[Dspace-devel] Where to put code for sharing ?

Can anyone point me in the right direction ? I have some code for an Item Type based submission process that I would like to make available for sharing. Is there a suitable home for such things ? Thanks, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh Tel. 0131 6513808 -- The Unive

[Dspace-devel] RE. Machine readable citations and metadata encodings

Tried to follow last nights IRC discussion about machine readable citations and metadata encodings. Please excuse some ill-informed ramblings... Metadata encodings :- Seems like a good thing to me. Could be used as the basis for validation of metadata and possibly as a means of reducing some of

Re: [Dspace-devel] RE. Machine readable citations and metadata encodings

Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh Tel. 0131 6513808 > -Original Message- > From: Graham Triggs [mailto:grahamtri...@gmail.com] > Sent: 28 January 2010 13:20 > To: TAYLOR Robin > Cc: dspace-devel > Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] RE. Machine readab

Re: [Dspace-devel] RE. Machine readable citations and metadata encodings

Hi Mark, I confess this is starting to go over my head so please forgive me if I am woffling. For entries manually submitted how would we get hold of a machine readable (mr) citation ? On the assumption that the user doesn't key it, would we ask them to enter the discrete bits and immediately

[Dspace-devel] The LNI interface

Just for info - I have read a few comments recently about the LNI interface not having attracted much interest. Some of our partners in the Scottish Digital Library Consortium have plumped for a CRIS called PURE that deposits into their Dspace repositories via the LNI - http://www.atira.dk/en/pu

[Dspace-devel] Dspace Services source code

Hi, I was looking at the 1.6 source code distribution recently and trying to find my way through the Dspace Services stuff. I found it a frustration that the source code was not included. I was wondering if it would be possible to include it in future, or would that be a daft thing to do ? Che

Re: [Dspace-devel] Dspace Services source code

ailto:mdigg...@gmail.com] On > Behalf Of Mark Diggory > Sent: 22 March 2010 16:17 > To: TAYLOR Robin > Cc: dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] Dspace Services source code > > The source code is present in both the svn repository and the > maven

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace Functional Tests?

Hi Scott/Tim, The guys at Enovation recently submitted a number of patches related testing (http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-532). It would be useful if we could at least group these tickets somehow. Any ideas ? Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh Tel. 0131 6

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace Developers IRC meeting April 28, 2010 20:00 UTC

I may be a little bit late for tonights meeting so here are my thoughts concerning DCDate (cut and pasted from earlier email conversation)... " Hi Kim, I noticed another date related bug raised by Claudia today. It may be that its just a case of ironing out these bugs and then everything will b

[Dspace-devel] DCDate conversation

I hope nobody minds but I'm interested in continuing the conversation that I was only able to pay partial attention to in yesterday's developer meeting http://duraspace.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2010-04-28. Am I correct in understanding that we would be looking to replace the current functional

Re: [Dspace-devel] DCDate conversation

larity, display and so on for > 1.6.1 and then go from there. Happy to hear counterpoints! For my part I agree. I personally wont have time to rewrite the class and test it properly pre-1.6.1. Cheers. > > Cheers, > > Kim > > > -Original Message- > > From

[Dspace-devel] Jira workflow etc

Following on from the developer-meeting discussion about Jira workflow and best practices here are a few thoughts:- The default workflow can be seen here - http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/v3.13/default_workflow.html. It does appear to be possible to customise the default workflow t

Re: [Dspace-devel] Jira workflow etc

So what about ignoring the bits we disagree on for the moment. I think there is a consensus that it would be useful to have an additional extra step, as the Fedora guys have, something like 'received'. This would allow us to easily identify those issues which had not yet been reviewed. Any objec

Re: [Dspace-devel] Concerns about Java packages used by Services Framework API

Hi Tim, Well spotted. Seems a no-brainer to me now you point it out. Cheers. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh Tel. 0131 6513808 > -Original Message- > From: Tim Donohue [mailto:tdono...@duraspace.org] > Sent: 08 June 2010 18:02 > To: dspace-devel > Subject: [Dspace-

