Re: [Dspace-tech] Virus protection
Many DSpace sites are using ClamAV for this purpose http://www.clamav.net/ It doesn't cover absolutely every format you may encounter, but it handles the most common formats and is a well-supported open source product. >> Dear All, >> > > Can anybody advise on the virus protection software to be used in Linux > boxes for setting up virus scan on document upload. > Thanks to Jayan for sending the steps taken for the virus check on > uploading files in dspace.But i feel thats for Windows. > It would be nice if somebody reply with the steps/software that can be used > for Dspace running in Linux m/c 's. > > Thanks, > Flemion. > Office of Information Science, > Harvard University Library. > > -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] 4th IDCC - Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Digital Curation Conference - Radical Sharing: Transforming Science? Closing Date for Submissions: 25 July 2008 In partnership with the National e-Science Centre and supported by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) we are holding our 4th International Digital Curation Conference on 1-3 December 2008 at the Hilton Edinburgh Grosvenor hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland. You are invited to submit both long and short papers, posters and demonstrations. Proposals will be considered from individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains that are engaged in the creation, use and management of digital data, especially those involved in the challenge of curating data in e-Science and e-Research. Further details, together with submission templates, are available at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2008/ Remember: the closing date for submissions is 25 July 2008. Accepted papers will form Day 2 of the programme and be considered for publication in our International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC). Posters and demonstrations will be available throughout the programme. This conference has become an established annual event providing a platform for showcasing new projects and research, sharing good practice and skills, and exploring collaborative possibilities and partnerships, so this is your chance to make your mark on the emerging field of Digital Curation. Sent on behalf of the Programme Committee Chairs: Chris Rusbridge, Digital Curation Centre Dr. Anne Trefethen, Oxford e-Research Centre Dr. Dave Berry, National e-Science Centre -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] View but not saveable
Well, there is iPaper http://www.scribd.com/ipaper they get around this problem by using flash to view documents. I could imagine having a nice, preservable version safely tucked away in the archive with no access rights, and an iPaper version for online reading. That might work. > In practice the answer is always "no". Anyone who can view a document > can construct a viewer which is able to save a copy. This has nothing > to do with DSpace or HTTP or any document format; it's fundamental to > the way documents are viewed. > > The only way around this that I can think of is to introduce a human > monitor who watches the reader while he uses the document and forbids > any unauthorized use, perhaps by means of a pluggable crypto gadget > shackled to his wrist or something. Outside of a high-security > guarded area such as a bank's back office or a military installation, > I don't see this as practical. > > A partial attempt is to present the document in PDF. Conforming PDF > readers are expected to obey the "no copying" and "no printing" bits > in documents so marked. If your reader is willing to violate the PDF > spec., though, he can easily circumvent these markings, and there is > open-source software out there which can easily be hacked to do this. > Consider it equivalent in power to the spring lock on a diary, no more > -- a reminder, not an enforcement tool -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] About DSpace item registration (from SRB)
Hi Feng, Sorry for the slow reply. In addition to what Richard Rodgers explained about the current functionality for SRB registration, there are a few institutions who are using DSpace and SRB together now (e.g. NYU). If you have specific questions you can post them here, or we can try to put you directly in touch with someone who's done this. As for the future of SRB, Karim is correct that SDSC is deprecating SRB in favor of their new system, iRODS https://www.irods.org/index.php/IRODS:Data_Grids%2C_Digital_Libraries%2C_Persistent_Archives%2C_and_Real-time_Data_Systems which is a rules-based system for data archiving and curation. They will provide migration tools, and the old SRB client, Jargon, should work with both. MIT worked on the PLEDGE project with SDSC using both DSpace and iRODS but we ran out of time to test the Jargon client with a DSpace dissemination package, so I can't tell you for certain that it works. However, if you wanted to try it and ran into problems I'm sure that the SDSC folks would help you out. Hope this helps, MacKenzie > Hi Feng, > SRB will be phased out. iRODS [1] is the replacement. You can post your > question to SRB-chat [2] > or iROD-chat [3]. MIT (dspace et alii) and SDSC-UCSD did many projects > together eg PLEDGE. MacKenzie Smith may update you on this. > > Karim Boughida > > [1] https://www.irods.org > [2] https://lists.sdsc.