Hi guys,
I'm Sarah Molloy, Research Support Librarian in the Academic Services team here
at Queen Mary, University of London. We're currently running 1.5.2 of DSpace
with a view to upgrading to 1.6.x in the near future. Like Leonie, we've also
linked our repository to our Symplectic Elements publications system, and are
currently monitoriing upload rates and feedback. We've had a repository since
April 2010.
I guess an upgrade to 1.7 is in our future, but have no idea when.
Sarah
>>> Leonie Hayes <[email protected]> 20/01/2011 20:26 >>>
Hi Everyone and greetings to you from sunny Auckland New Zealand.
You will hopefully be getting ready to leave work for the evening as I arrive
on Friday morning.
Its Leonie Hayes, my latest job title is Research Support Services Manager in
the Research and Academic Services group at the University Library. We run
DSpace 1.6.2 and will be upgrading to DSpace 1.7 very soon. We first started
using DSpace in 2006/2007 for a Thesis project. Seems like a long time ago.
I have been very busy working on another project for the last 6 months.
We now have an integrated Research Outputs Management system using Symplectic
Elements this is hooked to our repository and pushes content from Academic
staff directly into DSpace using the Repository Tools integration software
supplied by Symplectic. Staff now don't ever need to go near DSpace and its
quite seamless, we felt this approach was going to create more content in our
repository.
In our Digital Development team we have Stuart Lewis (Lead), Kim Shepherd and
YinYin Latt all top DSpace developers with loads of experience, so we are very
fortunate that we can move forward quite quickly.
We don't do much customisation and try to upgrade as quickly as possible, I
spent a lot of time trying to make sure that our metadata was comprehensive but
have always been disappointed with the fact there is no metadata for separate
elements of a citation like volume, issue and s/e pages, also export to
endnote/BibTeX etc and that is something I hope to contribute to the community
for 1.8.
Cheers Leonie
Leonie Hayes
Acting Research Support Services Manager
University of Auckland Library
http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/contacts/?stid=124
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I hope I am sending this to the appropriate list, if not I apologize.
I am new to DSpace and have taken over the support role for our library that
is using DSpace for content management. Currently, they seem to be
continuing to develop their metadata fields after a number of collections
have already been loaded to our 1.6 instance. Now there are suddenly
problems with searching for Author, Title, Subject, or Issue Date on the
site, DSpace reports: 'There are no entries in the index for "All of
DSpace".' When I have attempted to reindex DSpace via the dsrun
org.dspace.browse.IndexBrowse -f -r command, I get an error that says:
'ORA-00942: the table or view does not exist'.
After looking at the metadata field registry, I've noted a number of changes
from the last time everything worked properly until now. So I was wondering
if there was a direct connection between the metadata field registry and the
database? If this is the case, I don't believe my end-users in the library
understand the magnitude of the changes they are making in the metadata
field registry.
Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.
Environment:
- Red Hat Enterprise 5
- DSpace 1.6
- Oracle 11g
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Information Technology Services - Computer Center
Georgia Southern University
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From: "Matveyeva, Susan" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 discussion: Customizations
To: "Platt, Alice" <[email protected]>,
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Hi,
I am Susan Matveyeva, manager of SOAR<http://soar.wichita.edu/>, Wichita State
University institutional repository. SOAR is in production from 2007. Our
DSpace runs on Linux. We have upgraded recently to 1.6.2 XMLUI and will be
waiting with next upgrade at least for several months. We do not have
developers in house. We enhanced SOAR with help of @mire by adding three their
modules (zoom, audio-visual streaming, and document viewer).
Is it appropriate to discuss desirable new functionality here? I am very
interested in automated delivery of statistics of hits and downloads to our
authors. Bepress Digital Commons has this feature. The system sends monthly
reports to the authors. Some our faculty mentioned to me how wonderful it would
be to receive monthly email update from SOAR. Personally, I think that
automated statistics delivery is the excellent tool to promote an institutional
repository and to recruit content from authors. I'd like to hear your opinion
on this matter. Would it be a good idea to develop similar functionality for
DSpace? Sorry if I jumped off the topic.
Thanks
Susan
__________________________
Susan Matveyeva, PhD, MLIS, B.Mus
Associate Professor, Catalog &
Institutional Repository Librarian
Wichita State University Libraries
1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0068
Office: (316) 978-5139
Fax: (316) 978-3496
[email protected]
http://soar.wichita.edu
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From: Platt, Alice [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 discussion: Customizations
Brian notes that his institution customizes fairly heavily, which does bring a
lot of challenges to upgrading the software. This brings me to another question
for the group. What kinds of customizations do you have at your institution,
and why?
