[dspace-tech] Testing DOI Server on 7.x QA

Question: For those of you who are on DSpace 7.x or who are currently in the process of migrating to DSpace 7.x, how are your technical teams testing if the DOI and Handle servers will work in production based on the functionality of your QA server? For our set-up, we have some collections conf

[dspace-tech] Is it possible to insert html tags within the i18n labels?

Hello all! We're migrating our DSpace 6.2 instance to DSpace 7.5. We've swapped out some of our custom jsp pages (example: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/policies.jsp) for Angular components. We're a bilingual school, so all the information has to be in both French and English. I'm having a couple

[dspace-tech] DSpace 6.3 to 7.6 Migration: Solr Core Migration Questions

Hello all, We're migrating from DSpace 6.3 to DSpace 7.6. With regard to the Solr cores, we're wondering... what are the OAI and Search cores, and should we migrate those? Did other folks here migrate them during their migrations? Additionally: We're not sure what to do with our legacy statis

[dspace-tech] How to set up Tombstones in DSpace 7.6?

here was a file tombstone.jsp, and customisable text corresponding to it in Messages.properties, ie: jsp.tombstone.title, jsp.tombstone.text Any assistance would be dearly appreciated, and thank you so much for your time. Best, Carolyn Sullivan, B.Sc., M.L.I.S. Systems Librarian for Digit

[dspace-tech] DSpace 7.x Site continually crashing due to bot attacks

Hello, We just launched our DSpace 7.x site yesterday. It's been down for most of the time since the launch because we've had so many bots on the network. Has anyone else experienced this issue and what did you do in response? Thanks, Carolyn. -- All messages to this mailing list should adh

[dspace-tech] Re: How to set up Tombstones in DSpace 7.6?

ne should be displayed automatically when you go to the item page > when not logged in as an admin. The item won't be available via search > after withdrawn, but if you enter the url of the item you will see a simple > note that it has been withdrawn. > > Kind regards, > Matth

[dspace-tech] How to Translate Creative Commons License Selection

Hello, We're a bilingual university and would like the Creative Commons License selection to appear in the language in which the user is viewing the rest of the form. We commented out the cc.license.locale = en line in the dspace.cfg file, but the options next to the radio buttons are still ap

[dspace-tech] DSpace 7.6 Bitstream-level Embargos

In DSpace 6.3, users were able to embargo all uploaded files at once, which was super helpful for when a user uploaded 20+ files to support their thesis. In DSpace 7.6 though, it seems the user has to edit each upload individually to designate an embargo for it. Is there any way to allow a us

[dspace-tech] High CPU usage in DSpace 7.6 leading to server issues, lots of errors/examples (crossposted from Slack)

ial increased bot traffic is common, but tends to decrease over time - Review major errors in DSpace/Tomcat/Postgres/etc. logs - Enable more caching in server-side rendering as that uses the most CPU in Node.js - Seconded by Mark Wood: Increasing the caching will likely re

[dspace-tech] Creative Commons Options not translating in submission form

Hello, For some reason, the creative commons options aren't translating in the submission form, ie: [image: CreativeCommons_030524.png] As pictured, we managed to translate the questions for the French form by removing the default locale (ie. cc.license.locale=en) from dspace.cfg ). The labe

Re: [dspace-tech] Creative Commons Options not translating in submission form

ill try to submit this change for future versions. > > Regards, > > Toni > On 5/3/24 15:49, Carolyn Sullivan wrote: > > Hello, > > For some reason, the creative commons options aren't translating in the > submission form, ie: > > [image: CreativeCommons_03

[dspace-tech] Re: DSpace 7.6 Bitstream-level Embargos

Thanks for the information Tim! On Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 10:46:47 AM UTC-5 DSpace Technical Support wrote: > At this time, there is not a "bulk" embargo option for Bitstreams in the > Submission UI. You are welcome to submit a ticket for this feature, > however we'd need to locate a co

[dspace-tech] How to find number of times a pdf has been downloaded from an item page

Hello, Just wondering--how do we find the number of downloads of a pdf from a given item in DSpace? If you click on 'Statistics' in the toolbar while accessing an item page, is the 'File Visits' section equivalent to 'Downloads'? Thanks, Carolyn. -- All messages to this mailing list should

[dspace-tech] Code for removing option to select CC0 from dropdown in DSpace 7.6

Hello, I know the Creative Commons license selection options come from the legacy CC API, so it's not exactly easy to modify that in the front-end of DSpace, but I was wondering if anyone had found a way of eliminating the CC0 option from the dropdown options? Students often don't understand t

[dspace-tech] Version 7.6 - Merging collections/Moving all materials from collection A to Collection B

Hello all, If I want to merge two collections (ie. move all materials from collection A to collection B and then delete collection A), how do I do that? There's a recommendation for a previous version of DSpace to just export the metadata, change the collection to of A to B, and reupload

[dspace-tech] Is there a way to save the embargo date within the metadata table automatically?

