We have a highly-customised version of the same script which I believe has this
defect fixed.
http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/local/RePEc/dspace2redif.pl
This version of the script also does some quality control checking and squawks
if the metadata doesn't meet the RePEc minimums (which usuall
I would be tempted to see whether the link can be hidden in CSS. If possible
this would be the minimally intrusive method.
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From: Sear
Questions:
(a) is it this particular page which is slow, or is it any first page in a user
session (which just happens to usually be this page) ?
(b) are subsequent reloads of the same page shortly after also slow ?
Slowness is likely to be caused by the Java app (or the entire VM) being
sw
We do HTTPS by putting apache HTTPD in front of tomcat. Tomcat works in
pure-HTTP (but is not accessible from the network) and HTTPD proxies tomcat on
HTTP and HTTPS as necessary.
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Are you suggesting a change of direction for DSpace?
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From: Hilton Gibson
Sent: Tuesday, 31 March 2015 6:51 a.m.
To: dspace-tech
Subject: [Dspace-tech] NEWS: 7 reasons why frameworks are the new programm
You can do fancy RSS slicing and dicing using third party tools such as
https://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
You probably want to start with the Atom variant of RSS.
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From: Nada Abo-Eita
Sent: Tuesday, 24 March 2015 12:07 a
Is dspace running on a corporate or institutional network that has a firewall?
Almost certainly the issue is that there is a firewall / proxy between dspace
and the OAI server.
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From: Ruben
Sent: Wednesd
I would start by checking any maximum file size options in tomcat and/or httpd
that might be sitting in front of it.
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From: Herbert Nguruwe
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015 6:56 p.m.
To: dspace-tech@lists.so
As it says on the home page, that's Mirage 2. Mirage 2 will be release as part
of the up-and-coming DSpace 5 release (see
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+5.0+Status ), which is
expected shortly.
So in short the answer is to wait a couple of weeks for DSpace 5, then upgr
Sounds like things are being cached incorrectly.
What happens when you restart the server and try and access from a browser
install that's never visited the site?
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Sent: Thursday, 1
If you're working on ubuntu / linux I recommend the 'locate' command which will
find all files on a system of a given name.
It's very useful for finding files. It's even more useful when you're editing
the wrong file, to find other files of the same name and thus locate the file
you're meant t
If you fill up the disk, you need to stop all of the tomcat stack and restart
the operating system in such a way that it checks all disks when it restarts.
You then need to rebuild your search indexes and check that in-process files
haven't been damaged.
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The underlying issue is "java.net.UnknownHostException: Apex4.li2k.bcit.ca:
unknown error" check that DNS is working for this host, that
apex4.li2k.bcit.ca resolves, and that it resolves to either 142.232.42.56 or
127.0.0.1
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All 404s are logged. To find them (on linux) use a command like:
grep ' 404 ' /var/log/httpd/access_log
you may need to further restrict to to a specific IP address if you have a lot
of accesses.
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I can tell you right off that some fields have linguistic content.
dc.language.iso, dc.type and dc.date should not have text_lang fields in normal
use. If you're using date formats starting with "the Year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven..." they may do, but if you're doi
> Although my postgresql is in standard configuration running autovacuum
> regularly, I did a manual vacuum full and a reindex database and reindex
> system for the dspace database yesterday. These jobs finished fast without
> problems. The snippet of the logfile above was recorded after this
>
We're not seeing this issue, but if we were I'd be looking at increasing
database timeouts and keepalives; reducing any possible database disk pauses
and networking issues between the two.
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Bear in mind too, that it's often best to rely on things that dspace will
guarantee are always be available, such as dc.date.available and
dc.date.accessioned.
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That's almost certainly a permissions error. Create the directories manually
and make sure that the user tomcat is running as (the user column in 'ps' or
'top') owns the directories and can read and execute all directories between
the ones you create and /
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If I were doing this, I'd be looking to customise a LiveCD to hide the
installation stuff and autostart the tomcat stack.
One issue you're likely to have is that you don't know in advance how much RAM
you'll have available, but the Live CD community may have a fix for that.
https://en.wikipedia
The error message you are seeing is 100% consistent with dspace not being able
to find the correct jars.