We have very little at SNHU outside of branding, customizing search parameters
and changing the brief item display, mainly because we don't have the resources
to support a lot of customization.
Alice
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From: Brian Freels-Stendel [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 discussion: Upgrade Challenges
Hello,
I'm Brian Freels-Stendel, a programmer at the University of New Mexico
Libraries. We're running 1.6.2 XMLUI on RHEL. We started with 1.3.2, whenever
that was, it gets hazy.
Our philosophy is not to be bleeding edge, so we generally don't jump on a .0
release, but we do want to remain semi-current, so a .1 is ok.
We also have a devil of a time with prerequisite software (we almost were not
able to upgrade to 1.6 due to Ant, and we will have to wait for
1.7 because RH isn't offering a late enough version of maven.) We customize
fairly heavily, and that is always a challenge, but almost always possible
because of great community support.
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:35:34 -0500
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This sounds really exciting, Peter. I?m going to guess that you became the
Release Coordinator by sending an e-mail that said, ?I?d like to help!?
Alice
From: Peter Dietz [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:04 PM
To: George Stanley Kozak
Cc: Platt, Alice; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 discussion: Introductions
Hi All,
I'm Peter Dietz, developer at the Ohio State University Libraries.
I made my first customizations to DSpace code in Fall 2009, and had lots of
questions that people on both the mailing lists and the IRC were able to help
me out.
Since then, I've become the Release Coordinator for 1.7. The goals of 1.7 were
to have a stable and on-schedule release with a nice balance of features. I
stretched a few of the deadlines for development so that we could fit as many
bug fixes in as possible, as well as getting some important features included.
We've also performed extensive testing of the software before release, and
minimized bug introduction by adding a code testing server. I'll also be doing
a webcast next week to give an introduction to the new features of DSpace 1.7.
At my University our team is busy working on our switchover to XMLUI, which
includes look-and-feel improvements (images, image gallery) -- see screenshots
at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/pdietz84/OSULibrariesDSpaceDesigns#<http://picasaweb.google.com/pdietz84/OSULibrariesDSpaceDesigns>,
as well as many back-end improvements (proxy-license bundle, iTunes Podcast
support). After the XMLUI project we'll upgrade our development environment to
1.7, and work on making better use of the SOLR statistics system (top items /
bitstreams per collection). I've already backported some of my favorite
features of 1.7 to our 1.6 system (Mirage theme, bitstream ordering).
What I'm looking for from the community is an increased interest, feedback, and
participation in side projects. Such as getting active community developed
themes, curation tasks, and other plugins. Getting involved is actually much
easier than one might think, especially since developers love feedback on
projects, and are generally pretty helpful.
Peter Dietz
Systems Developer/Engineer
Ohio State University Libraries
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:21 AM, George Stanley Kozak
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Alice, et al.:
I am George Kozak, Digital Library Specialist at the Cornell University
Library. Our repository launched in 2002. We are running DSpace 1.6.2 on a Sun
T-series Server.
We hope to upgrade to 1.7 this summer.
George Kozak
Digital Library Specialist
Cornell University Library Information Technologies (CUL-IT)
501 Olin Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
607-255-8924
From: Platt, Alice [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:59 AM
To:
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 discussion: Introductions
Welcome to the first DSpace Online Discussion! Today we will talk about DSpace
1.7: is it on your roadmap? Why or why not?
This discussion will take place today and tomorrow. It will end at 6 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time tomorrow evening. After the discussion, I will provide a
summary of what was discussed.
I expect the discussion will branch into other topics. This is encouraged!
Please feel free to respond to any aspect of the discussion that interests you.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'd like to begin the discussion by introducing ourselves. Please state who you
are, the version of DSpace you are running, what platform you are on, and when
you started using DSpace. Then let us know: are you planning to upgrade to
DSpace 1.7 in the next six months, or have you upgraded already?
I will start:
I am Alice Platt, Digital Initiatives Librarian at Southern New Hampshire
University. Our repository launched in May 2010. We are running DSpace 1.5.2 on
Windows.
We hope to upgrade to 1.7 this summer.
Alice Platt
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Shapiro Library
Southern New Hampshire University
2500 North River Rd
Manchester, NH 03106
USA
603-668-2211 x 2156
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