Hello, We'd like to save the embargo date of items in the Dublin Core metadata, but we can't figure out how to do this. We can manually add a field AFTER the item has been accepted to hold the embargo lift date, but what we'd really like to do is have the software automatically take whatever d

[dspace-tech] What is VuFind and have you configured your DSpace 7.6 to import external metadata from it?

Hello all, I'm reviewing the options for importing external metadata to our DSpace 7.6 instance to ensure we have all our API keys configured and etc. One of the options for importing external metadata is through a resource called VuFind. I googled it and found that it's apparently a discover

Re: [dspace-tech] How to find number of times a pdf has been downloaded from an item page

s services like Matomo (but no official work yet): > https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8414 > > Tim > > On Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 9:45:36 AM UTC-5 Carolyn Sullivan wrote: > >> A note to add to the above: >> >> The 'File Visits' section from wh

[dspace-tech] Is it possible to get separate links for DSpace pages in different languages?

Hello, I recently received this request from one of our users: 'One of my clients wants to link to your institutional repository, but the URL is the same in English and French. We believe that it automatically assumes the browser's language, which is not ideal. Is there any way to fix this to

[dspace-tech] Re: What is VuFind and have you configured your DSpace 7.6 to import external metadata from it?

> Rupinder Singh > > On Wednesday 29 May, 2024 at 2:36:38 am UTC+5:30 Carolyn Sullivan wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I'm reviewing the options for importing external metadata to our DSpace >> 7.6 instance to ensure we have all our API keys configured and etc.

[dspace-tech] Configuring importing metadata from external source for EPO and ArXiv

Hello all, Have any of you configured the option to import metadata from an external source for the European Patent Office (EPO) or ArXiv? If yes, have you run into any issues? My problems: (1) I can't actually find a DOI to test whether the EPO option works (it's probably not going to be hea

[dspace-tech] Retrieving Solr Statistics from >7 months ago through DSpace Interface

Hello all, I'm a bit surprised that DSpace 7.x only exposes Solr statistics from the last seven months through the interface. Is there any way to get it to pull and display Solr statistics from farther back or any development work in this area? Thanks, Carolyn. -- All messages to this maili

[dspace-tech] How to update to DataCite Metdata Schema 4?

ing through my code and replacing everything that says http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3 with https://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4/ ? Do I need to tweak my item submission forms somehow? Help. Thanks, Carolyn Sullivan. -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code

[dspace-tech] Importing old Solr Statistics with integer ids instead of uuids for items

Hello all, We have about a year's worth of Solr Statistics from 2013 to 2014 stored in csv files. The owningitem ids are all integers. Is there any way to convert integer ids into uuids so we can upload these to our Solr? Thanks, Carolyn. -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere t

[dspace-tech] Re: Broken DOIs after Restoring Collection from AIP... how to fix?

ms you are hoping to fix. > > Tim > > On Thursday, October 3, 2024 at 9:42:02 AM UTC-5 Carolyn Sullivan wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> A collection was accidentally deleted in our repository and we've >> restored it using an AIP (see this thread >>

[dspace-tech] Re: Broken DOIs after Restoring Collection from AIP... how to fix?

would be deeply appreciated! Carolyn. On Thursday, October 3, 2024 at 3:09:37 PM UTC-4 Carolyn Sullivan wrote: > Thanks for the recommendations, Tim. We've run some tests and are > retrying the restoration now, will let you know how it goes! > > > On Thursday, October 3, 2024 at

Re: [Extern] [dspace-tech] HELP. How to restore DSpace collection from AIP?

mber 23, 2024 at 5:55:17 AM UTC-4 Michael Plate wrote: > Hi Carolyn, > > Am 20.09.24 um 22:05 schrieb Carolyn Sullivan: > > Hello all, > > > > I am sincerely requesting your help. Someone with admin permissions > > deleted a community in DSpace by mistake, and w

[dspace-tech] Re: Dspace 7 Submission page: Change label (custom)

Is it possible that you would do these in the i18n Spanish language packages? There's probably a value for the placeholder text for these text boxes in dspace-7-frontend/src/assets/i18n/es.json5, and if you copy the associated variable name to the dspace-7-frontend/src/themes/custom/assets/i18n

[dspace-tech] HELP. How to restore DSpace collection from AIP?