[Dspace-devel] LNI and the REST interface

Hi, I have recently been working with a company called Atira that supply a CRIS called Pure that has had some take up here in the UK. They had a need to interface with DSpace and on the basis of the LNI documentation decided that it would be an appropriate mechanism. Unfortunately the documenta

[Dspace-devel] Committing, async releases etc

Having completely forgotten about yesterdays developers meeting (doh !) I just read the log and was interested in the chat about committer rights etc. I don't want to preempt any further discussion but just wanted to say that it might be logical to have the discussion about modularisation and as

Re: [Dspace-devel] Location of text content.

Hi Paul, You are looking for a file called Messages.properties. It lives in dspace-api/src/main/resources, but you may want to copy it to dspace/modules/jspui/src/main/resources and use that as an overlay version leaving the original intact. Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library Universit

Re: [Dspace-devel] July 28 - Special Topic Mtg on "GSoC Project Merging & Trunk Mgmt"

Just my tuppence worth... If there is a problem then I don't think it will be with allowing the students to commit their code. I doubt they are any more likely to make a mess of it than I would be and any big mistake is easily spotted and easily corrected as you say. The problem would be code b

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace GSoC 'testing' project

> i) Should the tests run automatically every time the code is packaged? > - Maven tries to run tests when the 'mvn package' command > is given. Whilst this is a good thing to do (as it > highlights any errors that are present in that build), it > does add an extra minute to the build time.

Re: [Dspace-devel] [Dspace-tech] DSpace GSoC 'testing' project

o immediate intention of fixing DCDate to comply with the > test, then > > maybe commenting the offending test methods out with //FIXME notes > > seems reasonable. > > It is less clear to me why having a test that confirms the > erroneous > > behavior is

[Dspace-devel] DCDate issues

Spotted some more DCDate activity in Jira yesterday. I have a new version of DCDate but I'm on holiday for a couple of weeks so I'd be grateful if people would assign any date related issues to me in my absence. Thanks, Robin. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace GSoC REST API project status?

Hi Tim, I have some concerns about this approach. I have been working recently with a company called Atira who, on the basis of the documentation, chose to make use of the LNI for a particular project. Having started down that road they discovered that the documentation was more comprehensive t

[Dspace-devel] Unit tests

Just checked out the trunk with the Unit Testing stuff in it, love it ! However, I get the following error 2010-08-13 10:52:12,327 ERROR org.dspace.event.BasicDispatcher @ Consumer("search").consume threw: java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException at org.dspace.search.Searc

[Dspace-devel] Unit tests failures

I'm getting the following failures in the unit tests and wondered if anyone had already fixed them. I'm being lazy here so if I don't get any replies then I'll get my finger out and investigate. Cheers, Robin. Results : Tests in error: testEquals(org.dspace.content.CommunityTest) testCr

Re: [Dspace-devel] Unit tests failures

nal Message- > From: Tim Donohue [mailto:tdono...@duraspace.org] > Sent: 30 August 2010 15:44 > To: TAYLOR Robin > Cc: dspace-devel Developers; Pere Villega > Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] Unit tests failures > > Hi Robin & all, > > I actually get different results

Re: [Dspace-devel] Unit tests failures

[mailto:araco...@gmail.com] On > Behalf Of Pere Villega > Sent: 30 August 2010 18:02 > To: TAYLOR Robin > Cc: Tim Donohue; dspace-devel Developers > Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] Unit tests failures > > Hi, > > I'll check the issues :) Can't assure I'll do

Re: [Dspace-devel] Unit tests failures

University of Edinburgh Tel. 0131 6513808 > -Original Message- > From: araco...@gmail.com [mailto:araco...@gmail.com] On > Behalf Of Pere Villega > Sent: 02 September 2010 00:42 > To: TAYLOR Robin > Cc: Tim Donohue; dspace-devel Developers; Stuart Lewis > Subject

[Dspace-devel] Jira component for tests module

Should we add a new Jira component for the unit tests module ? Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh Tel. 0131 6513808 -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ---

