--- title: "March, 2019" date: 2019-03-01T12:16:30+01:00 author: "Alan Orth" tags: ["Notes"] --- ## 2019-03-01 - I checked IITA's 259 Feb 14 records from last month for duplicates using Atmire's Duplicate Checker on a fresh snapshot of CGSpace on my local machine and everything looks good - I am now only waiting to hear from her about where the items should go, though I assume Journal Articles go to IITA Journal Articles collection, etc... - Looking at the other half of Udana's WLE records from 2018-11 - I finished the ones for Restoring Degraded Landscapes (RDL), but these are for Variability, Risks and Competing Uses (VRC) - I did the usual cleanups for whitespace, added regions where they made sense for certain countries, cleaned up the DOI link formats, added rights information based on the publications page for a few items - Most worryingly, there are encoding errors in the abstracts for eleven items, for example: - 68.15% � 9.45 instead of 68.15% ± 9.45 - 2003�2013 instead of 2003–2013 - I think I will need to ask Udana to re-copy and paste the abstracts with more care using Google Docs ## 2019-03-03 - Trying to finally upload IITA's 259 Feb 14 items to CGSpace so I exported them from DSpace Test: ``` $ mkdir 2019-03-03-IITA-Feb14 $ dspace export -i 10568/108684 -t COLLECTION -m -n 0 -d 2019-03-03-IITA-Feb14 ``` - As I was inspecting the archive I noticed that there were some problems with the bitsreams: - First, Sisay didn't include the bitstream descriptions - Second, only five items had bitstreams and I remember in the discussion with IITA that there should have been nine! - I had to refer to the original CSV from January to find the file names, then download and add them to the export contents manually! - After adding the missing bitstreams and descriptions manually I tested them again locally, then imported them to a temporary collection on CGSpace: ``` $ dspace import -a -c 10568/99832 -e aorth@stfu.com -m 2019-03-03-IITA-Feb14.map -s /tmp/2019-03-03-IITA-Feb14 ``` - DSpace's export function doesn't include the collections for some reason, so you need to import them somewhere first, then export the collection metadata and re-map the items to proper owning collections based on their types using OpenRefine or something - After re-importing to CGSpace to apply the mappings, I deleted the collection on DSpace Test and ran the `dspace cleanup` script - Merge the IITA research theme changes from last month to the `5_x-prod` branch ([#413](https://github.com/ilri/DSpace/pull/413)) - I will deploy to CGSpace soon and then think about how to batch tag all IITA's existing items with this metadata - Deploy Tomcat 7.0.93 on CGSpace (linode18) after having tested it on DSpace Test (linode19) for a week ## 2019-03-06 - Abenet was having problems with a CIP user account, I think that the user could not register - I suspect it's related to the email issue that ICT hasn't responded about since last week - As I thought, I still cannot send emails from CGSpace: ``` $ dspace test-email About to send test email: - To: blah@stfu.com - Subject: DSpace test email - Server: smtp.office365.com Error sending email: - Error: javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException ``` - I will send a follow-up to ICT to ask them to reset the password