Kia ora koutou,
We’re on DSpace 3.1 using xmlui.
We’ve got some items in our repository which need the PD (public domain)
license attached, but don’t want students to try to attach this license when
submitting a thesis.
1) Is there a way to specify which of the CC license options appear
Hi Monika,
We do this manually because we want to make sure that only full-text papers
with appropriate copyright / publisher permissions get made public (and do some
basic metadata quality control). So our process is that everything is pushed
into a non-public "Symplectic" collection. In
Kia ora koutou,
Our solr statistics files are large and growing, and similarly our dspace/log
directory. We were looking at compressing the dspace.log files to save space
but understand that:
a) The stat-monthly cronjob needs the dspace log files for the latest
month, but
b) The
Oh awesome, that will let us save a lot of space indeed! Thanks very much!
Deborah
From: Andrea Schweer [mailto:schw...@waikato.ac.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, 2 March 2016 4:04 p.m.
To: Fitchett, Deborah <deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz>;
dspace-tech@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [dspace-tech]
...@waikato.ac.nz]
Sent: Tuesday, 19 July 2016 4:27 p.m.
To: Fitchett, Deborah <deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz>
Cc: DSpace Technical Support <dspace-tech@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [dspace-tech] Modifying Creative Commons license name
Hi Deborah,
On 07/19/2016 03:53 PM, Fitchett, Deborah
Hi all,
We’re on DSpace 3.1. When adding a Creative Commons license to an item, DSpace
adds the license name straight from the API, eg “Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0
International”. This is obviously clear in the context of CC’s own API, but is
mildly ambiguous in the general environment, so
Hi all,
I’m taking baby steps to https everywhere and right now looking at handles in
DSpace. Until now we’ve assumed an http default, so the permalink for each
record has been stored/displayed as an http handle, and the handle in turn
links to the record through http. I’d like to change both,
Kia ora all,
I’ve been poking at the OpenSearch functionality and changed up a number of the
parameters in dspace.cfg that seem to be used to create the metadata in
http://[our.dspace.com]/open-search/description.xml However despite a Tomcat
restart which typically picks up config changes,
lifier in all
cases.
Hope this helps
Claudia Jürgen
Am 31.08.2016 um 23:19 schrieb Andrea Schweer:
> Hi Deborah,
>
> On 08/31/2016 02:43 PM, Fitchett, Deborah wrote:
> > We’ve noticed that the browse search in our DSpace instance doesn’t
> > take into account stop
Hi Hayden,
I’m someone who can’t really change java files and recompile, but what I do
know is Javascript and when all you’ve got is a hammer everything’s a nail. :-)
We were faced with a similar issue of the submissions page getting very long
and unmanageable for our repository admin staff so
Done, thanks! I’ll do javascript hackery in the meantime. :-)
Deborah
From: Andrea Schweer [mailto:schw...@waikato.ac.nz]
Sent: Monday, 26 September 2016 11:19 a.m.
To: Fitchett, Deborah <deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz>;
dspace-tech@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [dspace-tech] Drop-dow
Kia ora koutou,
We’re testing an upgrade from 3.1 to 5.5 (both xmlui) in sandbox.
When we go to move an item from one collection to another, the drop-down list
orders them alphabetically by collection but displays the full community >
collection > collection path – this combination is
: Wednesday, 9 November 2016 10:58 a.m.
To: Fitchett, Deborah <deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz>; DSpace Technical
Support <dspace-tech@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [dspace-tech] RE: Embargo settings
Hi,
On 11/09/2016 10:22 AM, Fitchett, Deborah wrote:
So from some more poking and
Hi all,
I’ve been looking at our logs too much recently for various reasons and am keen
to resolve underlying causes of the really common errors appearing in
dspace.log.[datestamp] in order to a) reduce storage required but mostly b)
make them slightly more navigable when a *real* error
Hi all,
We’ve just upgraded from v3.1 to v5.5 (both XMLUI, no change of theme). We ran
a SOLR indexing job after the upgrade but haven’t yet turned on cronjobs.