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/srb-chat > [3] http://groups.google.com/group/iROD-Chat > > >>>> "Feng-chien Chung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-03-26 01:13 >>> >>>> > Dear DSpace community: > > I am Feng-chien, computing center of Academia Sinica, Taiwan. We are now > running our DSpace in version 1.4.2 . > > Recently, we've just set up a SRB connection for DSpace asset storage > supplement, keeping the original assets in local hard disk and make the new > incoming assets go to SRB. > > First I am wondering, is it possible to make SRB purely for backup purpose? > I mean, while achiving a new incoming item in the local file system, save a > replica in SRB at the same time? > > And Second, we are going to try the "registration" function to ingest items > which are already storaged in SRB. But After checking out the DSpace Wiki > "DspaceSrbIntegration" page ( > http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DspaceSrbIntegration) and UCSD's work on > DSpace-SRB Integration project (https://libnet.ucsd.edu/nara/), I didn't > find much informatin about the process, configuration...etc., So has anyone > had experience with registering items from SRB into DSpace, or where can I > get more information about this? > > Thanks for help~ > > Feng-chien Chung > Metadata Architecture and application team, > Computing Center of Academia Sinica, Taiwan > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Regarding Video Content Support in DSpace
Hi Shane, I share your concern about preservation-ready repositories, but in this case I think we can have our cake and eat it too... and I think this is just a different way of saying what you said. There's no reason that the repository couldn't store an archival master copy of the video that is restricted to, e.g., the repository administrator, and also have a link in the metadata to a delivery copy, wherever it resides. It would be nice if the delivery copy could be delivered right from DSpace, but for special or odd formats that may never be practical (think of proprietary formats like AutoCAD or ESRI). Lots of digital archives make the distinction between preservation and use copies, and consider the use copies entirely disposable and reference them for the users convenience. Does that make sense to do here? MacKenzie > I've said this before, and I have to say it again due to my > philosophical outlook on the issue: > > Using a repository record to link to an item stored elsewhere is a > tactic that will continue to cause more difficulties in digital > preservation. When the record and the item are stored separately, > there is no actual structural bond keeping them permanently together > whatsoever, and any number of things can cause the link to fail and > the record to be useless. > > As a secondary resource, an item on a streaming server makes sense. It > can be used to provide a fast-access copy to users for preview or > viewing, and the primary bistream can still be the video file. There > is really no reason to not include it, and simply use a link in > another metadata field or description to provide a streaming version. > > Shane Beers > Digital Repository Services Librarian > George Mason University > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mars.gmu.edu > 703-993-3742 > > > > On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Scott Phillips wrote: > > >> One strategy you may want to adopt, is to include a reference to a >> steaming sever in your items metadata. Then have your theme display >> that link as the file to download. This way you can separate all re >> technology you need to run a proper streaming sever from your >> repositry which doesnt have any support. >> >> Scott-- >> >> On Apr 2, 2008, at 14:30, "Mark H. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Unless these videos are extremely short, that would involve adding a >>> second content delivery model to DSpace. Users aren't going to be >>> satisfied to sit and wait while their browsers download 5GB of video >>> content before starting to play it. >>> >>> I've experimented with storing a simple SMIL document as the item's >>> primary bitstream, and having that point to a streaming server which >>> supplies the actual video. The problem I ran into is that SMIL >>> support in popular browsers was poor to nonexistent at that time. I >>> haven't retested for a while, so the situation may have improved. >>> >>> -- >>> Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" >>> he >>> means the exact opposite. >>> -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Computers games' repository
Good point, and thanks for the referral. Robert Feldman wrote: > At the risk of wandering off-topic from DSpace, when archiving non-PC > software (i.e., for operating systems other than MS-DOS/PC-DOS or Microsoft > Windows, and not on standard IBM format disks) it is advisable to create an > image of the original disk with software like 22Disk or ImageDisk. In that > way, you can recreate a disk that will run on the original hardware. This is > especially important where the original disk was copy protected by > non-physical means. > > For more information on archiving old software, you might want to post a > question to Classic Computer Mailing List at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or look in > their archives. > > Bob > -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Computers games' repository
Hi Jeane, Jim was right that you can store any sort of digital object in DSpace (with metadata) including software programs like computer games, but to make a game truly useful over time requires a bit more effort... you probably know all about this so I apologize if this is old news, but most games (i.e. interactive software programs) only run in very specific computing environments, sometimes with specific I/O devices, and DSpace doesn't do anything to support that requirement now. So you could get the game binary from a DSpace archive, but it won't necessarily run. We ran into this issue with CAD models that we're trying to archive and that depend on particular CAD software to open. We are investigation archiving the CAD software along with the model, and providing an emulation or virtualization environment (e.g. via VMWare or QEMU) to run the software and open the model. If that works, then something like that might make your games playable in the future. The other strategy is to store the game (source code ideally, or binary if that's what you've got) along with *a lot* of information about the game (e.g. screen shots, descriptions of how it worked, hardware requirements, etc.) so that in the future people can figure out how to recreate its operating environment and get the right emulator for their computer. Hope this helps, MacKenzie > > Hello, > > I am new in this list... > > I'd like to know if is possible to use the Dspace to create a > computers games' repository. > > Thanks. > Jeane > -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] Final Reminder: Call for Papers - DSUG @ OR08