Hello all, I am sincerely requesting your help. Someone with admin permissions deleted a community in DSpace by mistake, and we're trying to get it back. We're following the documentation provided here: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/AIP+Backup+and+Restore#AIPBackupandRestore-Howdo

[dspace-tech] Broken DOIs after Restoring Collection from AIP... how to fix?

Hello everyone, A collection was accidentally deleted in our repository and we've restored it using an AIP (see this thread for Part I of this adventure). Tragically, when the collection was restored, new handles and intern

[dspace-tech] Means to upload larger bitstreams to a DSpace Item via commandline?

Hello, Our default Spring Boot settings in local.cfg restrict the maximum file upload size to the default 512 MB, same for the size of multipart requests. I'm not sure whether we want to give our users the default privilege to upload larger files. Is there any existing way to enable only adm

[dspace-tech] Do you have MediaViewer enabled; if yes, what's your experience with it? (Crossposting to DSpace Community)

Hello, Just in general, if you do have Media Viewer enabled, how has it been working for you so far on a production server? It's easy to enable, and we have it running on a QA server so far. Before we enable it on our production server though, we just wanted to ask the community whether any

[dspace-tech] How to fulfill request for statistics?

So I recently received a request for these statistics from one of the managers at my institution. For our Theses Collection, they would like me to find: - # of submissions per year/ per day and week (on average) from 2021-2023 - # of processed items per year from 2021-2023 (the reason why I ask

[dspace-tech] Cannot upload csvs to publication collection

Hello all, For some reason, I can't upload csvs to any of our collections that use the publication item-submission form. Has anyone run into this issue before--the form somewhat rejecting specific file types? Running DSpace 7.6.2. Thanks, Carolyn. -- All messages to this mailing list shoul

[dspace-tech] Re: DOIs stuck in registration queue on DSpace but live on Datacite

Dear Joanna, I don't have an answer for your primary question, but regarding DOIs being assigned retroactively to old content, we had the same issue. In fact, our system suddenly minted 4000 DOIs at the time we migrated from DSpace 6 to DSpace 7.6.1. We were using DataCite in our previous ver

[dspace-tech] Re: Curate Task 'Register DOI' not actually registering DOI, error in logs.

d the patch yet that's supposed to prevent it from happening in the future or confirmed that it does in fact work, but here it is: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/9671/commits/9e11e1f9ae69f19e506618d1d0b1fec0059ba165 On Monday, January 13, 2025 at 10:01:25 AM UTC-5 Carolyn Sull

[dspace-tech] Curate Task 'Register DOI' not actually registering DOI, error in logs.

Hello friends, On Thursday, January 9th, our Scholarly Communications Librarian ran a Curate task to register a couple DOIs. Despite this process running without incident many times before, for some reason, the process ran to completion, stated it was successful, and returned the DOIs. Howeve

[dspace-tech] How to stop one collection from being indexed in Google Scholar

Hello, I was wondering whether it was possible to prevent one specific collection from being indexed in Google Scholar or by search engines (ie. such that the only way to view the collection would be by navigating through the links in the DSpace repository itself). I don't thnk it's possib

[dspace-tech] DSpace 7.6.3; 502 Bad Gateway Errors on three specific resources

Hello, So bizarrely, three resources that were created today are giving us 502 Bad Gateway Errors when we try to connect to them via the URL or the Handle. However, if we try to connect to them through the DSpace interface via the collection they're in, we can navigate to the pages in question

[dspace-tech] Re: DSpace 7.6.3; 502 Bad Gateway Errors on three specific resources

Okay, so it was because the three records in question had >50 files attached to them and sign-posting was active, which made the header too large and triggered this error: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8943 On Monday, March 24, 2025 at 4:45:52 PM UTC-4 Carolyn Sullivan wr

