Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] TAMU OAI Harvester

2009-05-15 Thread Scott Phillips
Thanks Paulo, I went on vacation after we had the conference call and it slipped my mind to post the results. We discussed the options for this patch and decided that because there are no modularity options for the JSPUI, and the administrative interface in the XMLUI that this patch can

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] TAMU OAI Harvester

2009-04-30 Thread Scott Phillips
. Let's try to plan something in the next week if possible. I will also consider if some of this can fit into my presentation as an example. On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Mark H. Wood mw...@iupui.edu wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:47:12PM -0500, Scott Phillips wrote: You make some good

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] TAMU OAI Harvester

2009-04-29 Thread Scott Phillips
Mark, You make some good points here about the patch. I think it may be possible to find some time to refactor the patch in the ways you are suggesting. The problem is similar to a chicken and an egg, which came first. There are challenges to developing addons like you suggest with the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Minho Stats add-on 2.1 for Dspace 1.5.1 XMLUI

2009-04-06 Thread Scott Phillips
The Minho stats package does not integrate with the XMLUI in any version. You must run the JSPUI in order to view and analyze the statistics. The confusion around this steams from misleading statements about the packages ability to read logs generated from the XMLUI. Scott-- On Apr 3,

Re: [Dspace-tech] Where should I place images for Manakin?

2009-03-05 Thread Scott Phillips
We never created a place to store images that are references in Aspects. We were never able to come up with a reason when an aspect would need to do this. That's not categorical, it's just we couldn't think of one so we put off the problem until it actually presented itself. In all the

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] UMinho Statistics Add-on for DSpace

2009-02-20 Thread Scott Phillips
Ricardo, Does the university of Minho plan on developing XMLUI compatibility (i.e. the ability to view statistics from Manakin) in a future release of the statistics addon? Scott-- On Feb 19, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Ricardo Otelo Santos Saraiva Cruz wrote: Hi, There has been a bit of

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-12 Thread Scott Phillips
John, Down here in Texas we also face this challenge to create a federated repository among all institutional repositories across the state. Up until now we've been doing a manual federation process which includes dspace imports and exports plus some scripts that work on those exports.

Re: [Dspace-tech] Problem with IE CSS files in Manakin

2009-02-12 Thread Scott Phillips
Eric, The ability to provide additional CSS files for specific browsers is meant to simplify your life not make it hell - sorry about that. First look at the global sitemap.xmap at the root of the webapp around line 136 you should find something like the following: map:selector

Re: [Dspace-tech] What to do with a new xmlui theme

2009-02-12 Thread Scott Phillips
Technically you can put you're theme anywhere you want so long as the tomcat process has read access to the location and you adjust the xmlui.xconf appropriately. Most people just place their themes inside the source tree under the themes/ directory while developing it. Once you're ready

Re: [Dspace-tech] Manakin cache issues (1.4.2)

2009-01-29 Thread Scott Phillips
yes, there are some cache issues with Manakin 1.1 on DSpace 1.4.2, somewhere way back in the email archive for dspace-dev there is a patch that fixes the issue... Or alternatively you could update to DSpace 1.5.0 or 1.5.1... And finally if it's not going to cause problems you can just

Re: [Dspace-tech] How to order the articles within an issue

2009-01-22 Thread Scott Phillips
You may want to look at a Journal collection we've done. It doesn't completely address the problem you're asking about but is in the same sphere, and i second what Mark said, it is likely best to not use communities and collections in that manor.

Re: [Dspace-tech] Use of Export feature in dspace 1.5

2008-12-03 Thread Scott Phillips
Geetha, This feature is available to allow community and collection administrators to download a copy of their collection. This allows them to take their content and move to another system if they wish, or in one case we have here run a local DSpace instance with the collection. Scott--

[Dspace-tech] Batch Import document

2008-07-21 Thread Scott Phillips
DSpacers, It's a funny thing, the DSpace Batch Import Format (of which there are two) are not documented anywhere other than looking at the source code. We've run across the situation where a department has some content to put into the repository and the resources to create a batch

Re: [Dspace-tech] Achieving security by obscurity

2008-07-08 Thread Scott Phillips
We wanted to expose dspace's metadata in a way that can be used by other applications. They are nice restfull urls that are actionable and easily predictable. There are a few themes that will do client side parsing of those urls in javascript, it opens the possibility for other things to

Re: [Dspace-tech] Repository for Manakin 1.1 patches?