Hi Andrea, > do you know if there is a separate poster session for DSUG? > if so, when is the deadline for it? the main websites say > Poster Submission Deadline: Monday 4th February 200 I'm on the steering committee for the Open Repositories conference so maybe I can explain the process (it's a new conference so this is evolving). The deadline for submissions to the main conference was December 7th, and the deadline for poster submissions for the *main conference* is Monday, February 4. The program committee is just finishing its review of the conference paper submissions, and many of those will be referred to the poster session or one of the user group meetings. There were a lot of good papers this year so there are a lot of these referrals, but there is plenty of room for more submissions to both the poster session and the user group meeting. I don't think we planned to have a separate poster session for DSUG, but that might be possible to do at the user group reception, if people wanted another chance to talk about their work and didn't get accepted to the main DSUG program or the main poster session. Let me know if you have more questions and I'll do my best to answer, MacKenzie -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Facetted / faster browsing
Following up on this with a couple of points about RDF use in DSpace: Beyond the descriptive metadata that we usually think about (as replicated in the DWell browser) DSpace is already storing preservation data in RDF for the History (provenance) system. I've looked at that metadata with DWell and it lets me do things like plot DSpace events on a timeline view... very useful. I also worked on a project last year to develop an RDF ontology for repository management policies, with the idea of having a distributed, federated policy management layer over DSpace and with 3rd party service providers (like persistent storage providers). Once again, viewing and editing that metadata was made easier by relying on RDF tools like Longwell. So RDF proved useful for these two cases because the metadata schemas were not standardized and needed to be flexible and extensible... very much like the situation we have with descriptive metadata. Only in situations where the metadata schemas are standard and static has it been better to go with a traditional database schema... otherwise you end up changing the schema (and the code) way to often. MacKenzie Richard Rodgers wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 08:14 -0500, John S. Erickson wrote: > >> Richard Rodgers wrote: >> >>> (1) There is a lot of metadata in DSpace (and a lot more to come) that is >>> not related to user discovery (technical metadata, e.g) - this could live >>> in a triple store - but would not benefit from it. In fact, a lot or >>> record-based metadata is accessed much more efficiently in a RDBMS. >>> >> 1. From an architectural standpoint, doesn't a triple store (in theory) >> make it fundamentally easier to deal with a diversity of metadata types, >> *especially* technical metadata --- which can vary not only between >> formats but even between instances of a given format, depending upon the >> applications that have modified the bitstreams? >> > > Yes absolutely, but what I was trying to question was the 'grand > unification' assumption I think gets made implicitly or explicitly in > these discussions: i.e. that there has to be a single way DSpace > represents and manages all its metadata. Since RDF is so > general/powerful, it always looks like the prohibitive favorite if > framed in these terms. > > I picture a continuum - which ranges from completely 'dark' metadata > living only in an AIP in the asset store (recoverable, of course) to > highly visible discovery metadata - with copies in Lucene, a > triple-store, Google caches, etc. and cases in between involving > collection management. Where Longwell/RDF shines is the case where such > heterogeneous metadata needs to be combined for a particular discovery > purpose. > > Now as Christophe pointed out, the trick is to manage this spectrum > without excess system complexity, and too many moving parts. > -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Development goals
Hi Mark, > I've been saying for some time that, nice as the DSpace user interface > is in many respects, it is not and should not be the only way to plumb > a DSpace archive. If it is (currently) difficult to get a particular > search style put into DSpace, may I suggest trying a different > approach. > > One could harvest metadata via the PMH responder, organize them any > way one wishes, and search them in any desired way. > I can't resist pointing out that this is exactly what "DWell" does -- the faceted browsing and search UI that is layered over DSpace via an OAI-PMH plugin for RDFized metadata. See http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Dwell or Richard Rodger's presentation on same at http://www.aepic.it/conf/viewpaper.php?id=212&print=1&cf=11 I think this is an excellent approach to building better DSpace UIs, and just leaves us with the problem of the underlying data rigidity, which I hope we can address by relying more on RDF or other rich metadata that is stored in the assetstore alongside the content files. The current DSpace metadata tables are great for managing content, but suboptimal for discovering what's in the repository (assuming we can get better discovery metadata from outside the system, somehow). MacKenzie -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Development goals
