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.

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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

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Vermont Monitoring Cooperative Annual Meeting

Attended the meeting, presented a poster, made some contacts

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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