Gary,
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Gary Browne <gary.bro...@sydney.edu.au>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running dspace 1.5.2. After submitting an item, the author listing is
> not preserved in the same order as the submission order. Is there some
> configuration in dspace.cfg which applies to this? I note that there is the
> jira issue DS-153 but I'm not clear whether this applies to 1.5.2. If so,
> are there instructions somewhere about applying patches to DSpace? I found
> this:
>
> http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/ApplyingPatches
>
> but it doesn't actually describe the technical process.
>
Quick, dirty solution.
Take the following patched version of the file
http://dspace.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dspace/branches/dspace-1_5_x/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/submit/step/DescribeStep.java?revision=3394&pathrev=3394
and place it in one of three possible locations:
If using the full source distribution, you can replace the contents of the
class directly...
[dspace-src]/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/submit/step/DescribeStep.java
or if using either distribution you cna choose one of the two following
locations:
if using jspui
[dspace-src]/dspace/modules/jspui/src/main/java/org/dspace/submit/step/DescribeStep.java
or if using xmlui
[dspace-src]/dspace/modules/xmlui/src/main/java/org/dspace/submit/step/DescribeStep.java
The later two place the class only within the webapplication you are
building. While the first option will put the class into all
webapplications and the lib directory used for the commandline
functionality.
...
>
> Furthermore, I am running another (unpatched) 1.5.2 instance of dspace
> which doesn't suffer from this problem - how can that be?
>
Without reviewing the code, I recall the order of the authors is actually
driven off the order of database records within the metadatavalue table in
database. (someone correct me if I'm in error). Thus differences in
behavior may actually be an artifact of the database behavior. Or perhaps
your running the 1.5.x branch from svn which has this patch applied?
Unfortunately, this is an area where flat old DC records and conversely
DSpace do not have particularly strong support. I suspect that capturing
the priority of authors could possibly best be held in textual form within
an additional field such as dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation field as an
unambiguous original citation for the resource.
I was reading...
http://www.mail-archive.com/dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05213.html
Which might make things "look" ok in the UI, but I wonder if its of any
benefit in other parts of DSpace like crosswalks or oai. Relying on the
order of XML fields for semantic detail about which is the first, second,
third,... author is going to be both impossible to validate and preserve
across disparate technologies/systems...
See the Dublin Core usage guide, section 3...
http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/
Each Dublin Core element is optional and repeatable, and there is no defined
order of elements. The ordering of multiple occurrences of the same element
(e.g., Creator) may have a significance intended by the provider, but
ordering is not guaranteed to be preserved in every user environment.
Ordering or sequencing may be syntax dependent; for instance, RDF/XML
supports ordering, but HTML does not.
Best attempt to preserve this ordering detail in some field such as I've
recommended with dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation, even though the usage
here is not going to get recorded perfectly by your users in all cases it
will be obvious at least somewhere in the record.
Best Regards,
Mark
Mark R. Diggory
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