other hand, > open-source developers are notorious for disdain of non-technical > input and the people who provide it, and DSpace has unfortunately not > departed from that pattern. I know most of the DSpace developers, and they all march to some business need or other, usually determined by their managers (or those who sell services to library managers). But as several of the highly-visible developers have pointed out, none of them work for the "DSpace community", they work for a particular university or company or institute and they usually aren't at liberty to work on whatever they like. > - A communication and contribution path for non-technical DSpace > managers. For the sake of everyone's sanity, it should probably be > wholly separate from the developer community, though someone should > have the job of summarizing useful suggestions to one of the developer > lists (and again, I would happily volunteer). Dspace-general is not a > good venue, because too many DSpace managers have abandoned it, or > consider it an announcement list only. > I heartily share your desire for this, and have tried repeatedly to create such a forum without success. So how do we do it, and get people to use it? MacKenzie -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] Work Study Opportunity - The Banff Centre (Digital Repository)
Of possible interest -Original Message- Digital Repository Work Study http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=667 Program dates: January 21, 2008 - March 17, 2008 Application deadline: December 10, 2007 Preserving digital assets and content is one of the most significant challenges facing institutions and organizations throughout the world. Enormous amounts of digital information have already been lost forever. "Digital evolution has been too rapid and costly for governments and institutions to develop timely and informed preservation strategies. The threat to the economic, social, intellectual and cultural potential of the heritage - the building blocks of the future - has not been fully grasped...unless the prevailing threats are addressed, the loss of the digital heritage will be rapid and inevitable." - UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage The Digital Repository Work Study program is an exciting opportunity to learn and develop experience in this cutting-edge and challenging field. Participants will be given direct hands-on experience in implementing technology solutions to support the long-term preservation of digital assets. They will be provided with an opportunity to implement and test a range of open-source and commercial applications, including DSpace (MIT), Fedora (Cornell University), Greenstone (New Zealand), DAITSS (Florida State), and ContentDM (OCLC). Learning opportunities may also include research into emerging standards, challenges, and technical innovations related to digital preservation. This work study opportunity is intended for individuals with working knowledge and experience in SE Linux/Unix, Tomcat, Apache, PostgresSQL, Perl, and Java. Participants will work as part of a team that includes system administrators, programmers, archivists and librarians. Participants accepted to the work study program will receive a scholarship to cover the program fee and are awarded a weekly stipend to offset the costs associated with room and board during the program. Work study programs are intended to provide participants with a combination of learning opportunities and supervised, practical work related to the participant's learning objectives. Participation in a work study term is considered to be full-time study, rather that employment. All participants sign a learning contract that assists in the evaluation of their work study experience. Scholarship stipend payments are not specifically linked to work performed or performance but are intended to enable participants to pursue the overall learning objectives. All applications must include: * A completed application form; * A non-refundable application processing fee of $59 Cdn, payable to The Banff Centre; * A current résume; * Two letters of reference, or the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of two references who are willing to support the candidate's application and professional development objectives. Application details: http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=667&p=apply -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Academic SRB support
Hi Jose, I haven't gotten the official story from SDSC, but I do know that their attention has shifted to iRODS as the next generation storage architecture for long-term data management. iRODS will be 100% open source software (no more dual license) which will be easier for the community to deal with. My understanding is that the commercial (Nirvana) and non-commercial (plain SRB) are actually the same thing... they just have dual license arrangement for the codebase. So the API that Sun develops *should* also work for your plain vanilla SRB instance too. You can verify that with the SDSC folks (or I can ask them). The DSpace work that we've done at MIT was for the old non-commercial SRB, and we recently got the jargon client for iRODS, so those should be tested with the 1.4.x and 1.5 releases. MacKenzie > I wonder if any one has heard if the academic SRB ( non-commercial ) is > going to be discontinued? We have been discussing using a Honeycomb > server for bit storage, and they have informed us that the academic SRB > is going to be discontinued, so they are not interested in developing an > API for it. They are working on developing a commercial Nirvana SRB > API. I'm assuming that the configurable SRB coming out in a future > release of Dspace is the academic? > > http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/PluggableStorage ? > > Thank you! > Jose -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace SRB Storage using Oracle
