CGSpace Notes

Documenting day-to-day work on the CGSpace repository.

August, 2024

2024-08-08

  • While working on the CGIAR Climate Change Synthesis I learned some new tricks with OpenRefine
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July, 2024

2024-07-01

  • A bit of work to clean up duplicate DOIs on CGSpace
    • A handful of book chapters, working papers, and journal articles using the wrong DOI
  • I tried to delete all users who have been inactive since six years ago (July 1, 2018):
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May, 2024

2024-05-01

  • I dumped all the CGSpace DOIs and resolved them with my crossref_doi_lookup.py script
    • Then I did some work to add missing abstracts (about 900!), volumes, issues, licenses, publishers, and types, etc
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January, 2024

2024-01-02

  • Work on preparation of new server for DSpace 7 migration
    • I’m not quite sure what we need to do for the Handle server
    • For now I just ran the dspace make-handle-config script and diffed it with the one from DSpace 6
    • I sent the bundle to the Handle admins to make sure it’s OK before we do the migration
  • Continue testing and debugging the cgspace-java-helpers on DSpace 7
  • Work on IFPRI ISNAR archive cleanup
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