[Dspace-tech] Lock obtain timed out: error

2008-01-28 Thread Chad Hansen
I am doing a fresh_install of dspace 1.4.1. I have followed the installation steps and am running into the following problem. Any time I go to add something, like a new community or collection (these are the only things I have tried so far) I get and internal server error screen. The error messa

Re: [Dspace-tech] Anyone using dc.creator instead of dc.contributor.author?

2008-01-28 Thread Keith Gilbertson
I seem to have found another dependency, in that the OAIDCCrosswalk class that's used by the OAI-PMH interface exposes the contributor.author field as a creator element. This isn't necessary if we're using dc.creator in DSpace. It looks easy enough to change this class so that the contributor.

[Dspace-tech] invalid bitstream message (update!)

2008-01-28 Thread George Kozak
Hi... I see one thing in common, with the bitstreams that aren't working. The PDF's contain a "+" sign in them for instance: Final_Progress_Report_01Aug06+.pdf If I change the name to not include the "+" sign, then everything works OK. *** George Kozak Coordinator Web

[Dspace-tech] invalid bitstream message

2008-01-28 Thread George Kozak
Hi... A couple of weeks ago, I upgraded from DSpace 1.3.2 to DSpace 1.4.2. Today, I started getting e-mail from people that when they click on View/Open they get the following error (this is only on some resources): Invalid Identifier The identifier .pdf does not correspond to a valid Bitst

Re: [Dspace-tech] Compiler error -- DIDLCrosswalk

2008-01-28 Thread Thomas A McGee
45 import org.dspace.content.DCDate; 46 import org.dspace.content.DCValue; Thanks for responding. There is a semicolon at the end of 45. Haven't changed the file (except for testing the compiler with 45 commented out). Best, Tom _ Tom McGee Seton Hall University

Re: [Dspace-tech] Compiler error -- DIDLCrosswalk

2008-01-28 Thread James Rutherford
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:57:58PM +, Thomas A McGee wrote: > [javac] > /home/mcgee/Desktop/dspace-source/dspace-1.4.2-source/src/org/dspace/app/oai/DIDLCrosswalk.java:46: > 'class' or 'interface' expected > [javac] import org.dspace.content.DCValue; > [javac] ^ >

Re: [Dspace-tech] Anyone using dc.creator instead of dc.contributor.author?

2008-01-28 Thread Keith Gilbertson
Thanks Dorothea. I hadn't taken into account that the additional contributors might be upset at not being listed in fields marked as "author", or not being visible on item summary pages, but that makes sense and is worth considering. Dorothea Salo wrote: > > This brings up an interesting detai

Re: [Dspace-tech] Anyone using dc.creator instead of dc.contributor.author?

2008-01-28 Thread Dorothea Salo
> I'd like to change an installation to require dc.creator rather than > dc.contributor.author in the input form, and to configure it to build > the author search index on dc.creator rather than dc.contributor.author. Not too difficult. Change index-forms.xml accordingly, and one SQL query in the

[Dspace-tech] Anyone using dc.creator instead of dc.contributor.author?

2008-01-28 Thread Keith Gilbertson
Hello, This has been discussed on the list previously, but it has been quite a while and I wondered if this has actually been done. In the default metadata schema that ships with DSpace, the dc.creator element is marked with a scope note as "Do not use; only for harvested metadata", while the

[Dspace-tech] Compiler error -- DIDLCrosswalk

2008-01-28 Thread Thomas A McGee
Installing 1.4.2 on Ubuntu, following the basic install directions. The ant fresh_install command stops with this: Buildfile: build.xml compile: [javac] Compiling 1 source file to /home/mcgee/Desktop/dspace-source/dspace-1.4.2-source/build/classes [javac] /home/mcgee/Desktop/d

[Dspace-tech] dspace_migrate on windows

2008-01-28 Thread Nilani Ganeshwaran
Generator Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium) Hi Does dspace_migrate work on windows? I am using dspace 1.4.2. on windows and I am trying dspace import/export functionality. When I run dspace_migrate I getting the error ' is not recognized as internal or external command." Regards Nilani