<li>Linode sent an alert that CGSpace (linode18) was using 350% CPU for the past two hours</li>
<li>I looked in the Activity pane of the Admin Control Panel and it seems that Google, Baidu, Yahoo, and Bing are all crawling with massive numbers of bots concurrently (~100 total, mostly Baidu and Google)</li>
<li>The good thing is that, according to <code>dspace.log.2017-08-01</code>, they are all using the same Tomcat session</li>
<li>This means our Tomcat Crawler Session Valve is working</li>
<li>But many of the bots are browsing dynamic URLs like:
<ul>
<li>/handle/10568/3353/discover</li>
<li>/handle/10568/16510/browse</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The <code>robots.txt</code> only blocks the top-level <code>/discover</code> and <code>/browse</code> URLs… we will need to find a way to forbid them from accessing these!</li>
<li>Relevant issue from DSpace Jira (semi resolved in DSpace 6.0): <ahref="https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2962">https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2962</a></li>
<li>It turns out that we’re already adding the <code>X-Robots-Tag "none"</code> HTTP header, but this only forbids the search engine from <em>indexing</em> the page, not crawling it!</li>
<li>Also, the bot has to successfully browse the page first so it can receive the HTTP header…</li>
<li>We might actually have to <em>block</em> these requests with HTTP 403 depending on the user agent</li>
<li>Abenet pointed out that the CGIAR Library Historical Archive collection I sent July 20th only had ~100 entries, instead of 2415</li>
<li>This was due to newline characters in the <code>dc.description.abstract</code> column, which caused OpenRefine to choke when exporting the CSV</li>
<li>I exported a new CSV from the collection on DSpace Test and then manually removed the characters in vim using <code>g/^$/d</code></li>
<li>Then I cleaned up the author authorities and HTML characters in OpenRefine and sent the file back to Abenet</li>
</ul>
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2017-06-01 After discussion with WLE and CGSpace content people, we decided to just add one metadata field for the WLE Research Themes The cg.identifier.wletheme field will be used for both Phase I and Phase II Research Themes Then we’ll create a new sub-community for Phase II and create collections for the research themes there The current “Research Themes” community will be renamed to “WLE Phase I Research Themes” Tagged all items in the current Phase I collections with their appropriate themes Create pull request to add Phase II research themes to the submission form: #328 Add cg.
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2017-05-01 ICARDA apparently started working on CG Core on their MEL repository They have done a few cg.* fields, but not very consistent and even copy some of CGSpace items: https://mel.cgiar.org/xmlui/handle/20.500.11766/6911?show=full https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/73683 2017-05-02 Atmire got back about the Workflow Statistics issue, and apparently it’s a bug in the CUA module so they will send us a pull request 2017-05-04 Sync DSpace Test with database and assetstore from CGSpace Re-deploy DSpace Test with Atmire’s CUA patch for workflow statistics, run system updates, and restart the server Now I can see the workflow statistics and am able to select users, but everything returns 0 items Megan says there are still some mapped items are not appearing since last week, so I forced a full index-discovery -b Need to remember to check if the collection has more items (currently 39 on CGSpace, but 118 on the freshly reindexed DSPace Test) tomorrow: https://cgspace.