[Dspace-devel] Performance tests

Hi Pere, I remember you asked about getting feedback for the performance tests so here is some. I am consistently failing these two tests without having made any changes to the code being tested. I've raised a Jira issue http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-670. I'll happily change the tests o

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace harvesting process

Hi Paul, The bit you are looking for is method processRecord(...). It uses a selection of crosswalks to process the incoming XML and the write it to the database eg... MDxwalk.ingest(ourContext, item, descMD.get(0)); Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh Te

[Dspace-devel] Java checked vs unchecked exceptions

Hi all, A couple of us have been having our own 'checked vs unchecked exceptions' debate on the IRC #dspace channel so I thought I would widen the audience to get some more opinions. I just changed DCDate to thow a checked exception if it is fed an invalid parameter eg 31st February. There ar

Re: [Dspace-devel] Java checked vs unchecked exceptions

heers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh Tel. 0131 6513808 > -Original Message- > From: TAYLOR Robin > Sent: 03 November 2010 11:44 > To: dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Dspace-devel] Java checked vs unchecked exceptions > > H

[Dspace-devel] Solr for 1.7

Can anyone help ? I'm having trouble with my latest version of Dspace installed from trunk. Solr is running out of Permgen memory after about 15 mins. I suspect it is because it is reinitialising itself every 10 secs approx. In the logs I see this being repeated... 04-Nov-2010 15:50:37 org.apa

Re: [Dspace-devel] Solr for 1.7

04 November 2010 17:45 > To: TAYLOR Robin > Cc: dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] Solr for 1.7 > > Robin, is it possible you just need to provide more memory to > your JVM? > > > -- > sands fish > Senior Software Engineer >

[Dspace-devel] DS-755 needs reviewed

Hi all, If anyone has a chance could they cast a quick eye over... https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-755 Its definitely a bug and its one that would be good to fix in 1.7. I would appreciate it if someone could have a quick look at the patch or attached class to see if I have made any obvio

[Dspace-devel] IntellijIDEA v10 issue

Hi all, If you are not an IntellijIDEA user then sorry for pestering you. I just upgraded to IDEA v10 and find that you cant now select a build.xml file that is in an 'excluded' directory. This is a minor annoyance in that the target directory is excluded by default and we typically want to run

Re: [Dspace-devel] Fwd: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code 2013

Hi Peter (et al), I’ve heard the idea of Hydra on DSpace bandied about quite a bit so here are a few of my thoughts based on a very superficial knowledge of Hydra:- Hydra is built on Fedora for CRUD functionality and Blacklight for search and browse. I could well be out of date but as mentioned

[Dspace-devel] Repository Fringe 2013 - Book The Date!

Apologies for cross-posting. * Book the date for the 6th Annual Repository Fringe! ** The University of Edinburgh with support from the Digital Curation Centre, EDINA, and Edinburgh University Library are delighted to announce that after its temporary incorporation into Open Reposi

[Dspace-devel] Memory leak in dspace-services

Hi all, I'm in search of help. We have been suffering from a memory leak recently causing out-of-memory exceptions and *I think* the cause is this:- In DSpaceWebappServletFilter.doFilter() there is a call to requestService.startRequest() which in turn calls all registered RequestInterceptors,

Re: [Dspace-devel] Memory leak in dspace-services

d INCLUDE might solve the leak, but I don't know if that would pervert whatever the original intention of the code was. Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh From: Hilton Gibson [hilton.gib...@gmail.com] Sent: 25 March 2013 18:42

[Dspace-devel] FW: [Dspace-general] Repository Fringe Conference, Edinburgh 1-2 August 2013

FYI with apologies for cross-posting. On 02/07/2013 09:48, "KNOWLES Claire" wrote: >Apologies for Cross Posting > > >We are very excited to announce that Jacqui Taylor Co-Founder and CEO of >FlyingBinary (http://www.flyingbinary.com/) has agreed to be our Ope

[Dspace-devel] FW: Repository Fringe 2013 - Programme Announced / How to Take Part

