---
title: "December, 2019"
date: 2019-12-01T11:22:30+02:00
author: "Alan Orth"
categories: ["Notes"]
---
## 2019-12-01
- Upgrade CGSpace (linode18) to Ubuntu 18.04:
- Check any packages that have residual configs and purge them:
- # dpkg -l | grep -E '^rc' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs dpkg -P
- Make sure all packages are up to date and the package manager is up to date, then reboot:
```
# apt update && apt full-upgrade
# apt-get autoremove && apt-get autoclean
# dpkg -C
# reboot
```
- Take some backups:
```
# dpkg -l > 2019-12-01-linode18-dpkg.txt
# tar czf 2019-12-01-linode18-etc.tar.gz /etc
```
- Then check all third-party repositories in /etc/apt to see if everything using "xenial" has packages available for "bionic" and then update the sources:
- # sed -i 's/xenial/bionic/' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list
- Pause the Uptime Robot monitoring for CGSpace
- Make sure the update manager is installed and do the upgrade:
```
# apt install update-manager-core
# do-release-upgrade
```
- After the upgrade finishes, remove Java 11, force the installation of bionic nginx, and reboot the server:
```
# apt purge openjdk-11-jre-headless
# apt install 'nginx=1.16.1-1~bionic'
# reboot
```
- After the server comes back up, remove Python virtualenvs that were created with Python 3.5 and re-run certbot to make sure it's working:
```
# rm -rf /opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/bin/letsencrypt
# rm -rf /opt/ilri/dspace-statistics-api/venv
# /opt/certbot-auto
```
- Clear Ansible's fact cache and re-run the playbooks to update the system's firewalls, SSH config, etc
- Altmetric finally responded to my question about Dublin Core fields
- They shared a [list of fields they use for tracking](https://help.altmetric.com/support/solutions/articles/6000141419-what-metadata-is-required-to-track-our-content-), but it only mentions HTML meta tags, and not fields considered when harvesting via OAI
- Anyways, there might be some areas we can improve on the HTML meta tags, if I look at one [item with a DOI, ISSN, etc](https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101623) I see that we could at least add status (Open Access) and journal title
- I merged a [pull request](https://github.com/ilri/DSpace/pull/438) into the `5_x-prod` branch to add status and journal title to the XHTML meta tags
## 2019-12-02
- Raise the issue of old, low-quality thumbnails with Peter and the CGSpace team
- I suggested that we move manually uploaded thumbnails from the `ORIGINAL` bundle to the `THUMBNAIL` bundle
- Also replace old thumbnails where an item is available on Slideshare or YouTube because those are easy to get new, high-quality thumbnails for
- Continue testing CG Core v2 implementation on DSpace Test
- Compare the OAI QDC representation of a few items on CGSpace vs DSpace Test:
```
$ http 'https://cgspace.cgiar.org/oai/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:cgspace.cgiar.org:10568/104030' > /tmp/cgspace-104030.xml
$ http 'https://dspacetest.cgiar.org/oai/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:cgspace.cgiar.org:10568/104030' > /tmp/dspacetest-104030.xml
```
- The DSpace Test ones actually now capture the DOI, where the CGSpace doesn't...
- And the DSpace Test one doesn't include review status as `dc.description`, but I don't think that's an important field
## 2019-12-04
- Peter noticed that there were about seventy items on CGSpace that were marked as private
- Some have been withdrawn, but I extracted a list of the forty-eight that were not:
```
dspace=# \COPY (SELECT handle, owning_collection FROM item, handle WHERE item.discoverable='f' AND item.in_archive='t' AND handle.resource_id = item.item_id) to /tmp/2019-12-04-CGSpace-private-items.csv WITH CSV HEADER;
COPY 48
```
## 2019-12-05
- Give [presentation about CG Core v2](https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106045) to the MEL Developers' Retreat in Nairobi, Kenya (via Skype)
- Send some pull requests to the cg-core schema repository:
- [HTML syntax fixes](https://github.com/AgriculturalSemantics/cg-core/pull/16)
- [Add LICENSE file](https://github.com/AgriculturalSemantics/cg-core/pull/17)
- [Build main.css using npm build](https://github.com/AgriculturalSemantics/cg-core/pull/18)
## 2019-12-08
- Enrico noticed that the AReS Explorer on CGSpace (linode18) was down
- I only see HTTP 502 in the nginx logs on CGSpace... so I assume it's something wrong with the AReS server
- I ran all system updates on the AReS server (linode20) and rebooted it
- After rebooting the Explorer was accessible again
## 2019-12-09
- Update PostgreSQL JDBC driver to [version 42.2.9](https://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/changelog.html#version_42.2.9) in [Ansible playbooks](https://github.com/ilri/rmg-ansible-public)
- Deploy on DSpace Test (linode19) to test before deploying on CGSpace in a few days
- Altmetric responded to my question about [the WLE item](https://hdl.handle.net/10568/97087) that has a lower score than its DOI
- They say that they will "reprocess" the item "before Christmas"
## 2019-12-11
- Post [message to Yammer about good practices for thumbnails on CGSpace](https://www.yammer.com/dspacedevelopers/#/Threads/show?threadId=454830191804416)
- On the topic of thumbnails, I'm thinking we might want to force regenerate all PDF thumbnails on CGSpace since we upgraded it to Ubuntu 18.04 and got a new ghostscript...
- More discussion about report formats for AReS
- Peter noticed that the Atmire reports weren't showing any statistics before 2019
- I checked and indeed Solr had an issue loading some core last time it was started
- I restarted Tomcat three times before all cores came up successfully
- While I was restarting the Tomcat service I upgraded the PostgreSQL JDBC driver to version 42.2.9, which had been deployed on DSpace Test earlier this week
## 2019-12-16
- Visit CodeObia office to discuss next phase of OpenRXV/AReS development
- We discussed using CSV instead of Excel for tabular reports
- OpenRXV should only have "simple" reports with Dublin Core fields
- AReS should have this as well as a customized "extended" report that has CRPs, Subjects, Sponsors, etc from CGSpace
- We discussed using RTF instead of Word for graphical reports
## 2019-12-17
- Start filing GitHub issues for the reporting features on OpenRXV and AReS
- I created an issue for the "simple" tabular reports on OpenRXV GitHub ([#29](https://github.com/ilri/OpenRXV/issues/29))
- I created an issue for the "extended" tabular reports on AReS GitHub ([#8](https://github.com/ilri/AReS/issues/8))
- I created an issue for "simple" text reports on the OpenRXV GitHub ([#30](https://github.com/ilri/OpenRXV/issues/30))
- I created an issue for "extended" text reports on the AReS GitHub ([#9](https://github.com/ilri/AReS/issues/9))
- I looked into creating RTF documents from HTML in Node.js and there is a library called [html-to-rtf](https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-rtf) that works well, but doesn't support images
- Export a list of all investors (`dc.description.sponsorship`) for Peter to look through and correct:
```
dspace=# \COPY (SELECT DISTINCT text_value as "dc.contributor.sponsor", count(*) FROM metadatavalue WHERE resource_type_id = 2 AND metadata_field_id = 29 GROUP BY text_value ORDER BY count DESC LIMIT 1500) to /tmp/2019-12-17-investors.csv WITH CSV HEADER;
COPY 643
```
## 2019-12-18
- Apply the investor corrections and deletions from Peter on CGSpace:
```
$ ./fix-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/2019-12-17-investors-fix-112.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -f dc.description.sponsorship -m 29 -t correct -d
$ ./delete-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/2019-12-17-investors-delete-68.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -m 29 -f dc.description.sponsorship -d
```