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<li>Merge one change to CCAFS flagships that I had forgotten to remove last month (“MANAGING CLIMATE RISK”): <ahref="https://github.com/ilri/DSpace/pull/317">https://github.com/ilri/DSpace/pull/317</a></li>
<li>Quick proof-of-concept hack to add <code>dc.rights</code> to the input form, including some inline instructions/hints:</li>
</ul>
<p><imgsrc="/cgspace-notes/2017/04/dc-rights.png"alt="dc.rights in the submission form"></p>
<ul>
<li>Remove redundant/duplicate text in the DSpace submission license</li>
<li>Testing the CMYK patch on a collection with 650 items:</li>
<li>Run the 279 CIAT author corrections on CGSpace</li>
</ul>
<h2id="2017-03-02">2017-03-02</h2>
<ul>
<li>Skype with Michael and Peter, discussing moving the CGIAR Library to CGSpace</li>
<li>CGIAR people possibly open to moving content, redirecting library.cgiar.org to CGSpace and letting CGSpace resolve their handles</li>
<li>They might come in at the top level in one “CGIAR System” community, or with several communities</li>
<li>I need to spend a bit of time looking at the multiple handle support in DSpace and see if new content can be minted in both handles, or just one?</li>
<li>Need to send Peter and Michael some notes about this in a few days</li>
<li>Also, need to consider talking to Atmire about hiring them to bring ORCiD metadata to REST / OAI</li>
<li>Filed an issue on DSpace issue tracker for the <code>filter-media</code> bug that causes it to process JPGs even when limiting to the PDF thumbnail plugin: <ahref="https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3516">DS-3516</a></li>
<li>Discovered that the ImageMagic <code>filter-media</code> plugin creates JPG thumbnails with the CMYK colorspace when the source PDF is using CMYK</li>
<li>Interestingly, it seems DSpace 4.x’s thumbnails were sRGB, but forcing regeneration using DSpace 5.x’s ImageMagick plugin creates CMYK JPGs if the source PDF was CMYK (see <ahref="https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/51999">10568/51999</a>):</li>
<li>I checked to see if the Solr sharding task that is supposed to run on January 1st had run and saw there was an error</li>
<li>I tested on DSpace Test as well and it doesn’t work there either</li>
<li>I asked on the dspace-tech mailing list because it seems to be broken, and actually now I’m not sure if we’ve ever had the sharding task run successfully over all these years</li>
</ul>
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<li>CGSpace was down for five hours in the morning while I was sleeping</li>
<li>While looking in the logs for errors, I see tons of warnings about Atmire MQM:</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>2016-12-02 03:00:32,352 WARN com.atmire.metadataquality.batchedit.BatchEditConsumer @ BatchEditConsumer should not have been given this kind of Subject in an event, skipping: org.dspace.event.Event(eventType=CREATE, SubjectType=BUNDLE, SubjectID=70316, ObjectType=(Unknown), ObjectID=-1, TimeStamp=1480647632305, dispatcher=1544803905, detail=[null], transactionID="TX157907838689377964651674089851855413607")
2016-12-02 03:00:32,353 WARN com.atmire.metadataquality.batchedit.BatchEditConsumer @ BatchEditConsumer should not have been given this kind of Subject in an event, skipping: org.dspace.event.Event(eventType=MODIFY_METADATA, SubjectType=BUNDLE, SubjectID =70316, ObjectType=(Unknown), ObjectID=-1, TimeStamp=1480647632309, dispatcher=1544803905, detail="dc.title", transactionID="TX157907838689377964651674089851855413607")
2016-12-02 03:00:32,353 WARN com.atmire.metadataquality.batchedit.BatchEditConsumer @ BatchEditConsumer should not have been given this kind of Subject in an event, skipping: org.dspace.event.Event(eventType=ADD, SubjectType=ITEM, SubjectID=80044, Object Type=BUNDLE, ObjectID=70316, TimeStamp=1480647632311, dispatcher=1544803905, detail="THUMBNAIL", transactionID="TX157907838689377964651674089851855413607")
2016-12-02 03:00:32,353 WARN com.atmire.metadataquality.batchedit.BatchEditConsumer @ BatchEditConsumer should not have been given this kind of Subject in an event, skipping: org.dspace.event.Event(eventType=ADD, SubjectType=BUNDLE, SubjectID=70316, Obje ctType=BITSTREAM, ObjectID=86715, TimeStamp=1480647632318, dispatcher=1544803905, detail="-1", transactionID="TX157907838689377964651674089851855413607")
2016-12-02 03:00:32,353 WARN com.atmire.metadataquality.batchedit.BatchEditConsumer @ BatchEditConsumer should not have been given this kind of Subject in an event, skipping: org.dspace.event.Event(eventType=MODIFY, SubjectType=ITEM, SubjectID=80044, ObjectType=(Unknown), ObjectID=-1, TimeStamp=1480647632351, dispatcher=1544803905, detail=[null], transactionID="TX157907838689377964651674089851855413607")
</code></pre><ul>
<li>I see thousands of them in the logs for the last few months, so it’s not related to the DSpace 5.5 upgrade</li>
<li>I’ve raised a ticket with Atmire to ask</li>
<li>Another worrying error from dspace.log is:</li>
</ul>
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