2008-06-25 Thread Scott Phillips
There will be no future releases of a stand alone version of Manakin. Anyone who is using Manakin 1.1 should move to DSpace 1.5 with integrated Manakin. Scott-- On Jun 25, 2008, at 7:53 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: Where should one send patches for Manakin 1.1? Yeah, we should be moving to

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] Change displayed item metadata(XMLUI)

2008-04-21 Thread Scott Phillips
Use the URLs: handle/123456789/9?XML handle/123456789/9?show=fullXML Scott-- On Apr 21, 2008, at 12:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, my metadata appears in full item view (url - handle/123456789/9?show=full) and if i append ?XML nothing happens. i can get xml with

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] Change displayed itemmetadata(XMLUI)

2008-04-21 Thread Scott Phillips
Oh, sorry. I thought have thought a step a head in answering your question. Yes, adding the XML will give you the DRI page. However the DRI page no longer includes proper metadata, instead it includes a reference to the metadata. So you see the line: reference repositoryID=123456789

Re: [Dspace-tech] [DSpace 1.5] matter of encoding

2008-04-16 Thread Scott Phillips
Can you explain where, what fields were giving you the incorrect encoding? Also what is your setup - are you using Tomcat or Apache with AJP? Did you remember to set your tomcat connector's URIencoding to UTF-8? Scott-- On Apr 16, 2008, at 8:42 AM, BAILLY, Vincent wrote: Hello, I

Re: [Dspace-tech] item rating system

2008-04-09 Thread Scott Phillips
George, This been an often requested feature that is well suited for Manakin. I know several people have it on their to-do list but none have started working on a project of this type. I think several would appreciate Edinburgh being able to take the lead on this. Scott-- On Apr 7,

Re: [Dspace-tech] item rating system

2008-04-09 Thread Scott Phillips
that is persisting individual ratings, compiling them and presenting recommendations must surely be deeper... Scott Phillips wrote: George, This been an often requested feature that is well suited for Manakin. I know several people have it on their to-do list but none have started working

Re: [Dspace-tech] Regarding Video Content Support in DSpace

2008-04-02 Thread Scott Phillips
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

[Dspace-tech] Alternative instructions for building SWORD

2008-03-29 Thread Scott Phillips
Everyone, There have been some build problems identified with the recent release of sword in dspace 1.5, below you will find a set of alternative build instructions to solve these problems. cd [dspace-source]/dspace-sword/ mvn -Ddspace.config=/path/to/dspace.cfg package cd

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Alternative instructions for building SWORD

2008-03-29 Thread Scott Phillips
has started handling Continuous Integration on the 1.5.x branch... this includes producing interim builds of the releases... so another alternative could be to direct users to work with those as an alternative to using the release until we cut 1.5.1 -Mark On Mar 29, 2008, at 11:59 AM, Scott

Re: [Dspace-tech] Older versions of Dspace?

2008-03-26 Thread Scott Phillips
Previously on SourceForge versions older than 2 or 3 releases had been tagged as hidden. I corrected that when I put up the 1.5 release because it made sense that all stable releases should be public, and only old beta alphas are hidden. However the previous advice is correct, all you

Re: [Dspace-tech] Oracle and DSpace 1.5 and ILIKE

2008-03-25 Thread Scott Phillips
Rick, Thank you for the bug report. Unfortunately this patch did not make it into the 1.5 release, which occurred earlier (before the original email). The announcement of the release will be going out tomorrow morning. The release has been picked up and is in the Central Maven Repository

[Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5

2008-03-25 Thread Scott Phillips
and database issues, and Mark Diggory for resolving build problems. Scott Phillips Research and Development Coordinator Texas Digital Library and Texas AM University Libraries [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Check out the new

Re: [Dspace-tech] news, javascript and Manakin

2008-03-19 Thread Scott Phillips
javascript would need to be at the theme layer. By default Manakin will provide set the RSS feeds in the HTML header and most browsers will put an icon at the end of the URL bar for them. If you would like to change this behavior then you will need to customize it in a theme. Scott-- On

Re: [Dspace-tech] LDAP on dspace / Manakin

2008-03-18 Thread Scott Phillips
This may not help your problem with 1.1a, but I looking in DSpace 1.5 and it has the same unprotected NPE problem. I've committed a fix for that it but I am unable to test LDAP so there may be other problems past that. Scott-- On Mar 14, 2008, at 6:08 AM, Mika Stenberg wrote: I just

Re: [Dspace-tech] Customizing news.xml

2008-03-18 Thread Scott Phillips
George, Thank you for finding and solving this bug - I have committed a fix into the 1.5 branch. I also place a default news-xmlui.xml file for those doing a fresh install so that they will have an example copy to modify. Here's the default that I supplied: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 release roadmap

2008-03-18 Thread Scott Phillips
. Download Link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19984package_id=267976release_id=585287 Scott-- On Mar 10, 2008, at 10:01 PM, Scott Phillips wrote: DSpace Community, The second beta release of DSpace 1.5 is now available on SourceForge.net. There is no test-a-thon

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 release roadmap

2008-03-10 Thread Scott Phillips
a few hours before updating. On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:58 AM, Scott Phillips wrote: DSpace Community, We have seen lots of progress lately to move us more towards the DSpace 1.5 release but there is still more to do. The major road blocks that have been a challenge to over come

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace/Manakin questions ...

2008-03-06 Thread Scott Phillips
Reuben, See my answers below: On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:20 AM, Reuben Pasquini wrote: Hello! We're evaluating several packages for setting up an institutional repository. I'm very impressed with D-Space, but have a few questions - hope the list can help me out. *. It looks like manakin

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace/Manakin questions ...

2008-03-06 Thread Scott Phillips
Not that I know of. The development path as I understand it is moving away from JSP altogether, in the direction of Manakin. I don't know how I'd throw a Dreamweaver dev at Manakin; I suppose I might throw a webcrawler at my Manakin instance and pass over the resulting HTML/CSS to them, but

Re: [Dspace-tech] Error in filter-media

2008-03-04 Thread Scott Phillips
Have you tried using the pdffilter.largepdfs and pdffilter.skiponmemoryexception parameters? Turning on largepdfs will tell pdfbox to use a temporary file while processing the pdf instead of keeping it all in memory. It will use the standard java.io.tmpdir directory to store them in. In

Re: [Dspace-tech] Error in filter-media

2008-03-04 Thread Scott Phillips
-B702)[NCI INFORMATION SYSTEMS] wrote: Hi Scott, Thanks for the info, but can you tell me exactly where to put/ how to format the parameters? Do they go on the dsrun command? Thanks again, Sue From: Scott Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 6:51 PM

[Dspace-tech] Manakin Theme Tutorial

2008-02-28 Thread Scott Phillips
Everyone, Alexey, our Manakin theme guru here at AM, has posted a new Manakin theme tutorial on the wiki. I hope this will help out those who are in the process of creating their own themes. It covers the basic mechanism of creating a new theme, some helpful paradigms on how to tackle

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 beta 1

2008-02-15 Thread Scott Phillips
The DSpace authorization system is showing it's age and has several problems that have remained unaddressed. In my opinion the principle problem is that it does not recognize the difference between a role and a permission. Where a role is something like submitter, or administrator, and

[Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 Maven

2008-02-13 Thread Scott Phillips
DSpace Community, One of the major upgrades that is forthcoming with the 1.5 release of DSpace is a new Maven-based build system. I wanted to take some time to explain why we have made this choice and what it means for the community. Maven is a software tool from the Apache Foundation that