Hi Ricardo, There are definitely DSpace sites that use both SRB and Oracle. NYU is an example of that, if I remember correctly. Hopefully those folks got in touch with you directly to answer your questions... if not, there is some information about doing this on the wiki. MacKenzie > Hi, > > Nobody there working with SRB and Oracle? > > Thanks!!! > > > > On 9/20/07, Ricardo Borillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm new to DSpace and i'm evaluating configuration options for best >> platform availability. >> I have read SRB documentation and i reach some interesting point: >> >> """ >> The Storage Resource Broker (SRB) is a client/server middleware that >> provides clients with a set of uniform interfaces to distributed and >> heterogeneous storage resources Storage resources handled by the the >> SRB include the UNIX file system, archival storage systems such as >> UNITREE and HPSS, and database Large Objects managed by various DBMS >> including DB2, Oracle and Illustra. >> """ >> >> It seems that i can use my Oracle database as an storage for DSpace >> content (not only metadata). That's great for me, but i was unable to >> locate documentation or examples showing how to configure DSpace with >> SRB working with an Oracle content storage... >> >> Please, anyone can give me some directions on this topic? >> >> Thanks a lot!! >> >> -- >> Salut, >> >> Ricardo Borillo Domenech >> http://xml-utils.com >> -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Questions about DSpace Features
Hi Robert, > * Does DSpace have service devices (like SOA or SOAP)? > Yes, for submission (see http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/LightweightNetworkInterface). > * Is it correct that DSpace does not have an internal storage > management, which would mean (e.g.) to compress documents which are not > accessed for a given period, or to move them to an other storage > location (e.g. a tape server) if the last access is much older? > You can implement any storage layer underneath DSpace using the storage API. There are implementations now for the local filesystem (the default), SRB and S3 (in prototype, I believe). I think HP has also implemented it with their HSM, but I don't know if there are other HSM systems implemented now. > * And is it possible to bundle / relate different versions of the same > document, e.g. preprint and postprint? > This is handled now via metadata. For MIT's method of doing this see http://wiki.dspace.org/static_files/f/fa/DSpace_Versioning_Feature_Summary_(July_2004).pdf There are plans to change the DSpace data model in a future version so that it can handle versions directly within an item. This is described on the wiki (http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/ArchReviewSynthesis). A lot of this work has already started, and the plan is to complete these changes in 2008. > * Does DSpace keep track of different versions of the same document to > have a history of minor changes (compared to pre- and postprint)? > It is a digital archive rather than an authoring system, so no, minor changes to documents are noant normally kept. The idea is to store final versions of documents and keep them forever, and to link different *editions* of documents via metadata (see the last answer) so that users can safely cite a particular version and not worry about it disappearing later. MacKenzie -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace and CrossRef
Dear Sylvie, Amy Brand from CrossRef will be in touch with you directly about this... there are a couple of organizations already assigning DOIs to their DSpace items (WHOI and Texas A&M, for example) so hopefully they will share their experiences with you. MacKenzie > Dear DSpaceusers and developpers, > > We are investigating to deposit documents of I-Revues D-Space > application (http://irevues.inist.fr <http://irevues.inist.fr/>), the > French CNRS-INIST electronic publishing service, with CrossRef and to > assign a corresponding DOI (following > http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/how_to_faq.html#Anchor-Consideration-43266). > > > > We already contact the PILA fundation to become a member. > > We are looking a d-space community who has an experience with > CrossRef. How XML metadata CrossRef is create? from Mets export? from > dc-dspace file? from original xml file?is xsl-t to Crossref avalaible? > ... > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > > Sylvie Grésillaud > > Service Manager > > ** > > INIST-CNRS > > Electronic publishing service > > 2 Allée du Parc de Brabois > > CS 10310 > > 54519 VANDOEUVRE LES NANCY CEDEX > > téléphone : +33 (0)3 83 50 46 61 > > télécopie : +33 (0)3 83 50 47 33 > > web : www.inist.fr <http://www.inist.fr/> > -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Dataverse vs DSpace
Hi Ricardo, I don't think Dataverse is a viable substitute for DSpace, given its focus on statistical datasets and DDI. It's also not quite finished yet (the current system, VDC, is what Harvard and MIT are using now). As part of a project we're doing with UNC and the SDSC, we have already implemented basic interoperability between the two systems, see http://pledge.mit.edu/index.php/VDCIntegration We store datasets in VDC (and Dataverse in the future) for researcher access, subsetting, etc. Then we archiving them into DSpace for long-term access and preservation. The datasets can go from VDC into DSpace or the other way around. Mark Diggory can supply details is you want them -- he's worked closely on both systems and is doing all the interoperability work. MacKenzie MacKenzie > He everybody, > I just want to collect some opinions from you about a project called > Dataverse from Harvard University (http://thedata.org). > It has a lot of points in common with DSpace (handlers, long term > preservation, JEE, OAI) and some advantages like (R interface provides > statistics calculations online, universal fingerprint, etc) > Please if anybody at this list has reviewed both project I would > appreciate your opinion regarding future interoperability between both > systems, at a glance I was thinking to use DSpace for general info and > metadata data and use Dataverse just for "the datadata" (tables, > databases etc). > Is Dataverse a substitute for DSpace? > Should both project converge or inter operate? > > Greets > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace and Z39.50
