Category Archives: Dspace

Dspace is a institutional data repository that CIT is testing.

Dspace Failed

Posted on May 11, 2006 by Wesley Wright

Dspace failed. Inestigated, no obvious reason why it failed. Restarted,

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Dspace and Google

Posted on October 31, 2005 by Wesley Wright

Buddy Tignor curious about how/if/why/ehen Google finds images in Dspace. Pointed him to Google FAQs, adjusted the robots.txt on badger. Google has found at least 2900 images on badger.

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Dspace Fixed

Posted on October 19, 2005 by Wesley Wright

Spent considerable time yesterday and today watching and analyzing output from the lsof command, which showed a mess of  open assettstore files that never seemed to close. After repeated writings to the Dspace-tech community, I finally received this from Richard … Continue reading →

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Dspace Ddied another death

Posted on October 11, 2005 by Wesley Wright

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

Posted on October 10, 2005 by Wesley Wright

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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GLCP => Dspace

Posted on October 6, 2005 by Wesley Wright

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

Posted on October 5, 2005 by Wesley Wright

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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Dspace woes

Posted on September 28, 2005 by Wesley Wright

Keeps dying with a "Too many open files" message Seems related to high number of simultaneous page views, perhaps from a robot? Experimenting with robots.txt, enabled access_log, need to watch logs and patterns dspace-tech list has been no help.

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Dspace LDAP finishing touches

Posted on September 19, 2005 by Wesley Wright

The last bits of the puzzle. Wanted to force users ths SSL port for login, but not necessarily for anything else Wanted LDAP authenticated users forced into the UVM group, so that collections private to UVM could be accessed by … Continue reading →

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Dspace: Upgrade from 1.3alpha1 to 1.3.1

Posted on September 15, 2005 by Wesley Wright

Create/alter aliases dspace-last and dspace-current to reflect new /usr/local/src directory structure compare /usr/local/src/dspace-last/conf/dspace.cfg to /usr/local/src/dspace-last/conf/dspace.cfg, merge copy extra jar files from dspace-last/lib to dspace-current-lib: cd /usr/local/src/dspace-current cp ../dspace-last/lib/jai_* lib cp ../dspace-last/lib/mlibwrapper_jai.jar lib cp ../dspace-last/lib/postgresql.jar lib Remove the old version of … Continue reading →

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