We’ve got a collection where access to both the collection and all the items in
it is restricted to a small group of admin staff
Hello Javier,
This is probably referring to the code in your
theme/lib/xsl/core/page-structure.xsl – look for the “cc-license” template and
check all the variables to make sure they’re selecting the right
element/qualifier as appropriate.
(There’s also a bit of code in your
We’ve had the same error message for a while – it happens whenever our cron
runs dspace stats-util -o (we don’t run dspace stats-util -i). In our case it’s
always for ‘statistics-2013’ though we’ve got several other cores so don’t know
why it hates that one in particular.
I don’t think it’s
Dear Massimiliano,
Our solution may not work for you: for us, we don’t need to embargo the
metadata, only the full-text. So we don’t embargo the item at all, we only
embargo the bitstream. We also add a display note to the bitstream which
includes the embargo end-date.
Deborah
From:
Kia ora koutou,
We've got a collection of items in DSpace (5.6 XMLUI) that are restricted to a
small group of content administrators. For Reasons, we may need to run a batch
process to download the full-text for each of them - ideally from another
server.
We have the direct URL for each of
I don’t know enough to know if these are relevant, but differences between your
config and ours are:
· Our authentication-ldap.object_context and
authentication-ldap.search_context don’t have the slashes, just commas, eg
OU=TEST,DC=prod,DC=local
· Our
vital
for us.
Our fall-back will be to follow Claudia’s suggestion of adjusting the Item
Withdrawn page and using the metadata to point to the new item.
Deborah
From: Tim Donohue
Sent: Friday, 15 June 2018 2:42 AM
To: Fitchett, Deborah
Cc: dspace-tech@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [dspace
Kia ora koutou,
This seems to be my week for getting so close and yet so far….
We’re running v5.8 and Mirage2 and have got thumbnails beautifully displaying
for most items, both in the web interface and the OAI feed.
The exception is where items have:
· More than one ORIGINAL
e have two ldap servers, one for students, and the other for faculty.
On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 7:58:04 PM UTC-4, Fitchett, Deborah wrote:
Hi all,
The main thing to consider in choosing between the two options will be what
you’re trying to achieve: identify individual users (eg so they can
Hi all,
The main thing to consider in choosing between the two options will be what
you’re trying to achieve: identify individual users (eg so they can submit
items under their own name) or just grant groups of people access to specific
collections?
EZproxy/the IP auth module won’t do the
I haven’t seen that particular problem but I’d check into the item-view.xsl vs
the item-list.xsl for the code that creates the thumbnail – it sounds like the
two have slightly different logic.
Deborah
From: dspace-tech@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of
Alex Fletcher
Sent: Thursday, 8 November
way to be sure is to try…
Deborah
From: Alex Fletcher
Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2018 7:57 AM
To: Fitchett, Deborah
Cc: DSpace Technical Support
Subject: Re: [dspace-tech] 5.10 Discover/Search showing final thumbnail, not
first
Really delayed followup, as other priorities came up (typical
Another use case is for sandbox/development systems where email functionality
has been turned off.
Deborah
From: dspace-tech@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of
librarysystems.t...@gmail.com
Sent: Saturday, 26 January 2019 10:07 AM
To: DSpace Technical Support
Subject: [dspace-tech] How to change
If you go to https://repository.wpunj.edu/oai?verb=Identify and look at the
default context options you can get a bit further forward seeing what works and
what doesn’t.
It’s happily bringing up the list of sets, and the list of metadata formats
(including oai_dc) but not the list of records
You don’t *need* to create a custom theme, but it may be tidier to do so and
it’s not hard to.
.scss files are designed to work with SASS and Compass. If you have those
installed, then you make changes in the .scss file(s) and run the compass
compile command to get them compiled into the final
Kia ora Christian,
The technical term for what you want to do is putting the keywords in “title
case”.
I’d suggest:
1) exporting the records
2) making the changes in something like Excel (see eg
Hi Shaun,
Thanks heaps for your suggestion – we’ve finally (busy week!) had a chance to
actually try it and success. ☺
Deborah
From: dspace-tech@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of
Shaun donovan
Sent: Thursday, 4 July 2019 5:49 PM
To: Fitchett, Deborah ;
dspace-tech@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re
I don’t think DSpace really supports metadata to that level of
multi-dimensionality.