And as I recall, we couldn't distribute it with the DSpace codebase because it contained some code under the GPL... so it's an add-on that has to be downloaded separately (and many have). We talked about adding Z39.50 support a long time ago, but nobody really wanted it and SRU seemed like the right way to go. MacKenzie > OCLC provides an SRW/U interface to DSpace. See > http://www.oclc.org/research/software/srw/ > > Ralph > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter > Cliff > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 10:47 AM > To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Dspace-tech] DSpace and Z39.50 > > Hello! > > I've been trawling through the DSpace mailing list archives and also the > > documentation, and while I've found a few references - notably an email > stating that there was a task to add Z39.50 and SRU to DSpace in 2003 - > I've not found any concrete evidence that would suggest DSpace supports > either protocol. > > Am I right in thinking that DSpace does not ship with a Z39.50 and/or > SRU (or even SRW) interface? > > I realise adding one would be pretty straight forward for an > implementor, either by indexing the output of an OAI-PMH request for > everything (using, say, IndexData's Zebra) or using the DSpace search > API and something like JZKit > (http://developer.k-int.com/projects.php?page=dspace for example). > > Thanks, > > Pete Cliff > Research Officer, Repositories Support Project, > UKOLN, University of Bath - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] new web site launch
Congratulations Michele, I, for one, think the new site looks great and appreciate the ability for everyone add to it. When the press release is out I hope you'll share it on the mailing lists so we'll know what's coming our way! MacKenzie > Dear members of the community, > > Today we have officially launched the new foundation, with the > support and help of the HP Press Relations team and MIT Library Press > ( they did a fantastic job!). To coincide with the Foundation > announcement we have redesigned and launched a new DSpace.org > website. The purpose of redesigning the website was to achieve the > following: > > -Give the website broader appeal from those outside or new to the > community > > -move it to an opensource platform, called Joomla, so the community > can actually add content once they are registered users ( like news/ > events/weblinks). > > -Be able to incorporate forums, blogs ect if these become useful to > the community. > > The website is in no way intended to replace or duplicate the content > on the wiki. The wiki is the key place for all the developers and > interactive users to find the most complete sources of information. > The website is just a "lightweight" more organized slice of what the > community at large is doing. > > I would welcome any feedback you have, please remember this is a work > in progress, and it was produced in the true- start up fashion- on a > shoe string budget with a few people putting in very long hours. In > particular I would like to thank Margaret Waters for all her hard > work on this. > > > If anyone in the community knows Joomla- or is interested in becoming > a content producer on any section of the website- let me know and we > can set you up with access to do so- in the true open source way! > > > regards, > Michele Kimpton > Exec Director, DSpace Foundation > -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] PURLs redux
For those who are interested in persistent identifier systems, an interesting new development from OCLC: OCLC to work with Zepheira to redesign OCLC's PURL service DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 11 July 2007—OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and Zepheira, LLC announced today that they will work together to rearchitect OCLC's Persistent URL (PURL) service to more effectively support the management of a "Web of data." - http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/200669.htm Of particular note is the part about PURL server infrastructure: "The software developed will be released under an Open Source Software license allowing PURLs and the PURL infrastructure to be used in various applications for public or proprietary use. OCLC and Zepheira are collaborating to extend the open and inclusive community of PURL users." Meaning that ID resolution can be easily dropped into applications like DSpace (or HTTPD). Food for thought. -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] License Change
Hi Keith, Assuming you mean the deposit license, this is just a local policy question. The license that was used at the time of submission is in the license.txt file in the LICENSE bundle for each item in the archive. So it would be possible to change that license by hunting down each copy of that file and replacing it (and presumably notifying each submitter via their e-person email address that you've done that). While a DSpace deposit license is usually just considered to be an understanding between a university's faculty and its library (or similar researcher/enterprise relationship) rather than a legal contract, it does sort of defeat the purpose of having one if the repository managers go around changing it. Of course, you may have good reasons for doing just that, but it would be very uncommon. MacKenzie Keith Jones wrote: > If I wanted to change the license on a dspace installation I know this > does not change the license for items that have previously been submitted. > Is there a way to change the license for previously submitted items. > - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] DSpace: "digital" archive or "literature" archive?
