diff --git a/content/posts/2023-12.md b/content/posts/2023-12.md
index 6ac29778e..95041eaae 100644
--- a/content/posts/2023-12.md
+++ b/content/posts/2023-12.md
@@ -158,4 +158,31 @@ COPY 102435
- Work a bit on the IFPRI-ISNAR archive from Leigh
- More work on the DSpace 7 home page
+## 2023-12-19
+
+- More work on the DSpace 7 home page
+- The Alliance TIP team is testing deposits to the DSpace 7 REST API and getting an HTTP 500 error
+ - In the DSpace logs I see this after they log in, create the item, and update the metadata:
+
+```
+2023-12-19 17:49:28,022 ERROR unknown unknown org.dspace.rest.Resource @ Something get wrong. Aborting context in finally statement.
+```
+
+- I found some messages on the dspace-tech mailing list suggesting this might be an old bug: https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-tech/c/My1GUFYFGoU/m/tS7-WAJPAwAJ
+ - I restarted Tomcat and told the Alliance TIP team to try again
+
+## 2023-12-20
+
+- The Alliance guys said that submitting via REST works now... sigh, so that's just some old DSpace 5/6 REST API bug
+- I lowercased all our AGROVOC keywords in `dcterms.subject` in SQL:
+
+```console
+dspace=# BEGIN;
+BEGIN
+dspace=*# UPDATE metadatavalue SET text_value=LOWER(text_value) WHERE dspace_object_id IN (SELECT uuid FROM item) AND metadata_field_id=187 AND text_value ~ '[[:upper:]]';
+UPDATE 462
+dspace=*# COMMIT;
+COMMIT
+```
+
diff --git a/docs/2023-12/index.html b/docs/2023-12/index.html
index a86090e6f..f90401781 100644
--- a/docs/2023-12/index.html
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
-
+
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@
"@type": "BlogPosting",
"headline": "December, 2023",
"url": "https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2023-12/",
- "wordCount": "832",
+ "wordCount": "980",
"datePublished": "2023-12-01T08:48:36+03:00",
- "dateModified": "2023-12-12T14:57:07+03:00",
+ "dateModified": "2023-12-18T23:15:27+03:00",
"author": {
"@type": "Person",
"name": "Alan Orth"
@@ -268,7 +268,35 @@
Work a bit on the IFPRI-ISNAR archive from Leigh
More work on the DSpace 7 home page
-
+2023-12-19
+
+- More work on the DSpace 7 home page
+- The Alliance TIP team is testing deposits to the DSpace 7 REST API and getting an HTTP 500 error
+
+- In the DSpace logs I see this after they log in, create the item, and update the metadata:
+
+
+
+2023-12-19 17:49:28,022 ERROR unknown unknown org.dspace.rest.Resource @ Something get wrong. Aborting context in finally statement.
+
+2023-12-20
+
+- The Alliance guys said that submitting via REST works now… sigh, so that’s just some old DSpace 5/6 REST API bug
+- I lowercased all our AGROVOC keywords in
dcterms.subject in SQL:
+
+dspace=# BEGIN;
+BEGIN
+dspace=*# UPDATE metadatavalue SET text_value=LOWER(text_value) WHERE dspace_object_id IN (SELECT uuid FROM item) AND metadata_field_id=187 AND text_value ~ '[[:upper:]]';
+UPDATE 462
+dspace=*# COMMIT;
+COMMIT
+