Metadata on an item in DSpace is meant to directly describe that item. So for a
property, you could have property.seller and property.buyer – or for more
granularity, you could have:
property.seller.name
If your client is only storing metadata (data in the various fields) then
DSpace is a bit overkill. But if they’re uploading documents relating to the
property then DSpace could make sense.
Whether you rename similar fields or create a separate schema really depends on
what’s easier for you
Kia ora,
We’ve got a situation where:
· we need to rebuild our keyword index;
· /dspace index-discovery -b takes some unknown multiple of days; and
· we have a backup outage each midnight, interrupting the reindex
part-way through.
The obvious option is to turn off
Kia ora Jason,
To customise the community banner, you should be able to login to the website
as an administrator, navigate to the community, then in the menu click “Edit
Community” and you’ll have some options there.
For the thumbnail image on the item it depends what you want to do and what
, 20 February 2020 11:39 PM
To: Fitchett, Deborah
Cc: dspace-tech@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [dspace-tech] Twitter cards and open graph in page-structure.xsl
Dear Deborah,
This is a fantastic idea! I don't know why I never thought of it. Your work is
a great starting point... I will play
Kia ora koutou,
Has anyone played around with Twitter cards and/or Open Graph with Dspace? The
goal being that, if someone tweets a link to an item in the repository, Twitter
(or Facebook or whoever) automatically displays a little preview of the item’s
title, thumbnail etc. This seems likely
We’re running a (customised) Mirage2 theme:
https://researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz/
I can’t remember all the differences but one key one for us is that Mirage2
uses .scss files for styles (Sass with Compass). This has some development
advantages since you can use eg a single variable for your
Kia ora koutou,
We're on 5.8 XMLUI (Mirage2) with an integration with Symplectic Elements -
most of our new items are deposited via Elements, and some come across with an
embargo specified from that system. They then sit in our backlogged submissions
queue until we get time to check and
Kia ora,
Ah, got it! No, I don’t think there’s a list of blocks for copy/pasting,
because the code depends on what you want to display and when you want to
display it.
For example, the item type block you paste you first has the i18n label (in
English, probably this will display “Type” in
Hi,
Yes, you can do this – at least in 5.8 XMLUI Mirage2 we are.
We’ve first got variables:
(group)
(individual)
,
<https://repository.seafdec.org.ph/metadata/handle/10862/2142/mets.xml>
Thanks again in advance and best regards!
euler
On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 11:44:13 AM UTC+8, Fitchett, Deborah wrote:
Hi,
Yes, you can do this – at least in 5.8 XMLUI Mirage2 we are.
We’ve first g
Kia ora,
1. The fields depend on what fields you’re using in your DSpace. You can
see the list by logging into the web interface as administrator, then in the
menu look under Registries > Metadata.
2. You don’t need to restart the server after any xsl changes – they take
effect
Hi,
You’ll need to edit the relevant xsl file(s) in
/dspace/config/crosswalks/oai/metadataFormats
You’ll then need to update the OAI index:
· cd dspace/bin
· ./dspace oai import -c -v
· ./dspace oai import clean-cache
And then your setup may vary but for us we have to wait
Kia ora all,
DSpace 5.8 XMLUI - Is there somewhere where we can configure the behaviour when
a user logs out? We're currently getting a "The page isn't redirecting
properly" error (and I haven't been paying attention enough to know if this is
new or old behaviour.) Looks like a series of 302
Look in your /dspace/config/crosswalks/oai folder.
Edit xoai.xml – you’ll see an existing context, just copy the same syntax with
a different name. This will create the new context, though currently it’s
identical to the existing context. You’ll have to change whatever filters /
metadata
We made these changes (both in config and metadata) and haven’t seen any
downsides, so I say go for it. ☺
Deborah
From: dspace-tech@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of
Jose Blanco
Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2021 2:36 AM
To: DSpace Technical Support
Subject: [dspace-tech] http and https in handle
I
Do you need to use direct queries to the database? Even if you are on the same
server it might be simpler to use the REST API (see documentation at
https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/REST+API) and if you ever might split
the Wordpress site onto a different server it would be more robust.