ata > (3 million documents). It is intended that version 5 will effortlessly > scale to over 5TB. This will need to be assessed, but early > indications > are convincing. Below are a few references. You may like to note that > their current development is being driven by the needs of clients > perhaps not so very different from your own: > > > i.) Nuxeo Home Page: > > http://www.nuxeo.com/ > > ii.) CPS Project Page: > > http://www.cps-project.org/ > > iii.) About the Zope to Java technology switch (CPS 4 to Nuxeo 5): > > http://www.nuxeo.com/en/java-switch/ > > iv.) Nuxeo 5 Project Page: > > http://www.nuxeo.com/en/products/ > > http://www.nuxeo.org/static/snapshots/ (Download Daily Snapshots) > > v.) Nuxeo 5 Roadmap > > http://www.nuxeo.org/sections/about/roadmap/ > > > vi.) Nuxeo Clients: > > http://www.nuxeo.com/en/customers/ > > vii.) Mailing Lists (Nuxeo 5): > > http://lists.nuxeo.com/mailman/listinfo/ecm > > > > Best regards, > > Richard Mahoney > > > -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Adding items without bitstreams
To those who would like to add content-free items to their repository -- a couple of warnings: -- if your repository is supposed to support digital preservation activities then beware of content that you don't actually have at hand... if the concern is not making the content public it might be preferable to just limit access to it, rather than exclude it from the repository altogether (assuming you have the right to keep a copy). -- Google and other harvesters, including OAI harvesters like OAIster, are getting grumpy about repositories that include content-free items... they need a quick, reliable way to tell if the item they just grabbed has a retrievable content file attached to it. Since the bitstream URIs are not in the DC metadata it's hard for them to figure this out, but since most DSpace repositories don't allow items without associated bitstreams it hasn't been a problem. But if this trend to support content-free items continues then we'll have to figure out how to flag these records to help the harvesters. MacKenzie Mark Diggory wrote: > We've got a couple patches to the LNI stuff from John Fawcett of > CARET which allow one to create collections/communities via LNI and > Update/Delete Items. I don't see why the PAckager framework couldn't > also be tailored to allow creating items without files. > > I don't see why the Submission UI in Manakin or JSPUI couldn't be > made more flexible in this regard, I'd also add that with > Configurable Submission, this should be a bit of a no-brainer. > > -Mark > > > On Apr 20, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Martin Courtois wrote: > > >> Hi Robert, >> >> We're testing the possibility of using the DSpace simple archive >> format >> and item importer to create a DSpace record without a corresponding >> item. Here's what we're doing: >> >> 1. Create the records in the dublin_core.xml format as described in >> the >> "Item Importer and Exporter/DSpace simple archive format" section of >> the DSpace documentation. >> >> 2. Assemble all the dublin_core.xml files into the DSpace simple >> archive >> format (described in the same section of the documentation), but leave >> out the contents and file portions. So, it might look like this: >> >> archive_directory/ >>item_000/ >> dublin_core.xml >>item_001/ >> dublin_core.xml >>item_002/ >> dublin_core.xml >> etc. >> >> 3. Run the item importer. >> >> We've completed only step 1, so I'm not sure this works. I'll send a >> more complete description once we're further along. >> >> Marty >> >> Martin Courtois >> Information Technology Assistance Center >> 509 Hale Library >> Kansas State University >> Manhattan KS 66506 >> Phone: 785 532-4428 >> Fax: 785 532-3199 >> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Quoting "BEAZLEY, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> >>> Is it possible to add items to DSpace without uploading a file? We >>> have a >>> need to add citations to our repository where we may not have the >>> right to >>> distribute the actual article itself. At the moment we're just using >>> a >>> placeholder text file but we'd like to be able to do away with this >>> if it's >>> at all possible. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> >>> >>> >>> Robert Beazley >>> Application Developer >>> Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation >>> PMB 1, Menai NSW Australia 2234 >>> T +61 2 9717 7791 >>> E [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> -- MacKenzie Smith MIT Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] Mellon MATC awards
