Christian, My experience with Creative Commons is that they are very committed to maintaining backwards compatibility. Since it looks like you are sure that there has been a change in how the CC is handling your url requests, then I would recommend contacting them. One way is via:
http://code.creativecommons.org/issues/ If this does not resolve the problem, I'd be happy to discuss what other options would be available to you. --Bill On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 16:24 +0200, Christian Voelker wrote: > Hello William, > > we at stadtteilgeschichten.net a running DSpace 1.4.2. > We updated to this version only recently and wont be > ready for DSpace 1.5 any time soon. > > Having said that, the CreativeCommons submission issue > has popped up at our site exactly the time when it was > fixed for the rest of you. Our users are so patient > that they expected this to be their fault and did not > inform me within the last three weeks. So I stumbled > upon it only this week and it took me some time to > find out the relation to the issue discussed here. > > The last last submission featuring a CC license was > submitted around noon MESZ August, 3rd. The first > submission where it was impossible to choose the CC > License was done in the afternoon MESZ August, 5th. > > What is happening is, that the value of the URL para- > meter license_url does not get appended to the exit_url > parameter by creativecommons any longer. > > > THE DETAILS > > There was a change in how DSpace handles this parameter > between DSpace 1.4 and DSpace 1.5, probably due to the > Configurable Submission Process introduced with Revsision > 2081. The change is in the jsp/submit/creative-commons.jsp > around lines 70-80. There is a URL parameter defined as: > > String exitURL = baseURL + "/submit/cc-license.jsp? > license_url=[license_url]"; > > where the license_url is not set in DSpace 1.4. In DSpace 1.5, > license_url gets set already at that point and gets passed > in to creativecommons later on: > > ... > licenseURL = > CreativeCommons.getLicenseURL(subInfo.getSubmissionItem().getItem()); > > There line including the creativecommons page stays unchanged > between both releases: > > <iframe src="http://creativecommons.org/license/?partner=dspace&stylesheet= > <%= java.net.URLEncoder.encode(ssURL) %>&exit_url=<%= > java.net.URLEncoder.encode(exitURL) %>" width="100%" > height="540"><fmt:message key="jsp.submit.creative-commons.info3"/> > </iframe> > > Now, this is happening in DSpace 1.4 at our site. During > submit process, when entering the CC Licensing page, Dspace > displays this URL in the iframe: > > http://creativecommons.org/license/?partner=dspace&stylesheet=http://stadtteilgeschichten.net/submit/creative-commons.css&exit_url=http://stadtteilgeschichten.net/submit/cc-license.jsp > > ?license_url= > > Please note, that license_url comes without value. The licensing > page of creativecommons gets displayed in german which reflects > the browser settings. We choose our license settings and hit the > button "Select a License". > > The resulting page is in english. The Adress field contains these > parameters: > > http://creativecommons.org/choose/results-one?lang=en&language=en&referrer=&partner=dspace&exit_url=http%253A%252F%252Fstadtteilgeschichten.net%252Fsubmit%252Fcc-license.jsp%253Flicense_url%253D&stylesheet=http%253A%252F%252Fstadtteilgeschichten.net%252Fsubmit%252Fcreative-commons.css&partner_icon_url=&field_commercial=y&field_derivatives=y > > In other words, the license_url does not get completed. The proceed > link within the page points to > > http://stadtteilgeschichten.net/submit/cc-license.jsp?license_url= > > and does not contain a value as well. If completing the request for > the last page, adding the value for license_url manually, then the > address field and the proceed link contain the required value: > > http://creativecommons.org/choose/results-one?partner=dspace&exit_url=http://stadtteilgeschichten.net/submit/cc-license.jsp > > ?license_url=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ > > Probably, Creative Commons has removed this functionality during > their rework because it seemed to them that it is not neede any > longer. I know that it is much to request to keep such a function > for a single installation, but I guess that there are other out > there who still use it and just did not notice until now. I cant > judge how much work it is to include this functionality again on > their side. > > > IMPACT > > For us, this is a major issue. We are a not for profit organization > and we got funded by our government to complete a digitalisation > project during this year and work together with external partners > for that reason. We have treaties with these partners where we > have taken responsibility to provide accessibility of the platform, > id est DSpace during the whole project time. Part of the treaty is > also, that these partners publish their materials under CC License. > > Now, we give them reason, not to fulfill their responsibilities and > in turn we would have to pay back the money we got to complete this > project. Besides, this project has already revealed wonderful res- > sources of social history. You probably know the name of St. Pauli. > Sources of this archive would not be published without this project: > > <http://stadtteilgeschichten.net/handle/2339/1032/browse-date?order=oldestfirst > > > > > We decided not to apply major changes to the platform during project > runtime, id est in 2009 and we would not have the ressources to > do so besides the project. > > I could not figure out a simple way to apply the Configurable > Submission Process patches from 1.5 to the 1.4 sources without > breaking a lot of other stuff. So I guess, my only choice is > to switch to DSpace 1.5 if this cant be fixed. > > While you and the creative commons people dont need to be concerned > about our situation, we would really appreciate if you would. > > Should I contact somebody at Creative Commons directly? Should I > write a bug report o > -- ------------ William Hays Technology Research & Development MIT Libraries E25-131 617.324.5682 (phone) wh...@mit.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