I’ve only interacted with DSpace’s RESTful interface via another software
integration so can’t help much. But I *think*(1) that if you’re only dealing
with open access collections anyway, then you mightn’t need to worry about any
authentication stuff at all, and then you can probably just make
Perhaps you have a multi-step workflow set up? We have a two-step workflow, so
two approvals are required before it goes live.
Deborah
From: dspace-tech@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of
Michel Montenegro
Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2023 8:34 AM
To: DSpace Technical Support
Subject:
Kia ora,
That feature isn’t available in out-of-the-box DSpace. Possibly a plugin might
exist (though I haven’t heard of one) or you may be able to develop one
yourself.
But DSpace by default is a repository to store materials in whatever format –
it doesn’t focus on displaying the materials.
In DSpace 7 any items stuck in workflow pools should show up in the Administer
Workflow tab which shows “all active workflows”. Currently the only options
from there are to delete the item or send it back to the submitter (see
https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/1970 requesting
Kia ora,
When editing the item view page in a DSpace 5 theme, we could make use of mets
“RightsDeclaration” metadata which included rights:Username, listing what
individuals/groups had access, and rights:Context, which we could pull auth
policy start dates from. This meant we could have
DSpace by default has a user group called “Administrator”. So if you want to
give someone admin access, you can either:
1. Put the user directly into the Administrator group; or
2. Put the user in another group (like the group you created) then put that
group into the Administrator group
Everyone who accesses the DSpace site is automatically assigned to the
Anonymous group while they’re there. So if a community/item has permissions of
Anonymous READ, then anyone visiting the site can access it, whether they’re
logged in or not.
What you’re describing isn’t possible because
Hi,
The functionality you’re creating sounds interesting but it’s important to be
aware that it’s not really how DSpace is designed to work.
It’s open source software so of course you can absolutely do this! But:
1. It’s likely that no-one else has done what you’re doing before so there
Kia ora Tim,
Thanks for all that information! I did fear it might be an intentional decision
for security reasons, because that will rightly make people hesitate to change
it too much.
Issue 2413 looks promising to at least cover embargoes – I’ve just added a
comment there to note that a
Kia ora koutou,
We have a bunch of files that we need to keep for auditing purposes – in some
cases to do with copyright permissions, in others proof that a conference did
actually take place – but we don’t want the files or even the filenames to be
visible to users as the filenames weren’t
When we (v5.8 XMLUI Mirage2) export a CSV from Batch Metadata Editing, we can
get multiple columns for each metadata field due to different “text_lang” codes
being assigned = eg dc.title, dc.title[], dc.title[en], dc.title[en_US],
dc.title[*], etc. This is partially described at
Thanks, it sounds like there’s no control over the language codes from the
Elements end, so a regular script seems like the easiest way to go.
Deborah
From: dspace-tech@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of
al...@vt.edu
Sent: Friday, 22 April 2022 4:39 am
To: DSpace Technical Support
Subject:
Yes, oai_dc.xsl is what you’d want to edit. There’s some basic documentation
at
https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/OAI+2.0+Server#OAI2.0Server-Add/RemoveMetadataFields
Deborah
From: dspace-tech@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of
Sushant Virdi
Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2023 1:22 AM
To:
' (ie items only).
(Resource types:
https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC5x/Business+Logic+Layer#BusinessLogicLayer-Constants
)
Deborah
From: Anne Lawrence
Sent: Wednesday, 27 April 2022 12:34 am
To: Fitchett, Deborah
Cc: DSpace Technical Support
Subject: Re: [dspace-tech] Re: Where
Kia ora Joshua,
I can confirm your posts have come through to the list. You might need to check
your delivery settings on Google Groups, or possibly your institution’s spam
filter.
To (tentatively) answer your question, while I haven’t yet worked with DSpace
7, at least up to DSpace 5 I’m not
Kia ora,
In v5.8 XMLUI – I’ve edited the maxListIdentifiersSize value in xoai.xml,
restarted Tomcat, and run the import and clean-cache commands – to no effect.
