Monthly Archives: October 2005
Met with Tina
Met with Tina F. Escaja to discuss my most recent findings. As expected, she was thrilled and amazed, and exclaimed that I was a genius.
Dspace Ddied, resurrected
Still tracking down the Dspace/Tomcat problems. Frank told me about the lsof command, which lists files opened by a process. trying that on badger gave no results. trying it on my Mac gave instant results. Hmmm… I did a ps … Continue reading
Vermont Monitoring Cooperative Annual Meeting
Attended the meeting, presented a poster, made some contacts
Scan them barcodes
Spent a fun day making my Mac speak barcodes. This relates back to the Tina art project. I did a number of targeted searches onn the web and managed to find a low-cost software tool that scans barcodes using an … Continue reading
Davis Construction cam
Two meetings with Allen Josey to discuss forthcoming Davis Center construction web cam. Met him along with Jerry Thorton and Randy Spooner and Ray Lavigne to discuss siting and network/power requirements met him individually to figure out why his PC … Continue reading
Dspace Ddied another death
Dspace died again. Same problem This time, I tried a different fix: in the tomcat startup script, I added ulimit -n 4096 to set the number of allowed open filehandles way above the default of 1024 We’ll see what … Continue reading
GLCP=>Dspace Conversion
SLow going as i wade through the metadata in the dtaatbase and figure out where it goes in Dspace Dublin Core implimentation. Think I fiannly have it down now, so onto the coding I go, when I realizie that there … Continue reading
Art Lab Update
Rebuilt local user directories; updated permisions on an Adobe folder to allow PhotoShop "Browse" to work; system updates applied to all 12 machines
GLCP => Dspace
Mapping Geology Landscape Change Program dtabase fields to Dublin Core metadata elements in anticipation of insert a subset of GLCP records in Dspace. Not an easy roadmap, needed to consult many references and :best practices" This one especially helpful, as … Continue reading
Dspace Ddied
Dspace died again. Analyzed logs, made some changes to robots.txt, checked how often cronjobs (especial media filter) were running. Restarted, we’ll see how long it runs now.