id you may use the collection id or the handle. I suppose the 
collection with the handle 2316/114 does not have the collection id 114.

Try this:
[yourDSpaceInstall]/bin/dsrun
org.dspace.app.itemexport.ItemExport -t=COLLECTION -i=2316/114
-d=/home/dspace/e-archivo-byd/ -n=1

hope that helps

Claudia Jürgen



David Rodríguez Mateos schrieb:
 Hello,
 
 We have a DSpace 1.4.2 e-archive.
 
 We are trying to export a complete collection with dsrun, but... it does 
 not work. A message Error, collection cannot be found: appears as only 
 answer. The sentence used and the answer were:
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/dspace/bin# ./dsrun 
 org.dspace.app.itemexport.ItemExport --type=COLLECTION --id=114 
 --dest=/home/dspace/e-archivo-byd/ --number=1
 log4j:ERROR Failed to excute sql
 java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver
 at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:545)
 at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:171)
 at 
 org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender.getConnection(JDBCAppender.java:212)
 at 
 org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender.execute(JDBCAppender.java:175)
 at 
 org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender.flushBuffer(JDBCAppender.java:250)
 at 
 org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender.append(JDBCAppender.java:146)
 at 
 org.apache.log4j.AppenderSkeleton.doAppend(AppenderSkeleton.java:230)
 at 
 org.apache.log4j.helpers.AppenderAttachableImpl.appendLoopOnAppenders(AppenderAttachableImpl.java:65)
 at org.apache.log4j.Category.callAppenders(Category.java:203)
 at org.apache.log4j.Category.forcedLog(Category.java:388)
 at org.apache.log4j.Category.info(Category.java:663)
 at 
 org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager.info(ConfigurationManager.java:828)
 at 
 org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager.loadConfig(ConfigurationManager.java:562)
 at 
 org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager.getProperty(ConfigurationManager.java:113)
 at 
 org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.initialize(DatabaseManager.java:1577)
 at 
 org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.getConnection(DatabaseManager.java:715)
 at org.dspace.core.Context.init(Context.java:105)
 at org.dspace.app.itemexport.ItemExport.main(ItemExport.java:187)
 Error, collection cannot be found: 114
 This collection exists (you can test it at 
 http://hipatia.uc3m.es:8080/dspace/handle/2316/114).
 
 We have achieved to export a single item correctly, with the same 
 command, although most of the error lines also appeared.
 
 Any comment will be helpful. Thanks,
 
 david
 

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Re: [Dspace-tech] Searching PDF-scanned documents: Adobe Capture asolution?

2007-07-04 Thread Cory Snavely
Another way to get experience with the quality of Acrobat OCR is to use Acrobat 
Pro, which can do functionally the same thing, with a less batch-oriented 
interface. We ended up using this at a fairly large scale to meet a similar 
need.

We have documentation on preparing PDFs that we supply for submitters, and that 
you may find useful, at

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/html/2027.42/40244/PDF-Best_Practice.html

The section toward the bottom provides instructions on making image PDF files 
searchable.

Cory Snavely
University of Michigan Library IT Core Services
  - Original Message - 
  From: Jennifer Ash 
  To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 6:55 AM
  Subject: [Dspace-tech] Searching PDF-scanned documents: Adobe Capture 
asolution?


  Dear Community Members



  The Water Research Commission (WRC, South Africa) is currently assessing a 
pilot installation of DSpace.

  We want to use DSpace to store, search and retrieve all our WRC research 
reports and Water SA (a scientific publication, 4 issues pa) issues (this is 
the primary goal; other collections will most likely be added over time).

  We are faced with a problem in that most of our older publications are not in 
electronic format and will have to be scanned.

  Scanning and saving as PDF does not provide a full text searchable document 
in DSpace; I've tried it.



  A product, Adobe Capture, is advertised as a 'tool that teams with your 
scanner to convert volumes of paper documents into searchable Adobe Portable 
Document Format (PDF) files'.

  We are keen to investigate this product but there are no trial downloads 
offered by Adobe.

  Do you have any knowledge of this product? Can you advise on a suitable 
tehnology solution for our problem? Our backlog is vast and spans many years, 
so there are loads of documents that need to be scanned.



  I do hope someone can give me advice.



  Kind regards





  Jennifer Ash 
  ..
  Business Systems Manager
  Water Research Commission 
  Private Bag X03 
  GEZINA (Pretoria) 
  0031 
  Tel: (012) 330-9036 / 330-0340 
  Fax: (012) 330-9010 / 331-2565 
  E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 




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[Dspace-tech] DSpace version check

2007-07-04 Thread Gary Browne
Hi

 

I've seen this question posted before but couldn't find any answers to
it.

 

Does anyone know if there is a simple way to tell what version of DSpace
you are running (either from the GUI or command line)?

 

Thanks

Gary

 

 

Gary Browne
Development Programmer
Library IT Services
University of Sydney
Australia
ph: 61-2-9351 5946 

 

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