[Dspace-tech] Beta 1 has been released

2008-02-13 Thread Scott Phillips
Fellow DSpacers, The first beta for DSpace 1.5 has been released. You may either checkout the new tag directly from SVN or download the release from sourceforge. One sourceforge you will not that there are two types of releases: dspace-1.5.0-beta1-release dspace-1.5.0-beta1-src-release

[Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 release roadmap

2008-02-06 Thread Scott Phillips
DSpace Community, We have seen lots of progress lately to move us more towards the DSpace 1.5 release but there is still more to do. The major road blocks that have been a challenge to over come with this release is the documentation. Looking over the state of things today, there is

Re: [Dspace-tech] A few questions

2008-01-17 Thread Scott Phillips
Yinjin, When you add ?XML to the end of a url you adding an extra URL parameter this works when there are no other parameters in the url string (i.e. there already exists an ? in the url string). In this case you need to add XML to the end of the parameter. The ? character says starts a

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace advanced search

2008-01-10 Thread Scott Phillips
Ying, The advanced search component could be nice to have it configurable... in the sense that it follows the jspui i.e. listening to the index configuration. It could also be more configurable to make it easier for themes to add new indexs and field types. However right now I am not

Re: [Dspace-tech] can we use Manakin with the control vocabularies plugin

2008-01-10 Thread Scott Phillips
Terry, Short answer: no. Manakin doesn't support the controlled vocabularies plugin, mostly because it uses a pop-up window which are hard to deal with. I understand that there is or may be a project at the University of North Texas to solve this problem. Scott-- On Jan 10, 2008, at

Re: [Dspace-tech] Mapping Manakin Templates to Pages

2008-01-04 Thread Scott Phillips
. item metadata on the item page). Correct? -sf On Jan 4, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Scott Phillips wrote: Sands, Manakin does not have a template per page, so there is not a template to be found for a particular page. The set of templates used to transform a page are determined based

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace 1.5 customizable submission

2008-01-03 Thread Scott Phillips
Mika + Tim, I was under the impression that the two xml files had been merged together so you only need one supported by either XMLUI or JSPUI? The XMLUI only adds an extra tag in it for which presentation class to use. Tim can you shed any light on this? Scott-- On Jan 3, 2008, at 8:07

Re: [Dspace-tech] Manakin theme inheritance

2008-01-03 Thread Scott Phillips
Dorothea, This is a good question, and it's a bit open as too what the best practice is in my opinion. I think it is okay for themes to have dependencies to other themes as long as that dependency is document and enforced (preferably through maven). One concept that we've been using is to

Re: [Dspace-tech] Debugging XSLT in Manakin

2008-01-03 Thread Scott Phillips
Dorothea, Sorry for the late reply, catching up on email from the break I see you've already had your specific problem answered. But I'd like to chime in with a bit general advise. When doing development with XSL it's a pain to have it running live on the site as you pointed out.

Re: [Dspace-tech] dspace sword

2007-12-11 Thread Scott Phillips
Richard, That's really great, sword looks exciting. In my opinion its release is too late for inclusion in 1.5. We need to focus on documentation and testing of what is all-ready a massive release (possibly the biggest one since 1.0) instead of adding new features and pushing the release

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 Test-a-thon

2007-11-07 Thread Scott Phillips
Scott-- On Nov 2, 2007 3:34 PM, Scott Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I propose that we have our first DSpace 1.5 test-a-thon next week on November 7th. The event would continue all day, across all time zones. The basic idea is that this day is set aside for people to test the release, identify

Re: [Dspace-tech] Encoding URLs in Manakin

2007-11-07 Thread Scott Phillips
I can add two things,first to reiterate graham point and then to add we're not by default using xstl 2.0 in manakin, just to keep things simpiler. However if your theme needs 2.0 it is not hard to add it. We should probably create the cocoon definition for it and include the library as a