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<li>Trying to get search results for a large boolean query given to me by some researchers
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<li>We need to get view and download statistics for the last year from CGSpace
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<li>The only way to get that is using Solr</li>
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<li>Some IP in India is making tons of requests this morning with a normal user agent:</li>
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<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-console" data-lang="console"><span style="display:flex;"><span># awk <span style="color:#e6db74">'{print $1}'</span> /var/log/nginx/api-access.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -h | tail -n <span style="color:#ae81ff">40</span>
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>513743 49.207.196.249
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<h2 id="2024-10-03">2024-10-03</h2>
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<li>I had an idea to get abstracts from OpenAlex
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<li>For <a href="https://docs.openalex.org/api-entities/works/work-object#abstract_inverted_index">copyright reasons they don’t include plain abstracts</a>, but the <a href="https://github.com/J535D165/pyalex">pyalex</a> library can convert them on the fly</li>
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<li>Upgrade CGSpace to DSpace 7.6.2</li>
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<li>While working on the CGIAR Climate Change Synthesis I learned some new tricks with OpenRefine</li>
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<li>A bit of work to clean up duplicate DOIs on CGSpace
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<li>I tried to delete all users who have been inactive since six years ago (July 1, 2018):</li>
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<li>I noticed the licenses were missing from Nilam’s original file so I found a way to check <a href="https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/native-api.html#export-metadata-of-a-dataset-in-various-formats">Dataverse’s API for a persistent identifier</a></li>
<li>We have both Handles and DOIs for these datasets, both from Harvard’s Dataverse</li>
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<li>I dumped all the CGSpace DOIs and resolved them with my <code>crossref_doi_lookup.py</code> script
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<li>Then I did some work to add missing abstracts (about 900!), volumes, issues, licenses, publishers, and types, etc</li>
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