[Dspace-tech] Adoption of Open Source Software in Libraries: Perceptions of LIS Community

2007-08-21 Thread Muhammad Rafiq
*Apology for cross posting. Dear LIS professionals * Good Morning Hope my mail will find you in the best of health and spirits. I am conducting a research on the perceptions of LIS professionals about Adoption of Open Source Software in Libraries. The questionnaire is available at

[Dspace-tech] Problem with opening pdf-files

2007-08-21 Thread Mika Stenberg
Im having problems when opening some pdf-files. Mainly this occurs with Mozilla browser, but it seems that the attribute 'sequence=1' causes the browser to hang or at least stop loading the pdf. Some items open fine when I remove the sequence=1 part of the url, but some dont even with that.

[Dspace-tech] Feedback-function problems in 1.4.2

2007-08-21 Thread Pekka Savela
Hi y'all, I've encoutered an odd behaviour in our dspace install... we upgraded from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2 last month. I recall testing every function out - also feedback form - and everything seemed to be fine. Well, today I was told that clicking the feedback-link now prompts for login, and even

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace concurrent user access

2007-08-21 Thread Christian Voelker
Hello, if I boil down what all these logs point me to, these are the lines that remain: Am 21.08.2007 um 05:56 schrieb Jayan Chirayath Kurian: (1) The Catalina.log shows the following INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was

Re: [Dspace-tech] Feedback-function problems in 1.4.2

2007-08-21 Thread Pekka Savela
Hello Jayan, Cheers!! Looks like there was too much info on that URL parameter in config, fixing it resolved the issue. Wish it would always be as simple as this! :) Many thanks again! regards, Pekka 2007/8/21, Jayan Chirayath Kurian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! I think the dspace – config

Re: [Dspace-tech] Feedback-function problems in 1.4.2

2007-08-21 Thread Andrea Bollini
Jayan Chirayath Kurian ha scritto: Hi! I think the dspace - config file dspace URL parameter value has some effects on this He is right. The feedback function now deny access from spiders comparing refeerer header with dspace hostname (set in dspace.cfg - dspace.hostname check for

Re: [Dspace-tech] using ImportItem tool with other metadata schema

2007-08-21 Thread Kyle Brentnell
Yes it is possible. If you created (in DSpace) a schema called myschema with an element myelement and myqualifier the dublin_core.xml (yes the file name ironically has dublin core in it) file content would look like: dublin_core dcvalue schema=myschema element=myelement

Re: [Dspace-tech] Coding special characters for batch ingestion

2007-08-21 Thread Robert Tansley
XML-encoded UTF-8 should be fine. On 21/08/07, Mark H. Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're loading a large number of items obtained from another organization and the metadata they have provided often contains interesting characters which are rejected by the ItemImport tool. Naked ampersands

[Dspace-tech] Using metadatavalue.metadata_field_id to change dc assignments from dc.contributor.author to dc.creator

2007-08-21 Thread Sunyeen Pai
Hi folks, Our library wishes to start using dc.creator instead of dc.contributor.author for author information. (We may extend this to dc.creator.personalname and .corporatename.) One of the tasks I must accomplish is to change our existing 150 records. I have noticed, in the metadatavalue