CGSpace Notes

2021-03-01

• Discuss some OpenRXV issues with Abdullah from CodeObia
  • He’s trying to work on the DSpace 6+ metadata schema autoimport using the DSpace 6+ REST API
  • Also, we found some issues building and running OpenRXV currently due to ecosystem shift in the Node.js dependencies

2021-02-01

• Abenet said that CIP found more duplicate records in their export from AReS
  • I re-opened the issue on OpenRXV where we had previously noticed this
  • The shared link where the duplicates are is here: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/explorer/shared/heEOz3YBnXdK69bR2ra6
• I had a call with CodeObia to discuss the work on OpenRXV
• Check the results of the AReS harvesting from last night:

$ curl -s 'http://localhost:9200/openrxv-items-temp/_count?q=*&pretty'
{
  "count" : 100875,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 1,
    "successful" : 1,
    "skipped" : 0,
    "failed" : 0
  }
}

2021-01-03

• Peter notified me that some filters on AReS were broken again
  • It’s the same issue with the field names getting .keyword appended to the end that I already filed an issue on OpenRXV about last month
  • I fixed the broken filters (careful to not edit any others, lest they break too!)
• Fix an issue with start page number for the DSpace REST API and statistics API in OpenRXV
  • The start page had been “1” in the UI, but in the backend they were doing some gymnastics to adjust to the zero-based offset/limit/page of the DSpace REST API and the statistics API
  • I adjusted it to default to 0 and added a note to the admin screen
  • I realized that this issue was actually causing the first page of 100 statistics to be missing…
  • For example, this item has 51 views on CGSpace, but 0 on AReS

2020-12-01

• Atmire responded about the issue with duplicate data in our Solr statistics
  • They noticed that some records in the statistics-2015 core haven’t been migrated with the AtomicStatisticsUpdateCLI tool yet and assumed that I haven’t migrated any of the records yet
  • That’s strange, as I checked all ten cores and 2015 is the only one with some unmigrated documents, as according to the cua_version field
  • I started processing those (about 411,000 records):

Notes about the DSpace 6 upgrade on CGSpace in 2020-11.

2020-11-01

• Continue with processing the statistics-2019 Solr core with the AtomicStatisticsUpdateCLI tool on DSpace Test
  • So far we’ve spent at least fifty hours to process the statistics and statistics-2019 core… wow.

2020-10-06

• Add tests for the new /items POST handlers to the DSpace 6.x branch of my dspace-statistics-api
  • It took a bit of extra work because I had to learn how to mock the responses for when Solr is not available
  • Tag and release version 1.3.0 on GitHub: https://github.com/ilri/dspace-statistics-api/releases/tag/v1.3.0
• Trying to test the changes Atmire sent last week but I had to re-create my local database from a recent CGSpace dump
  • During the FlywayDB migration I got an error:

2020-09-02

• Replace Marissa van Epp for Rhys Bucknall in the CCAFS groups on CGSpace because Marissa no longer works at CCAFS
• The AReS Explorer hasn’t updated its index since 2020-08-22 when I last forced it
  • I restarted it again now and told Moayad that the automatic indexing isn’t working
• Add Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT to affiliations on CGSpace
• Abenet told me that the general search text on AReS doesn’t get reset when you use the “Reset Filters” button
  • I filed a bug on OpenRXV: https://github.com/ilri/OpenRXV/issues/39
• I filed an issue on OpenRXV to make some minor edits to the admin UI: https://github.com/ilri/OpenRXV/issues/40

2020-08-02

• I spent a few days working on a Java-based curation task to tag items with ISO 3166-1 Alpha2 country codes based on their cg.coverage.country text values
  • It looks up the names in ISO 3166-1 first, and then in our CGSpace countries mapping (which has five or so of Peter’s preferred “display” country names)
  • It implements a “force” mode too that will clear existing country codes and re-tag everything
  • It is class based so I can easily add support for other vocabularies, and the technique could even be used for organizations with mappings to ROR and Clarisa…

2020-07-01

• A few users noticed that CGSpace wasn’t loading items today, item pages seem blank
  • I looked at the PostgreSQL locks but they don’t seem unusual
  • I guess this is the same “blank item page” issue that we had a few times in 2019 that we never solved
  • I restarted Tomcat and PostgreSQL and the issue was gone
• Since I was restarting Tomcat anyways I decided to redeploy the latest changes from the 5_x-prod branch and I added a note about COVID-19 items to the CGSpace frontpage at Peter’s request