I’ve also previously noticed that sometimes when making edits to the OAI feed,
we need to wait overnight for them to take effect (ie
It’s useful to include the version number you’re using. I’m *guessing* (based
on a file you mention which I don’t recognise) that you’re on 7.x.
I don’t have enough familiarity with that version yet to be able to answer, but
my suspicion is that DSpace doesn’t have the ability to use the
Kia ora koutou,
Before upgrading to DSpace 7 I thought I’d take the opportunity to see if there
was any old data we could clean up a bit (we’re currently in DSpace 5.8 – it
seems easiest to do it while I’m still familiar with the database structure and
also avoid migrating stuff only to delete
Not an authoritative answer but my initial thoughts are:
* You should probably change the prefix back so that any new items are
created correctly
* If items created prior to the upgrade have been displaying broken links,
then changing the prefix would probably fix them
* For items
Please be aware that this is a community of volunteers. Most of us have our own
jobs that keep us busy already. The mailing list lets us ask questions if we’re
stuck, and answer questions if we know the answer. But if we don’t know the
answer there’s no obligation for us to try anyway. (This
Kia ora,
In DSpace 5.x we can edit the config file to specify certain metadata fields
that can only be viewed by an Administrator, eg
metadata.hide.dc.description.provenance = true
We’ve belatedly realised that this means literally in the Administrator group –
ie if someone’s instead in a
Hi Tim,
That’s a shame, but understandable! Many thanks for the confirmation.
Deborah
From: 'Tim Donohue' via DSpace Technical Support
Sent: Saturday, 22 April 2023 2:44 am
To: DSpace Technical Support
Subject: [dspace-tech] Re: Hiding item metadata fields
Caution: This email originated from
It’s not clear what you’re trying to solve. You’ve provided a screenshot of
what you see, but without knowing what you *want* to see it’s hard to know how
to achieve it.
My *guess* is that you’re using a hierarchical controlled vocabulary so when
you’ve applied a term to an item, it’s saved
You mention you’re using a multi-step process, so let me describe how our
two-step process has been working for me in testing 7.4, in case that shines
any light on your case:
* The item is submitted.
* It shows in the workflow task list as “Waiting for controller”
* I claim it – it
Kia ora,
I’ve been doing some data tidying in DSpace 5.8 (xmlui) in preparation for an
upcoming migration to 7.4 – mostly directly in the database. A few days later I
was alerted to a record
https://researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz/handle/10182/16202 which isn’t showing up
either by searching on
Thanks very much, Tim!
I’ve checked permissions for item/bundles/bitstreams are all Anon READ. The
metadata looks normal too including the Really Important fields like dc.type.
When I try index-discovery -i [itemid] I get "Unrecognized option: -i"
But the dSpace log from when we ran
One extra note from our experience: if you’re on an older version of Elements
6.9.0, you’ll want to patch to the latest 6.9.0 patch release to avoid an issue
with DSpace 7 deposit licence handling.
Deborah
From: 'Ben Heartland' via DSpace Technical Support
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 3:53
Hello,
Creating new tables and endpoints is only possible if you know how to edit the
underlying source code of DSpace. Even then, you would need an extremely good
understanding of the existing code to make sure you don’t break anything (and
to be able to maintain it through future upgrades).
Would it work for you to simply delete the bitstream(s) or bundle(s), or to
make them admin-only, and edit the metadata?
The metadata is part of the item, so withdrawing the item is expected to
withdraw the metadata too.
(This said, in DSpace 5.x we got someone to fiddle with the tombstone
Kia ora,
We attempted using EZproxy in combination with IPAuth on DSpace 7.6 a couple of
months back and it didn’t work. A very quick test today though did seem to work
– not sure what changed!
In my quick test I did get a 500 error when downloading a bitstream – but it
also went ahead and
Kia ora,
These fields aren’t ever translated as they are essentially the
names/identifiers of the metadata fields and are stored in the database
verbatim. “dc.date” (for example) has a specific meaning in the Dublin Core
taxonomy and is expected by DSpace software and any other systems that
outside our organisation. Do not click
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Deborah, just curious what your ezproxy stanza looks like and if you had to
make any changes on the DSpace side of things?
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