There are two main options.
1 They haven't been compiled and copied over to the new build (look for them in
the directories of the new build)
2 The change to add them to the CLASSPATH is
That looks like your DNS host is redirecting unknown domains to a commercial
sales site. If you change your DNS settings you may get a sane answer.
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From: Edna Hagan
Sent: Friday, 31 October 2014 6:48 a.m
A monitoring system sending a HTTP request every ten seconds and closing the
connection before any data is transferred will give you symptoms similar to
this.
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From: Hilton Gibson
Sent: Wednesday, 29 Oct
> I was shooting for always loading over HTTPS, as surely loading ANYTHING we
> can
> over HTTPS should increase our users' security, ie jQuery, images, CSS, etc...
Yes, but only if you're assuming that only humans connect and all of them use
modern browsers with good https support.
Many users
I'd be very interested in whether anyone in knows of any real-world harvesters
of OAI in anything except
oai_dc ?
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From: Scott Carlson
Sent: Tuesday, 28 October 2014 9:53 a.m.
To: dspace-tech@lists.sourc
Isn't the fix for this to use protocol-independent URIs? i.e. the ones that
start with // rather than https:// or http:// ?
Or is there an important secondary issue I'm missing?
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From: Alan Orth
Sent:
Does anyone know about the state of fedora interoperability? The particular
task I'm looking at is a trial migration of some records from dspace to fedora.
I'm aware of the script at https://gist.github.com/acoburn/4278122 but it
hasn't shown much recent activity. Is there anything else I should
>I think you're missing the point. Protecting the content is as you say
>unimportant if it's open content. But the big threat here is to the privacy of
>the patrons. Your viewing history, if it gets into the wrong hands, could
>easily put you or someone you care about at risk.
The big threat fo
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Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2014 8:34 a.m.
To: Stuart Yeates
Cc: Alan Orth; Ivan Masár; dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Recommended TLS cipher suite for sites using HTTPS
+1 to Stuart, my only intention with https is to secure user credentials
14 8:36 p.m.
To: Stuart Yeates; Ivan Masár
Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Recommended TLS cipher suite for sites using HTTPS
Stuart,
Interesting that you consider Mozilla's guidlines too strict.
Bettercrypto.org's are even more so. :)
For reference, I use
I use a verifier to check my config:
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=exams.victoria.ac.nz
Note that my settings are less secure than I might like, because increasing
them causes some platforms (especially mobile platforms) to fail to access the
content, while leaving nothing usef
A couple of us have drawn up a bit of a list of script-testable properties of
repositories that could be used to rate them. We're tried to both avoid
arbitrary judgements and the implication that every repository should meet
every item:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sEDqPS2bfAcbunpjNzHwB5
Hello Germán
It might be more helpful if you told us the problem you're trying to solve.
For example, we have HTTP and HTTPS views of our repository, which are simply
done using apache proxying.
Cheers
stuart
From: Germán Biozzoli [mailto:germanbiozz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 9 Septembe
I'm not sure that knee-jerk reaction to an arbitrary list of bad practice is a
good place to start and seems like a really bad driver for software development.
Maybe we should be talking to our fellow implementers and building on the work
of http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html, http://www.
That could very well be useful for administrators.
Cheers
stuart
-Original Message-
From: Mark H. Wood [mailto:mw...@iupui.edu]
Sent: Thursday, 22 May 2014 12:49 a.m.
To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Google Scholar - not indexed correctly
On Wed, May 21,
I can see that option being useful if you're debugging the database and you
want the database restored as close to possible to the original, to make
diff'ing query plans more useful.
Cheers
stuart
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From: Christian Völker [mailto:c.voel...@gmx.net]
Sent: Tuesday, 20 Ma
We do something similar. We rolled it out a while ago, before the new the new
"Universal" thing. If you look at the source of
http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ there are two google code sections. The first
is our hand-rolled cross-site google code:
http://library.vuw.ac.nz/library/sites/all/the
We restart our application stack (httpd, tomcat, postgres and handle server)
immediately prior to the start of each business day (Mon-Fri).
The timing is so that there are staff around to fix things if the restart
doesn't work cleanly.
