Add notes for 2023-12-20

content/posts/2023-12.md

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 - 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
+```
+
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