[dspace-tech] Re: DSpace 7.6.3; 502 Bad Gateway Errors on three specific resources

ery secure option? On Monday, March 24, 2025 at 4:45:52 PM UTC-4 Carolyn Sullivan wrote: > Hello, > > So bizarrely, three resources that were created today are giving us 502 > Bad Gateway Errors when we try to connect to them via the URL or the > Handle. However, if we try to co

[dspace-tech] DOI registration, 422 error, BAD_ANSWER

Hello all, While our DOIs are getting registered, we've been getting multiple emails about the updates for DOIs failing every day (we once had 437 emails in a month about DOI registration or update failing). Any idea why this might be happening? Typically we get 422 errors and BAD_ANSWER.

[dspace-tech] Alibaba Cloud Traffic -- to block or not?

Hello all, We've been getting a ton of traffic from IP addresses with Alibaba Cloud out of Hong Kong and Singapore that's been overwhelming our servers. Is there any chance that legitimate users could be using Alibaba as an ISP, or would any accesses for Alibaba be coming from programs running

Re: [dspace-tech] Alibaba Cloud Traffic -- to block or not?

at the expense of publicly funded infrastructure. Please continue to drop your information and thoughts on this in the thread, and have a lovely weekend! On Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 8:06:30 PM UTC-4 Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 10:29:16AM -0700, Carolyn Sullivan wrote: >

[dspace-tech] New entity-relationship diagram for DSpace 7.x?

Hello, I was wondering if someone could direct me to a link to the entity-relationship diagram for DSpace 7.x. I have a database schema for DSpace 6.x that I've been using to formulate my queries, but I think the database for DSpace 7.x might be a tad different since I can't see any columns f

[dspace-tech] Re: Klaro: Why should we have it, and how to turn it off if we don't need it?

ite, you can access the popup again by clicking on the "Cookie > settings" link in the footer. > > Tim > > On Friday, February 28, 2025 at 1:12:57 PM UTC-6 Carolyn Sullivan wrote: > >> Thanks for the clarification, Tim! >> >> So with regard to the absence of

Re: [dspace-tech] Means to upload larger bitstreams to a DSpace Item via commandline?

7;ll just need to add a contents file listing the bitstreams to register > and a dublin_core.xml with the uri of the item. > > Kind regards, > Eike Löhden. > Am 04.12.24 um 21:48 schrieb Carolyn Sullivan: > > Hello, > > Our default Spring Boot settings in local.cfg restr

[dspace-tech] Solr Statistics -- Looking at views of metadata page from Solr Statistics Core

Hello, I'm having a weird issue where I'm trying to look at the views of the metadata page for an item using the Solr Core, and they aren't equalling the views as reported on the item's statistics page under 'Views'. Specifically, I'm looking up: http://localhost:1234/solr/#/statistics/query?q

[dspace-tech] Re: Solr Statistics -- Looking at views of metadata page from Solr Statistics Core

desc <http://localhost:1234/solr/statistics/select?fq=id%3A19c02756-3188-480e-b4d6-c43dfcda0a0e&fq=isBot%3Afalse&fq=type%3A2&indent=true&q.op=AND&q=*%3A*&rows=400&sort=time%20desc> On Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12:38:52 PM UTC-5 Carolyn Sullivan wrote: > He

[dspace-tech] Klaro: Why should we have it, and how to turn it off if we don't need it?

Hello, Recently I noticed this pop-up: [image: KlaroPopup_022525.png] Digging suggests that it's from https://github.com/klaro-org/klaro-js A few questions: (1) We don't use Google Analytics or any other services, so I guess we don't need Klaro (am I correct?). How do I get rid of this pop-up t

[dspace-tech] Re: Bulk Access Control on D7.6.3 - Process missed updating policy for some items in the collection

I wonder if this is connected to the problems described here: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/9208 . They mention some items not receiving a policy in a bulk update operation, while others received duplicate policies If so, it looks like it was fixed a month ago for 7.6.4

[dspace-tech] How to add metadata term not available in Edit Item > Metadata > Add dropdown list?

Hello, The Scholarly Communication Librarian at my university would like to add a link to a dataset referenced by an article to that article's metadata record in DSpace. She would like to use dc.relation.references . Unfortunately, dc.relation.references does not appear in the dropdown, ie: [i