Hi everyone, I want to remind you that the nomination deadline for the Mellon Foundation's open source software MATC awards is coming up soon -- April 16th! This is a wonderful program to reward institutions that create open source software for our collective benefit... last year's winners were an impressive group http://matc.mellon.org/winners/winner-2006/ As you can see, the awards are not limited to US institutions, new projects, and can be of any size. So if any of you know about an open source software project that you couldn't live without, consider nominating it, or let me know and I'll put something together. See http://matc.mellon.org/ for the details. Thanks, MacKenzie -- MacKenzie Smith MIT Libraries - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Problem pertaining to Search
Hi Krishna, Sounds like you're looking for SRU/SRW for which OCLC has developed an add-on to DSpace. http://www.oclc.org/research/software/srw/default.htm Lots of us are using this to perform remote searches. Another approach people are using (depending on their application) is to harvest the metadata they want via OAI and index it locally to their application, with the result set records linking back to the DSpace items. MacKenzie > I am trying to integrate a java application to DSpace to store the > data. I have been successful in writing java code for ingesting, > deleting the items in dspace . > > Now I need to implement search mechanism for our application which is > bugging me a lot. > > Is there any mechanism: when i give a string as an input it should > search all the items and return all the items matching the string. > > I have gone through the browse and search packages in DSpace API, but > couldn't figureout how to do it. > > Please help me... > > Thanking you all, > Krishna Bhaskarla > > University of Memphis > Memphis, TN -- MacKenzie Smith MIT Libraries - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Does DSpace has version mechanism...!
Hi Krishna, > Can we able to have versions for the items inserted. I have looked > into DC metadata elements but i couldn't find any element of type > version. > > We are using DSpace only to store the data that we insert from our own > web interface. Can we able to add new version for the item inserted. > > i dont know whether i described it properly or not.. i hope you understand. > Version support in DSpace is evolving. Currently the strategy involves multiple items with links between them, which you can display however you like in the UI See the document on versioning at http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DspaceResources#Related_Readings In the future, DSpace will support versioning in more ways, including internal to items. There's a discussion of the issues at http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/VersioningProposal and recommendations for future support here http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/ArchReviewSynthesis Basically (and assuming you mean versions in the sense of editions in time, rather than different file formats for the same edition) it all depends on whether you consider items to be part of the permanent scholarly record or not... if they are, then all versions should be kept and available, but the UI should guide users to the latest and greatest, if that's really what they're looking for. MacKenzie -- MacKenzie Smith MIT Libraries - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating Dspace Servers
Hi Lucia, If you have a metasearch tool that supports SRU/SRW (the next generation Z39.50 search protocol, based on Web Services) then you can do this. You need the SRU/SRW add-on from OCLC, and you will find more information about it at http://www.oclc.org/research/software/srw/default.htm MacKenzie > Hello! > We're wondering if it's possible launching searches against multiples > dspace instances. Just like federating multiples servers or built them > into a portal. > Thanks for your help: > > Lucía > -- MacKenzie Smith MIT Libraries - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] Final reminder: DSpace user group meeting coming up!
apologies for the cross-posting * To anyone who may have missed this conference announcement, here is one final reminder! The Open Repositories 2007 conference will be taking place in San Antonio in a couple of weeks (Jan 23-26th), and will include a DSpace user group meeting -- the first one in North America since 2003! It's not too late to register, the conference organizers have extended the early registration and hotel rates through to January 19th. http://openrepositories.org/ Hope to see you there, MacKenzie Smith MIT Libraries -- MacKenzie Smith MIT Libraries - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