We're on linux, so we're using cron for this.
Cheers
stuar
Usually the issue is that news-xmlui.xml is not well formed XML, or perhaps has
the wrong namespace declaration.
Check the first couple of lines in the file look the same as the original
version and validate the file using xmllint or similar.
Cheers
stuart
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From: Gord
[Don't worry about your English; the description of the problem is fine.]
(a)The first thing I do in terms of Java slowness is to repeat the
operation. Often tools such as tomcat can be very slow to start up, but once
they're started they can be much quicker.
(b) The second thing is to m
If browsing to Latin characters works and browsing to CJK characters doesn't,
it's almost certainly a case that either httpd, your connector or tomcat is
confused about whether it should be using UTF-8.
In particular check that you connector has the URIEncoding="UTF-8" attribute.
Search the arc
Do you also have a backup of the SQL database used to store the item metadata?
Exactly what that looks like and where it's stored will depend on the database
you use and how you've been backing it up.
Cheers
stuart
From: Eric Martyns [mailto:martynse...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, 24 January 2014
unity data, workflow data, etc. Web
access stats are stored in solr not the SQL database, for information on
accessing that see
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Solr#Solr-AccessingSolr
A big thanks to LCONZ http://www.lconz.ac.nz/ for funding this meeting
and work.
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different ideas about whitespace normalisation or this is a bug in the
SQL whitespace handling (which google suggests is a challenging topic).
I'm using DSpace 1.8.2 / postgres.
Anyone else seeing this? Am I doing something silly?
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On 11/10/12 20:13, helix84 wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Stuart Yeates
> wrote:
>> We have a pair of feeds from http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ into RePEc (
>> http://ideas.repec.org/s/vuw/vuwecf.html and
>> http://ideas.repec.org/s/vuw/vuwcpf.html ).
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We have a pair of feeds from http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ into RePEc (
http://ideas.repec.org/s/vuw/vuwecf.html and
http://ideas.repec.org/s/vuw/vuwcpf.html ).
I have been wondering whether it's possible to get similar feeds set up for
SSRN http://www.ssrn.com/ Has anyone tried this succes
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URL-parsing methods to extract and operate on only the file part of the
URL. At the very least URL canonicalisation needs to happen here.
Or have I misunderstood something?
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27;d use file-system level
encryption for the entire directory. Depending on your platform this
might be eCryptfs (linux), BitLocker (Microsoft) or FileVault (MacOS).
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> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 16:43, Wendy J Bossons wrote:
>> The 10,000 dollar question - Is it possible to allow CDATA output in the
>> head of a DSpace document? I want to add some javascript that contains an&
>> and cannot get the source output to include CDATA ta
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> Eliminating 'A's in medical research databases is a problem. Vitamin A
> is the obvious example, but there are many other occurrences of 'A' as
> an important, non-trivial term in a n
dspace.cfg?
We're running 1.6.2.
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index messed up?
You don't provide a link to your repository, so I can't check, but
almost certainly the culprit is stemming. See:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Stemming
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anization's shibboleth service, I'm
> asking if somebody has seen something like this and could this be a problem
> of DSpace? To me it seems some kind on session problem.
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chnical skills, I'd prefer options that involve XSLT to
those involving Java :)
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issue that also affects some more obscure natural
languages / scripts (we run into it with Linear B).
See: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1689
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a PDF is a
good and valid PDF. Going from a file on the disk to a database record
I'm not too sure of.
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anges i need to make to add a type , when we submit a document.
That will largely depend on whether you're using the .jsp or the
XML/UI/Manakin interface, since they do this differently. The version of
dspace you're using is also relevant.
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ng the files, rather
than from within the browser). If they all go to the same browser,
that's your default, if they don't, consult someone who understands
application settings on your platform.
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column of
the "metadatavalue" table, which is where all these fields are stored.
[I didn't see your response on the list, even though you cc'd the list,
following up to the list in case other's are having these problems.]
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anything too stupid. Looking at the mailing lists, there's a post
blaming the issue on the DatabaseManager and suggesting a fix
http://www.mail-archive.com/dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04163.html
Is this still the current status?
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