[Dspace-tech] Customized metadata display for non-dc elements

2009-08-14 Thread Shane Beers
! Shane -- Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University sbe...@gmu.edu http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial

Re: [Dspace-tech] messages.xml changes not being reflected

2009-08-07 Thread Shane Beers
worked correctly. It's a conundrum that is frustrating me quite a bit. Thanks again. -- Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University sbe...@gmu.edu http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 On Aug 7, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Williams, Steven D wrote: > Shane, > Not sure if

Re: [Dspace-tech] messages.xml changes not being reflected

2009-08-07 Thread Shane Beers
you. Thanks! Shane -- Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University sbe...@gmu.edu http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Williams, Steven D wrote: > Hello Shane, > DId you change the following line in message.xml... > Dspace/ > Manaki

Re: [Dspace-tech] messages.xml changes not being reflected

2009-08-07 Thread Shane Beers
text from somewhere else than messages.xml I know that I'm very confused about where the very large font styling for the headings is coming from, because it's not the style.css file. Thanks! Shane -- Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University sbe...@

[Dspace-tech] messages.xml changes not being reflected

2009-08-06 Thread Shane Beers
Am I missing something obvious? Thanks! Shane -- Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University sbe...@gmu.edu http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting -

Re: [Dspace-tech] Error with dspace_migrate

2009-04-20 Thread Shane Beers
I'm actually not certain, but their handle information is still in the dublin_core.xml, thus requiring me to run dspace_migrate. Thank you for the reply, however. -- Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University sbe...@gmu.edu http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742

[Dspace-tech] Error with dspace_migrate

2009-04-20 Thread Shane Beers
dublin_core.xml.orig file to dublin_core.xml, move the successfully processed files somewhere else, and cross my fingers that it will work the next time. For over 1000 items, this is INCREDIBLY tedious and just seems like it shouldn't be happening. Any idea what's going on? Thanks! Shane -- S

Re: [Dspace-tech] citations, journals, volumes, issues, articles and dublin core

2009-02-23 Thread Shane Beers
y want to get used to being shocked and surprised at many of the things related to digital libraries. I hope this helps. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University sbe...@gmu.edu http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 On Feb 23, 2009, at 2:43 AM, Andrew Marlow wrote:

[Dspace-tech] Bug (?) opening a PDF in IR via firefox

2009-01-29 Thread Shane Beers
27mb, so that could potentially be the issue. It works fine from my mac and firefox browser, however. Is this a problem anyone else has run into? If so, is it something that can be "fixed" from DSpace's end? Thanks. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George M

Re: [Dspace-tech] Google bots and web crawlers

2009-01-14 Thread Shane Beers
-by-subject* Disallow: /dspace/handle/1920/*/items-by-author* Disallow: /dspace/bitstream/* Disallow: /dspace/image/* Disallow: /dspace/html/* Disallow: /dspace/simple-search* This likely would live in your tomcat directory. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University

Re: [Dspace-tech] searching, PDFs, HTML and XML

2008-12-12 Thread Shane Beers
ms as an admin after they are already in the archive. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University sbe...@gmu.edu http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 On Dec 12, 2008, at 3:44 AM, Andrew Marlow wrote: > Hello, > > Now that I have loaded a few PDFs into my DS

Re: [Dspace-tech] Week 5: Submission process

2008-09-15 Thread Shane Beers
sting this this week and will share it as soon as I know it's working. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 On Sep 15, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Dorothea Salo wrote: > This week's question is about

Re: [Dspace-tech] Week 4: Bitstream types

2008-09-08 Thread Shane Beers
d to take place on the textual document end. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 On Sep 8, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Dorothea Salo wrote: > I know I'm seriously late on last week's chat summary;

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

2008-09-04 Thread Shane Beers
Repository Certification program. Certainly I'm asking for a perfect solution, but that's what you were hoping for, right? Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 On Sep 1, 2008, at 6:04 PM, Dorothea

Re: [Dspace-tech] Excel Batch Import Tool

2008-07-28 Thread Shane Beers
This looks very interesting... I can't wait to check it out! Thanks much. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 On Jul 28, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Thomas A McGee wrote: Speaking of making batch-impo

Re: [Dspace-tech] Indexing All DC fields in DC Metadata Registry

2008-07-17 Thread Shane Beers
Christina: You can read how to do this in the DSpace How-To Guide, found here: http://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/1043 The specific section you would look at is Modify Search Fields. Good luck! Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Dspace-tech] Exporting non-DC metadata via OAI

2008-06-09 Thread Shane Beers
"ListMetadataFormats" is made, only OAI_DC is shown. Is there a hack for including other metadata namespaces along with the OAI export? Thanks in advance! Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mars.gmu.edu 70

Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-08 Thread Shane Beers
Here is a nice post from Dorothea about using the batch importer: http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2008/01/07/the-dspace-batch-importer/ And yes, you can add dublin core metadata through the importing process! Shane -- Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason

Re: [Dspace-tech] Regarding Video Content Support in DSpace

2008-04-02 Thread Shane Beers
s for preview or viewing, and the primary bistream can still be the video file. There is really no reason to not include it, and simply use a link in another metadata field or description to provide a streaming version. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason Unive

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Junk released by User action] Re: inconsistent log output

2008-03-21 Thread Shane Beers
Dorothea: did my last message to the list not go through? I hope it did... However, we are still having a very similar, if not the same issue. We are hoping a move to 1.5, along with a change to Tomcat from JBoss, will solve it! Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George

Re: [Dspace-tech] inconsistent log output

2008-03-20 Thread Shane Beers
server, and are hopeful this will solve the issue. However, if it doesn't, I'm going to be even more frustrated! :) If you determine what's going on please let us know! Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mars.gmu.edu 703

Re: [Dspace-tech] Manakin Theme Tutorial

2008-02-29 Thread Shane Beers
Thanks very much for this thorough guide! I'll definitely be using it once we go to 1.5. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 On Feb 28, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Scott Phillips wrote: Everyone, Alexey

Re: [Dspace-tech] Logs not functioning correctly

2008-02-21 Thread Shane Beers
What's strange is that the [dspace]/config/log4j-handle- plugin.properties file clearly is saying that it should write to it's own log file, but it appears that the dspace.log file is being populated with handle server messages. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian Ge

[Dspace-tech] Logs not functioning correctly

2008-02-20 Thread Shane Beers
ossibly get the logs functioning correctly, please let me know. I've attached the log4j.properties file, as well. log4j.properties Description: Binary data Thanks for the help! Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mars.

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dublin Core Citations

2008-02-08 Thread Shane Beers
serve users for the long-term. (Soapboxing time.) Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 On Feb 8, 2008, at 5:45 AM, Robin Taylor wrote: > I have a question for all the librarians and metadata experts out

Re: [Dspace-tech] Custom metadata submission forms

2008-01-31 Thread Shane Beers
You can set this on a per-collection basis, however. It's just kind of kludgy... Directly under the webui.itemdisplay.default = section, you will see a section that is commented out: # Specify which collections use which views by Handle. # # webui.itemdisplay.

Re: [Dspace-tech] Custom metadata submission forms

2008-01-31 Thread Shane Beers
which will change how the title is displayed when browsing. You will probably also want to change the way the indexing works, to use your title element instead of dc.title. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-374

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace-tech Digest, Vol 21, Issue 55

2008-01-22 Thread Shane Beers
Hey guys, only two more weeks of this! Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 On Jan 22, 2008, at 3:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Estimado(a) seƱor(a): [EMAIL PROTECTED] En estos momentos me encuentro

[Dspace-tech] Sudden authorization error during License Grant

2008-01-18 Thread Shane Beers
ffect the license granting section, but I don't understand how, as administrator, I would have no issue granting licenses but the user who has authorization to submit items to the collection would run into problems if something was damaged/messed up due to the embargo code add-on. Any ide

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Junk released by Allow List] Custom Metadata Question

2008-01-18 Thread Shane Beers
This might be a dumb question, but did you add the metadata elements through the Metadata Registry? If so, are you using the correct schema name and element in your input forms entries? Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Dspace-tech] Watermarking images on-the-fly

2008-01-10 Thread Shane Beers
visible watermark. However, I would like this to take place on-the- fly, meaning the image was stored without a watermark. This is technically feasible, but I'm not sure how it would be integrated into the DSpace code. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason Un

[Dspace-tech] Watermarking images on-the-fly

2008-01-09 Thread Shane Beers
/article/watermark-images-php I'm not sure if something like this could be done within DSpace, but it would certainly be helpful for my institution in some cases. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 703-993

Re: [Dspace-tech] Pdf protected

2007-11-29 Thread Shane Beers
Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 703-993-3742 On Nov 29, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:51:15PM -0500, Shane Beers wrote: >> Additionally, I believe that the mechanism DSpace employs to scan the >&g

Re: [Dspace-tech] Pdf protected

2007-11-28 Thread Shane Beers
that PDF security issues were of such detriment both technically and educationally, and they are no longer offered as options. I'm trying hard not to soapbox here, but hey, what are user-group mailing lists for if not, at least partly, for that? Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Libr

Re: [Dspace-tech] streaming video?

2007-11-26 Thread Shane Beers
uld avoid these issues by storing all the bitstreams within the repository itself. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 703-993-3742 On Nov 26, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Jason Stirnaman wrote: > Naveed, > > We're doing something similar,

Re: [Dspace-tech] Creative Commons issues EVEN AFTER recent fixes

2007-11-20 Thread Shane Beers
That was my thought as well, some escape code was throwing the PC for a loop with a poorly formed URL. Anyone with deeper insight feel free to chime in. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 703-993-3742 On Nov 20, 2007, at 4:49 PM

[Dspace-tech] Creative Commons issues EVEN AFTER recent fixes

2007-11-20 Thread Shane Beers
?license_url=http%3A//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 The only strange thing I have noticed is the http%3A// in the URL, but I'm unable to determine where that URL comes from and why it wouldn't cause an issue on the Mac. Ideas? Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian

Re: [Dspace-tech] adding a field

2007-11-14 Thread Shane Beers
This requires modifying your Messages.properties. This is a file that anyone doing customizations to DSpace start getting to know quite well. You can read about modifying this file (and doing a lot of other stuff) in the How-To guide. You can snag it here: https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/214

Re: [Dspace-tech] ETDs & Dspace - Best Practices

2007-11-13 Thread Shane Beers
ditionally, you may wish to modify your DSpace installation to have an embargo feature if your institution offers that to students. I have written up instructions on the DSpace wiki for adding that feature. We are just getting rolling with ETDs here at Mason, but they are an obvious fit fo

Re: [Dspace-tech] customizing Dspace and future updates

2007-10-26 Thread Shane Beers
bversion for our local installation, but should eventually adapt those instructions for a larger audience. It's one of those things where there was so much trial-and-error involved in learning the process that it's difficult to go back and remember exactly what I did to overcome mistake

Re: [Dspace-tech] Advanced search problems

2007-10-24 Thread Shane Beers
no sense, because the nightly script just runs the same index-all that I run manually. Any ideas? Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 703-993-3742 On Oct 15, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Tim Donohue wrote: Shane, That is odd... Have you dou

[Dspace-tech] Follow up to "setting up DSpace for embargo"

2007-10-17 Thread Shane Beers
Thanks in advance! Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 703-993-3742 - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems

Re: [Dspace-tech] Advanced search problems

2007-10-12 Thread Shane Beers
Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, as I would feel pretty dumb if that was the problem) that was just a typo on my own part in the email - not in dspace.cfg I'm still at a loss... Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 703-993-37

Re: [Dspace-tech] Advanced search problems

2007-10-11 Thread Shane Beers
In case it wasn't obvious, I meant to follow up: And then added in the appropriate element in Messages.properties, rebuilt with rebuilt, reindexed, etc. No idea where that sentence went. Thanks again. On Oct 11, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Shane Beers wrote: I am having issues with my s

[Dspace-tech] Advanced search problems

2007-10-11 Thread Shane Beers
ll 3 search boxes switch to "Degree Discipline" (the term I used in Messages.properties). This is just something I noticed that may help in a diagnosis. I'm not certain if I'm missing something or not, but I would really like this search index to function correctly. S

[Dspace-tech] Any way to not display blank fields and dashes when extending webui.itemlist.columns

2007-10-09 Thread Shane Beers
extra spaces and dashes if the field doesn't have data (or doesn't exist) in that item." Maybe I'm missing an obvious solution. This is why I'm asking for any assistance. Thanks in advance! Shane Beers Digital Repository Ser

[Dspace-tech] Custom metadata form linking to community rather than collections

2007-09-27 Thread Shane Beers
a new collection is created within the community, can the form be attached to the community? Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 703-993-3742 - This SF.net email is sponsor

Re: [Dspace-tech] ETD-MS management

2007-09-21 Thread Shane Beers
nclude it in the dc elements - I don't think it's even possible, as you can't have an element and more than one qualifier (at least from my knowledge) in a schema, so dc.thesis.degree.grantor, for example, would be impossible to even enter into the registry. Shane Beers Digit

Re: [Dspace-tech] Extra ">" characters spontaneously littering pages

2007-09-20 Thread Shane Beers
We were unable to diagnose the exact issue that caused the problem, but a server reboot fixed the issue. Ah, technology. Thanks to those that tried to help. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 703-993-3742 On Sep 19, 2007, at 10:35 AM

[Dspace-tech] Extra ">" characters spontaneously littering pages

2007-09-19 Thread Shane Beers
dn't change a thing on our production server and I'm kind of at a loss. If anyone has any ideas please feel free to let me know! Thanks much. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 703-993-37