With apologies for cross-postingŠ On 25/07/2013 14:33, "OSBORNE Nicola" wrote: >There is just one week to go until Repository Fringe 2013, which takes >place in Edinburgh from 31st July 2013 to 2nd August 2013. > >You can find out more about the Fringe on the website: >http://rfringe13.blogs.e

Re: [Dspace-devel] Ant fresh_install error

Ignore me please, problem solved. Cheers. From: Robin TAYLOR mailto:robin.tay...@ed.ac.uk>> Date: Thursday, 15 August 2013 16:06 To: "dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" mailto:dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>> Subject: Ant fresh_install error Hi a

[Dspace-devel] Ant fresh_install error

Hi all, I just checked out Keiji's code for DS-1613. It built successfully but failed on the Ant fresh_install at target setup_database. I am emailing the list as the error looks to have nothing to do with his changes so I am hoping it might ring a bell with someone. This is the error… setup_d

Re: [Dspace-devel] current hardware recommendations for DSpace?

Hi Hardy, I am a little wary about recommending hardware, there are so many different use cases for DSpace out there. I was once contacted by an architects office that just wanted somewhere to store their drawings. The danger is that someone considering DSpace may conclude that our recommendation

Re: [Dspace-devel] Should we simply un-deprecate DCValue?

I am a reluctant +1 to undeprecating it. I agree with Graham that DCValue needs to go, but until such time as we provide a real alternative its pointless having it flagged as deprecated. I guess the only benefit to it currently being marked as deprecated is that we might well not even be discuss

[Dspace-devel] DSpace 4.2 released!

Dear DSpace Community: On behalf of the DSpace developers, I would like to formally announce that DSpace 4.2 is now available. DSpace 4.2 is a bug-fix release and contains no new features. DSpace 4.2 can be downloaded immediately at either of the following locations: * SourceForge: https://sour

Re: [Dspace-devel] Is HTML5 widespread enough for DSpace to depend on it?

Personally I would say definitely yes. At the very least we could just move to an HTML5 Doctype to allow for future use. Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh From: Mark H. Wood Sent: 23 July 2014 20:36 To: dspace-devel@lists

[Dspace-devel] Apache HttpClient

Hi all, Looks like historically we had Apache Commons HttpClient v3 managed as a dependency the dspace-parent Pom... commons-httpclient commons-httpclient 3.1 More recently the replacement product Apache Http Components v4 was introduced as

[Dspace-devel] Mirage2 pull request

Hi all, Given that the significant issues with the Mirage2 PR had been addressed I hit the merge button on the PR. It occurred to me after that others may have still wanted more time to review so apologies if I was a little quick off the mark. Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library Universit

[Dspace-devel] DSpace and Google Analytics

Just emailing in case anyone out there has an interest in Google Analytics. I've raised a Jira issue with associated Pull Request for a new feature to embed Google Analytics reporting in DSpace and would be grateful for any feedback. https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2108 https://github.com/

[Dspace-devel] DSpace Sword Client anyone?

With apologies for cross-posting. Hi all, Unfortunately the DSpace Sword Client feature (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/SWORDv1+Client) has an unsupported dependency, Apache Httpclient (http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/). The practical choices are to leave the dependency in plac

[Dspace-devel] Maven optional modules

Hi all, Was away yesterday so just read the notes from the developer meeting. With regards to our Maven optional modules, rather than finding a way to accommodate them in our Pom's should we maybe be looking to not have optional modules? The expectation is that the LNI will be dropped for the n

Re: [Dspace-devel] Maven optional modules

Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh From: ivan.ma...@gmail.com on behalf of helix84 Sent: 14 November 2014 10:25 To: TAYLOR Robin Cc: dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] Maven optional modules Hi Robin, last year we t

Re: [Dspace-devel] We need to think a bit more about how we use the 'statistics' Solr core

Hi Andrea, Just a wee point about GA stats with apologies if I am stating the obvious. You can present data going back as long as you have been collecting it, not just from the moment you enable the DSpace GA Stats XMLUI aspect. Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh

Re: [Dspace-devel] We need to think a bit more about how we use the 'statistics' Solr core

Hi Andrea, You are quite right about the download stats, I had forgotten that. Cheers. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh From: Andrea Schweer Sent: 16 March 2015 02:31 To: TAYLOR Robin Cc: DSpace Developers Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] We

Re: [Dspace-devel] We need to think a bit more about how we use the 'statistics' Solr core

vince administrators to abandon the historical stuff. All possible but a bit messy. Cheers. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh From: Peter Dietz Sent: 24 March 2015 15:34 To: TAYLOR Robin Cc: Andrea Schweer; DSpace Developers Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] We need to think a bit more about h

[Dspace-devel] Repec export

(Apologies for cross-posting) Hi all, We run a Perl script (dspace2redif.pl) periodically that uses OAI-PMH to generate a file which we use to update http://repec.org/. I've forgotten the origins of the script but it was downloaded and I believe is used at other sites. Anyway, we recently upgr

Re: [Dspace-devel] Repec export

Many thanks to Stuart, it worked a treat! Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh From: Stuart Yeates Sent: 15 June 2015 22:05 To: TAYLOR Robin; dspace-tech; DSpace Developers Subject: Re: Repec export We have a highly

Re: [Dspace-devel] PLEASE VOTE on whether to include "Services API" refactoring in DSpace 6.0

+1 This is all good practice, industry standard stuff that we probably should have done ages ago, so well done to the @Mire guys for pushing it forward. Cheers. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh From: Tim Donohue Sent: 06 August 2015 15:47 To: Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge

[Dspace-devel] DSpace deployment methods

Hi all, I notice there was a brief discussion about DSpace deployment methods yesterday in the developer meeting. I would be very interested to hear what others do, what sort of tools they use, what sort of infrastructure they have etc. If anyone is willing to share please do reply. For our par

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace deployment methods

ation specific to that server. Sigh [😊] Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh From: Terry Brady Sent: 14 August 2015 23:40 To: TAYLOR Robin Cc: DSpace Developers Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace deployment methods Robin, I have been

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace deployment methods

to install to obviously). See https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/991 and https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2654 for a bit more info. - Tim On 8/17/2015 5:07 AM, TAYLOR Robin wrote: Hi Terry, That's really useful, thanks. The main problem for me is that configuration is so entwined

[Dspace-devel] Dspace and coding conventions

Hi all, I notice someone kindly loaded a settings file for Eclipse for the agreed coding conventions... https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Code+Contribution+Guidelines#CodeContributionGuidelines-CodingConventions I was wondering if anyone had ever gone to the trouble of creating one for

[Dspace-devel] FW: Dspace and Maven 3

restricted to IntellijIDEA. Thanks, Robin. From: TAYLOR Robin Sent: 25 August 2011 09:02 To: dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Mark Diggory; Graham Triggs Subject: [Dspace-devel] Dspace and Maven 3 Hi all, Following on from yesterday's discu

Re: [Dspace-devel] Using Maven Overlays to customize Submission Process

Hi Cesar, The dspace/modules folders actually overlay the War files which themselves contain the dspace-api.jar. So if your choice of UI is the XMLUI you can overlay a dspace-api class by putting it in the modules/xmlui folder in the same way you would do for an XMLUI class. Does that make sens

Re: [Dspace-devel] Soliciting Initial Contributions to DSpace 3.0

This one is of interest to me so I've assigned it to myself and will make sure it gets reviewed over the coming weeks. Cheers, Robin. From: Steve Swinsburg [steve.swinsb...@anu.edu.au] Sent: 16 July 2012 22:50 To: Sands Alden Fish Cc: dspace-rele...@lists.sourcef

Re: [Dspace-devel] IDE development issues with DSpace 3.0 + build.properties

Actually if you had dspace.config you could activate it exactly as before. Unfortunately there is a wee inconsistency in dspace-oai/pom.xml that needs corrected so you can't do that quite yet. Cheers. From: TAYLOR Robin Sent: 18 October 2012 16: