CGSpace Notes

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

July, 2020

by Alan Orth in  Notes

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
  • Also, Linode is alerting that we had high outbound traffic rate early this morning around midnight AND high CPU load later in the morning
  • First looking at the traffic in the morning:
# cat /var/log/nginx/*.log.1 /var/log/nginx/*.log | grep -E "01/Jul/2020:(00|01|02|03|04)" | goaccess --log-format=COMBINED -
...
9659 33.56%    1  0.08% 340.94 MiB 64.39.99.13
3317 11.53%    1  0.08% 871.71 MiB 199.47.87.140
2986 10.38%    1  0.08%  17.39 MiB 199.47.87.144
2286  7.94%    1  0.08%  13.04 MiB 199.47.87.142
  • 64.39.99.13 belongs to Qualys, but I see they are using a normal desktop user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.1.1 Safari/605.1.15
  • I will purge hits from that IP from Solr
  • The 199.47.87.x IPs belong to Turnitin, and apparently they are NOT marked as bots and we have 40,000 hits from them in 2020 statistics alone:
$ curl -s "http://localhost:8081/solr/statistics/select" -d "q=userAgent:/Turnitin.*/&rows=0" | grep -oE 'numFound="[0-9]+"'
numFound="41694"
  • They used to be “TurnitinBot”… hhmmmm, seems they use both: https://turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html
  • I will add Turnitin to the DSpace bot user agent list, but I see they are reqesting robots.txt and only requesting item pages, so that’s impressive! I don’t need to add them to the “bad bot” rate limit list in nginx
  • While looking at the logs I noticed eighty-one IPs in the range 185.152.250.x making little requests this user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0
  • The IPs all belong to HostRoyale:
# cat /var/log/nginx/*.log /var/log/nginx/*.log.1 | grep '01/Jul/2020' | awk '{print $1}' | grep 185.152.250. | sort | uniq | wc -l
81
# cat /var/log/nginx/*.log /var/log/nginx/*.log.1 | grep '01/Jul/2020' | awk '{print $1}' | grep 185.152.250. | sort | uniq | sort -h
185.152.250.1
185.152.250.101
185.152.250.103
185.152.250.105
185.152.250.107
185.152.250.111
185.152.250.115
185.152.250.119
185.152.250.121
185.152.250.123
185.152.250.125
185.152.250.129
185.152.250.13
185.152.250.131
185.152.250.133
185.152.250.135
185.152.250.137
185.152.250.141
185.152.250.145
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185.152.250.167
185.152.250.17
185.152.250.171
185.152.250.183
185.152.250.189
185.152.250.191
185.152.250.197
185.152.250.201
185.152.250.205
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185.152.250.239
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185.152.250.249
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185.152.250.251
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185.152.250.27
185.152.250.29
185.152.250.3
185.152.250.31
185.152.250.39
185.152.250.41
185.152.250.47
185.152.250.5
185.152.250.59
185.152.250.63
185.152.250.65
185.152.250.67
185.152.250.7
185.152.250.71
185.152.250.73
185.152.250.77
185.152.250.81
185.152.250.85
185.152.250.89
185.152.250.9
185.152.250.93
185.152.250.95
185.152.250.97
185.152.250.99
  • It’s only a few hundred requests each, but I am very suspicious so I will record it here and purge their IPs from Solr
  • Then I see 185.187.30.14 and 185.187.30.13 making requests also, with several different “normal” user agents
    • They are both apparently in France, belonging to Scalair FR hosting
    • I will purge their requests from Solr too
  • Now I see some other new bots I hadn’t noticed before:
    • Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0) LinkCheck by Siteimprove.com
    • Consilio (WebHare Platform 4.28.2-dev); LinkChecker), which appears to be a university CMS
    • I will add LinkCheck, Consilio, and WebHare to the list of DSpace bot agents and purge them from Solr stats
    • COUNTER-Robots list already has link.?check but for some reason DSpace didn’t match that and I see hits for some of these…
    • Maybe I should add [Ll]ink.?[Cc]heck.? to a custom list for now?
    • For now I added Turnitin to the new bots pull request on COUNTER-Robots
  • I purged 20,000 hits from IPs and 45,000 hits from user agents
  • I will revert the default “example” agents file back to the upstream master branch of COUNTER-Robots, and then add all my custom ones that are pending in pull requests they haven’t merged yet:
$ diff --unchanged-line-format= --old-line-format= --new-line-format='%L' dspace/config/spiders/agents/example ~/src/git/COUNTER-Robots/COUNTER_Robots_list.txt
Citoid
ecointernet
GigablastOpenSource
Jersey\/\d
MarcEdit
OgScrper
okhttp
^Pattern\/\d
ReactorNetty\/\d
sqlmap
Typhoeus
7siters
  • Just a note that I still can’t deploy the 6_x-dev-atmire-modules branch as it fails at ant update:
     [java] java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to startup the DSpace Service Manager: failure starting up spring service manager: Error creating bean with name 'DefaultStorageUpdateConfig': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire method: public void com.atmire.statistics.util.StorageReportsUpdater.setStorageReportServices(java.util.List); nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'cuaEPersonStorageReportService': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private com.atmire.dspace.cua.dao.storage.CUAEPersonStorageReportDAO com.atmire.dspace.cua.CUAStorageReportServiceImpl$CUAEPersonStorageReportServiceImpl.CUAEPersonStorageReportDAO; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoUniqueBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [com.atmire.dspace.cua.dao.storage.CUAEPersonStorageReportDAO] is defined: expected single matching bean but found 2: com.atmire.dspace.cua.dao.impl.CUAStorageReportDAOImpl$CUAEPersonStorageReportDAOImpl#0,com.atmire.dspace.cua.dao.impl.CUAStorageReportDAOImpl$CUAEPersonStorageReportDAOImpl#1
  • I had told Atmire about this several weeks ago… but I reminded them again in the ticket
    • Atmire says they are able to build fine, so I tried again and noticed that I had been building with -Denv=dspacetest.cgiar.org, which is not necessary for DSpace 6 of course
    • Once I removed that it builds fine
  • I quickly re-applied the Font Awesome 5 changes to use SVG+JS instead of web fonts (from 2020-04) and things are looking good!
  • Run all system updates on DSpace Test (linode26), deploy latest 6_x-dev-atmire-modules branch, and reboot it

2020-07-02

  • I need to export some Solr statistics data from CGSpace to test Salem’s modifications to the dspace-statistics-api
    • He modified it to query Solr on the fly instead of indexing it, which will be heavier and slower, but allows us to get more granular stats and countries/cities
    • Because have so many records I want to use solr-import-export-json to get several months at a time with a date range, but it seems there are first issues with curl (need to disable globbing with -g and URL encode the range)
    • For reference, the Solr 4.10.x DateField docs
    • This range works in Solr UI: [2019-01-01T00:00:00Z TO 2019-06-30T23:59:59Z]
    • As well in curl:
$ curl -g -s 'http://localhost:8081/solr/statistics-2019/select?q=*:*&fq=time:%5B2019-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%20TO%202019-06-30T23%3A59%3A59Z%5D&rows=0&wt=json&indent=true'
{
  "responseHeader":{
    "status":0,
    "QTime":0,
    "params":{
      "q":"*:*",
      "indent":"true",
      "fq":"time:[2019-01-01T00:00:00Z TO 2019-06-30T23:59:59Z]",
      "rows":"0",
      "wt":"json"}},
  "response":{"numFound":7784285,"start":0,"docs":[]
  }}
  • But not in solr-import-export-json… hmmm… seems we need to URL encode only the date range itself, but not the brackets:
$ ./run.sh -s http://localhost:8081/solr/statistics-2019 -a export -o /tmp/statistics-2019-1.json -f 'time:%5B2019-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%20TO%202019-06-30T23%3A59%3A59Z]' -k uid
$ zstd /tmp/statistics-2019-1.json
  • Then import it on my local dev environment:
$ zstd -d statistics-2019-1.json.zst
$ ./run.sh -s http://localhost:8080/solr/statistics -a import -o ~/Downloads/statistics-2019-1.json -k uid

2020-07-05

  • Import twelve items into the CRP Livestock multimedia collection for Peter Ballantyne
    • I ran the data through csv-metadata-quality first to validate and fix some common mistakes
    • Interesting to check the data with csvstat to see if there are any duplicates
  • Peter recently asked me to add Target audience (cg.targetaudience) to the CGSpace sidebar facets and AReS filters
    • I added it on my local DSpace test instance, but I’m waiting for him to tell me what he wants the header to be “Audiences” or “Target audience” etc…
  • Peter also asked me to increase the size of links in the CGSpace “Welcome” text
    • I suggested using the CSS font-size: larger property to just bump it up one relative to what it already is
    • He said it looks good, but that actually now the links seem OK (I told him to refresh, as I had made them bold a few days ago) so we don’t need to adjust it actually
  • Mohammed Salem modified my dspace-statistics-api to query Solr directly so I started writing a script to benchmark it today
    • I will monitor the JVM memory and CPU usage in visualvm, just like I did in 2019-04
    • I noticed an issue with his limit parameter so I sent him some feedback on that in the meantime
  • I noticed that we have 20,000 distinct values for dc.subject, but there are at least 500 that are lower or mixed case that we should simply uppercase without further thought:
dspace=# UPDATE metadatavalue SET text_value=UPPER(text_value) WHERE resource_type_id=2 AND metadata_field_id=57 AND text_value ~ '[[:lower:]]';
  • DSpace Test needs a different query because it is running DSpace 6 with UUIDs for everything:
dspace63=# UPDATE metadatavalue SET text_value=UPPER(text_value) WHERE dspace_object_id IN (SELECT uuid FROM item) AND metadata_field_id=57 AND text_value ~ '[[:lower:]]';
  • Note the use of the POSIX character class :)
  • I suggest that we generate a list of the top 5,000 values that don’t match AGROVOC so that Sisay can correct them
    • Start by getting the top 6,500 subjects (assuming that the top ~1,500 are valid from our previous work):
dspace=# \COPY (SELECT DISTINCT text_value, count(text_value) FROM metadatavalue WHERE resource_type_id=2 AND metadata_field_id=57 GROUP BY text_value ORDER BY count DESC) TO /tmp/2020-07-05-subjects.csv WITH CSV;
COPY 19640
dspace=# \q
$ csvcut -c1 /tmp/2020-07-05-subjects-upper.csv | head -n 6500 > 2020-07-05-cgspace-subjects.txt
  • Then start looking them up using agrovoc-lookup.py:
$ ./agrovoc-lookup.py -i 2020-07-05-cgspace-subjects.txt -om 2020-07-05-cgspace-subjects-matched.txt -or 2020-07-05-cgspace-subjects-rejected.txt -d

2020-07-06

  • I made some optimizations to the suite of Python utility scripts in our DSpace directory as well as the csv-metadata-quality script
    • Mostly to make more efficient usage of the requests cache and to use parameterized requests instead of building the request URL by concatenating the URL with query parameters
  • I modified the agrovoc-lookup.py script to save its results as a CSV, with the subject, language, type of match (preferred, alternate, and total number of matches) rather than save two separate files
    • Note that I see prefLabel, matchedPrefLabel, and altLabel in the REST API responses and I’m not sure what the second one means
    • I emailed FAO’s AGROVOC contact to ask them
    • They responded to say that matchedPrefLabel is not a property in SKOS/SKOSXL vocabulary, but their SKOSMOS system seems to use it to hint that the search terms matched a prefLabel in another language
    • I will treat the matchedPrefLabel values as if they were prefLabel values for the indicated language then

2020-07-07

  • Peter asked me to send him a list of sponsors on CGSpace
dspace=# \COPY (SELECT DISTINCT text_value as "dc.description.sponsorship", count(text_value) FROM metadatavalue WHERE resource_type_id=2 AND metadata_field_id=29 GROUP BY "dc.description.sponsorship" ORDER BY count DESC) TO /tmp/2020-07-07-sponsors.csv WITH CSV HEADER;
COPY 707
  • I ran it quickly through my csv-metadata-quality tool and found two issues that I will correct with fix-metadata-values.py on CGSpace immediately:
$ cat 2020-07-07-fix-sponsors.csv
dc.description.sponsorship,correct
"Ministe`re des Affaires Etrange`res et Européennes, France","Ministère des Affaires Étrangères et Européennes, France"
"Global Food Security Programme,  United Kingdom","Global Food Security Programme, United Kingdom"
$ ./fix-metadata-values.py -i 2020-07-07-fix-sponsors.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -f dc.description.sponsorship -t correct -m 29
  • Upload the Capacity Development July newsletter to CGSpace for Ben Hack because Abenet and Bizu usually do it, but they are currently offline due to the Internet being turned off in Ethiopia
  • I implemented the Dimensions.ai badge on DSpace Test for Peter to see, as he’s been asking me for awhile:

Dimensions.ai badge

  • It was easy once I figured out how to do the XSLT in the DSpace theme (need to get the DOI link and remove the “https://doi.org/" from the string)
    • Actually this raised an issue that the Altmetric badges weren’t enabled in our DSpace 6 branch yet because I had forgotten to copy the config
    • Also, I noticed a big issue in both our DSpace 5 and DSpace 6 branches related to the $identifier_doi variable being defined incorrectly and thus never getting set (has to do with DRI)
    • I fixed both and now the Altmetric badge and the Dimensions badge both appear… nice

Altmetric and Dimensions.ai badge

2020-07-08

  • Generate a CSV of all the AGROVOC subjects that didn’t match from the top 6500 I exported earlier this week:
$ csvgrep -c 'number of matches' -r "^0$" 2020-07-05-cgspace-subjects.csv | csvcut -c 1 > 2020-07-05-cgspace-invalid-subjects.csv
  • Yesterday Gabriela from CIP emailed to say that she was removing the accents from her authors’ names because of “funny character” issues with reports generated from CGSpace
    • I told her that it’s probably her Windows / Excel that is messing up the data, and she figured out how to open them correctly!
    • Now she says she doesn’t want to remove the accents after all and she sent me a new list of corrections
    • I used csvgrep and found a few where she is still removing accents:
$ csvgrep -c 2 -r "^.+$" ~/Downloads/cip-authors-GH-20200706.csv | csvgrep -c 1 -r "^.*[À-ú].*$" | csvgrep -c 2 -r "^.*[À-ú].*$" -i | csvcut -c 1,2
dc.contributor.author,correction
"López, G.","Lopez, G."
"Gómez, R.","Gomez, R."
"García, M.","Garcia, M."
"Mejía, A.","Mejia, A."
"Quiróz, Roberto A.","Quiroz, R."

  • csvgrep from the csvkit suite is so cool:

    • Select lines with column two (the correction) having a value
    • Select lines with column one (the original author name) having an accent / diacritic
    • Select lines with column two (the correction) NOT having an accent (ie, she’s not removing an accent)
    • Select columns one and two

  • Peter said he liked the work I didn on the badges yesterday so I put some finishing touches on it to detect more DOI URI styles and pushed it to the 5_x-prod branch

    • I will port it to DSpace 6 soon

Altmetric and Dimensions badges

  • I wrote a quick script to lookup organizations (affiliations) in the Research Organization Repository (ROR) JSON data release v5
    • I want to use this to evaluate ROR as a controlled vocabulary for CGSpace and MELSpace
    • I exported a list of affiliations from CGSpace:
dspace=# \COPY (SELECT DISTINCT text_value as "cg.contributor.affiliation", count(*) FROM metadatavalue WHERE resource_type_id = 2 AND metadata_field_id = 211 GROUP BY text_value ORDER BY count DESC) to /tmp/2020-07-08-affiliations.csv WITH CSV HEADER;
  • Then I stripped the CSV header and quotes to make it a plain text file and ran ror-lookup.py:
$ ./ror-lookup.py -i /tmp/2020-07-08-affiliations.txt -r ror.json -o 2020-07-08-affiliations-ror.csv -d
$ wc -l /tmp/2020-07-08-affiliations.txt 
5866 /tmp/2020-07-08-affiliations.txt
$ csvgrep -c matched -m true 2020-07-08-affiliations-ror.csv | wc -l 
1406
$ csvgrep -c matched -m false 2020-07-08-affiliations-ror.csv | wc -l
4462
  • So, minus the CSV header, we have 1405 case-insensitive matches out of 5866 (23.9%)

2020-07-09

  • Atmire responded to the ticket about DSpace 6 and Solr yesterday
    • They said that the CUA issue is due to the “unmigrated” Solr records and that we should delete them
    • I told them that the “unmigrated” IDs are a known issue in DSpace 6 and we should rather figure out why they are unmigrated
    • I didn’t see any discussion on the dspace-tech mailing list or on DSpace Jira about unmigrated IDs, so I sent a mail to the mailing list to ask
  • I updated ror-lookup.py to check aliases and acronyms as well and now the results are better for CGSpace’s affiliation list:
$ wc -l /tmp/2020-07-08-affiliations.txt 
5866 /tmp/2020-07-08-affiliations.txt
$ csvgrep -c matched -m true 2020-07-08-affiliations-ror.csv | wc -l 
1516
$ csvgrep -c matched -m false 2020-07-08-affiliations-ror.csv | wc -l
4352
  • So now our matching improves to 1515 out of 5866 (25.8%)
  • Gabriela from CIP said that I should run the author corrections minus those that remove accent characters so I will run it on CGSpace:
$ ./fix-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/2020-07-09-fix-90-cip-authors.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -f dc.contributor.author -t correction -m 3
  • Apply 110 fixes and 90 deletions to sponsorships that Peter sent me a few days ago:
$ ./fix-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/2020-07-07-fix-110-sponsors.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -f dc.description.sponsorship -t 'correct/action' -m 29
$ ./delete-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/2020-07-07-delete-90-sponsors.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -f dc.description.sponsorship -m 29
  • Start a full Discovery re-index on CGSpace:
$ time chrt -b 0 dspace index-discovery -b

real    94m21.413s
user    9m40.364s
sys     2m37.246s
  • I modified crossref-funders-lookup.py to be case insensitive and now CGSpace’s sponsors match 173 out of 534 (32.4%):
$ ./crossref-funders-lookup.py -i 2020-07-09-cgspace-sponsors.txt -o 2020-07-09-cgspace-sponsors-crossref.csv -d -e a.orth@cgiar.org
$ wc -l 2020-07-09-cgspace-sponsors.txt
534 2020-07-09-cgspace-sponsors.txt
$ csvgrep -c matched -m true 2020-07-09-cgspace-sponsors-crossref.csv | wc -l 
174

2020-07-12

  • On 2020-07-10 Macaroni Bros emailed to ask if there are issues with CGSpace because they are getting HTTP 504 on the REST API
    • First, I looked in Munin and I see high number of DSpace sessions and threads on Friday evening around midnight, though that was much later than his email:

DSpace sessions Threads PostgreSQL locks PostgreSQL transactions

  • CPU load and memory were not high then, but there was some load on the database and firewall…
    • Looking in the nginx logs I see a few IPs we’ve seen recently, like those 199.47.x.x IPs from Turnitin (which I need to remember to purge from Solr again because I didn’t update the spider agents on CGSpace yet) and some new one 186.112.8.167
    • Also, the Turnitin bot doesn’t re-use its Tomcat JSESSIONID, I see this from today:
# grep 199.47.87 dspace.log.2020-07-12 | grep -o -E 'session_id=[A-Z0-9]{32}' | sort | uniq | wc -l
2815
  • So I need to add this alternative user-agent to the Tomcat Crawler Session Manager valve to force it to re-use a common bot session
  • There are around 9,000 requests from 186.112.8.167 in Colombia and has the user agent Java/1.8.0_241, but those were mostly to REST API and I don’t see any hits in Solr
  • Earlier in the day Linode had alerted that there was high outgoing bandwidth
    • I see some new bot from 134.155.96.78 made ~10,000 requests with the user agent… but it appears to already be in our DSpace user agent list via COUNTER-Robots:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; heritrix/3.4.0-SNAPSHOT-2019-02-07T13:53:20Z +http://ifm.uni-mannheim.de)
  • Generate a list of sponsors to update our controlled vocabulary:
dspace=# \COPY (SELECT DISTINCT text_value as "dc.description.sponsorship", count(text_value) FROM metadatavalue WHERE resource_type_id=2 AND metadata_field_id=29 GROUP BY "dc.description.sponsorship" ORDER BY count DESC LIMIT 125) TO /tmp/2020-07-12-sponsors.csv;
COPY 125
dspace=# \q
$ csvcut -c 1 --tabs /tmp/2020-07-12-sponsors.csv > dspace/config/controlled-vocabularies/dc-description-sponsorship.xml
# add XML formatting
$ dspace/config/controlled-vocabularies/dc-description-sponsorship.xml
$ tidy -xml -utf8 -m -iq -w 0 dspace/config/controlled-vocabularies/dc-description-sponsorship.xml
  • Deploy latest 5_x-prod branch on CGSpace (linode18), run all system updates, and reboot the server
    • After rebooting it I had to restart Tomcat 7 once to get all Solr statistics cores to come up properly

2020-07-13

  • I recommended to Marie–Angelique that we use ROR for CG Core V2 (#27)
  • Purge 2,700 hits from CodeObia IP addresses in CGSpace statistics… I wonder when they will figure out how to use a bot user agent

2020-07-14

  • I ran the dspace cleanup -v process on CGSpace and got an error:
Error: ERROR: update or delete on table "bitstream" violates foreign key constraint "bundle_primary_bitstream_id_fkey" on table "bundle"
  Detail: Key (bitstream_id)=(189618) is still referenced from table "bundle".
  • The solution is, as always:
$ psql -d dspace -U dspace -c 'update bundle set primary_bitstream_id=NULL where primary_bitstream_id in (189618, 188837);'
UPDATE 1

2020-07-15

  • All four IWMI items that I tweeted yesterday have Altmetric donuts with a score of 1 now…
  • Export CGSpace countries to check them against ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-3 (historic countries):
dspace=# \COPY (SELECT DISTINCT text_value FROM metadatavalue WHERE resource_type_id=2 AND metadata_field_id=228) TO /tmp/2020-07-15-countries.csv;
COPY 194
  • I wrote a script iso3166-lookup.py to check them:
$ ./iso3166-1-lookup.py -i /tmp/2020-07-15-countries.csv -o /tmp/2020-07-15-countries-resolved.csv
$ csvgrep -c matched -m false /tmp/2020-07-15-countries-resolved.csv       
country,match type,matched
CAPE VERDE,,false
"KOREA, REPUBLIC",,false
PALESTINE,,false
"CONGO, DR",,false
COTE D'IVOIRE,,false
RUSSIA,,false
SYRIA,,false
"KOREA, DPR",,false
SWAZILAND,,false
MICRONESIA,,false
TIBET,,false
ZAIRE,,false
COCOS ISLANDS,,false
LAOS,,false
IRAN,,false
  • Check the database for DOIs that are not in the preferred “https://doi.org/" format:
dspace=# \COPY (SELECT text_value as "cg.identifier.doi" FROM metadatavalue WHERE resource_type_id=2 AND metadata_field_id=220 AND text_value NOT LIKE 'https://doi.org/%') TO /tmp/2020-07-15-doi.csv WITH CSV HEADER;
COPY 186
  • Then I imported them into OpenRefine and replaced them in a new “correct” column using this GREL transform:
value.replace("dx.doi.org", "doi.org").replace("http://", "https://").replace("https://dx,doi,org", "https://doi.org").replace("https://doi.dx.org", "https://doi.org").replace("https://dx.doi:", "https://doi.org").replace("DOI: ", "https://doi.org/").replace("doi: ", "https://doi.org/").replace("http:/​/​dx.​doi.​org", "https://doi.org").replace("https://dx. doi.org. ", "https://doi.org").replace("https://dx.doi", "https://doi.org").replace("https://dx.doi:", "https://doi.org/").replace("hdl.handle.net", "doi.org")
  • Then I fixed the DOIs on CGSpace:
$ ./fix-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/2020-07-15-fix-164-DOIs.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -f cg.identifier.doi -t 'correct' -m 220
  • I filed an issue on Debian’s iso-codes project to ask why “Swaziland” does not appear in the ISO 3166-3 list of historical country names despite it being changed to “Eswatini” in 2018.
  • Atmire responded about the Solr issue
    • They said that it seems like a DSpace issue so that it’s not their responsibility, and nobody responded to my question on the dspace-tech mailing list…
    • I said I would try to do a migration on DSpace Test with more of CGSpace’s Solr data to try and approximate how much of our data be affected
    • I also asked them about the Tomcat 8.5 issue with CUA as well as the CUA group name issue that I had asked originally in April

2020-07-20

  • Looking at the nginx logs on CGSpace (linode18) last night I see that the Macaroni Bros have started using a unique identifier for at least one of their harvesters:
217.64.192.138 - - [20/Jul/2020:01:01:39 +0200] "GET /rest/rest/bitstreams/114779/retrieve HTTP/1.0" 302 138 "-" "ILRI Livestock Website Publications importer BOT"
  • I still see 12,000 records in Solr from this user agent, though.
    • I wonder why the DSpace bot list didn’t get those… because it has “bot” which should cause Solr to not log the hit
  • I purged ~30,000 hits from Solr statistics based on the IPs above, but also for some agents like Drupal (which isn’t in the list yet) and OgScrper (which is as of 2020-03)
  • Some of my user agent patterns had been incorporated into COUNTER-Robots in 2020-07, but not all
  • I re-ran the check-spider-hits.sh script with the new lists and purged another 14,000 more stats hits for several years each (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016), around 70,000 total
  • I looked at the CLARISA institutions list again, since I hadn’t looked at it in over six months:
$ cat ~/Downloads/response_1595270924560.json | jq '.[] | {name: .name}' | grep name | awk -F: '{print $2}' | sed -e 's/"//g' -e 's/^ //' -e '1iname' | csvcut -l | sed '1s/line_number/id/' > /tmp/clarisa-institutions.csv
  • The API still needs a key unless you query from Swagger web interface
    • They currently have 3,469 institutions…
    • Also, they still combine multiple text names into one string along with acronyms and countries:
      • Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammen­arbeit und Entwicklung / Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany)
      • Ministerio del Ambiente / Ministry of Environment (Peru)
      • Carthage University / Université de Carthage
      • Sweet Potato Research Institute (SPRI) of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
    • And I checked the list with my csv-metadata-quality tool and found it still has whitespace and unnecessary Unicode characters in several records:
$ csv-metadata-quality -i /tmp/clarisa-institutions.csv -o /tmp/clarisa-institutions-cleaned.csv
Removing excessive whitespace (name): Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli /  International Committee for the Development of Peoples
Removing excessive whitespace (name): Deutsche Landwirtschaftsgesellschaft /  German agriculture society
Removing excessive whitespace (name): Institute of Arid Regions  of Medenine
Replacing unnecessary Unicode (U+00AD): Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammen­arbeit und Entwicklung / Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany)
Removing unnecessary Unicode (U+200B): Agencia de Servicios a la Comercialización​ y Desarrollo de Mercados Agropecuarios
  • I think the ROR is much better in every possible way
  • Re-enabled all the yearly Solr statistics cores on DSpace Test (linode26) because they had been disabled by Atmire when they were testing on the server
    • Run system updates on the server and reboot it

2020-07-21

  • I built the latest 6.x branch on DSpace Test (linode26) and I noticed a few Font Awesome icons are missing in the Atmire CUA statlets
    • One was simple to fix by adding it to our font library in fontawesome.js, but there are two more that are printing hex values instead of using HTML elements:

Atmire CUA missing icons

  • I had previously thought these were fixed by setting the font-family on the elements, but it doesn’t appear to be working now
    • I filed a ticket with Atmire to ask them to use the HTML elements instead, as their code already uses those elsewhere
    • I don’t want to go back to using the large webfonts with CSS because the SVG + JS method saves us ~140KiB and causes at least three fewer network requests
  • I started processing the 2019 stats in a batch of 1 million on DSpace Test:
$ export JAVA_OPTS='-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Xmx2048m'
$ chrt -b 0 dspace solr-upgrade-statistics-6x -n 1000000 -i statistics-2019
...
        *** Statistics Records with Legacy Id ***

           6,359,966    Bistream View
           2,204,775    Item View
             139,266    Community View
             131,234    Collection View
             948,529    Community Search
             593,974    Collection Search
           1,682,818    Unexpected Type & Full Site
        --------------------------------------
          12,060,562    TOTAL
  • The statistics-2019 finished processing after about 9 hours so I started the 2018 ones:
$ export JAVA_OPTS='-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Xmx2048m'
$ chrt -b 0 dspace solr-upgrade-statistics-6x -n 1000000 -i statistics-2018
        *** Statistics Records with Legacy Id ***

           3,684,394    Bistream View
           2,183,032    Item View
             131,222    Community View
              79,348    Collection View
             345,529    Collection Search
             322,223    Community Search
             874,107    Unexpected Type & Full Site
        --------------------------------------
           7,619,855    TOTAL
  • Moayad finally made OpenRXV use a unique user agent:
OpenRXV harvesting bot; https://github.com/ilri/OpenRXV
  • I see nearly 200,000 hits in Solr from the IP address, though, so I need to make sure those are old ones from before today
    • I purged the hits for 178.62.93.141 as well as any from the old axios/0.19.2 user agent
    • I made some requests with and without the new user agent and only the ones without showed up in Solr

2020-07-22

  • Atmire merged my latest bot suggestions to the COUNTER-Robots project:
  • I will update the agent patterns on the CGSpace 5_x-prod and 6.x branches
  • Make some changes to the Bootstrap CSS and HTML configuration to improve readability and style on the CG Core v2 metadata reference guide and send a pull request to Marie (#29)
  • The solr-upgrade-statistics-6x tool keeps crashing due to memory issues when processing 2018 stats
    • I reduced the number of records per batch from 10,000 to 5,000 and increased the memory to 3072 and it still crashes…
    • I reduced the number of records per batch to 1,000 and it works, but still took like twenty minutes before it even started!
    • Eventually after processing a few million records it crashed with this error:
Exception: Error while creating field 'p_group_id{type=uuid,properties=indexed,stored,multiValued}' from value '10'
org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrServer$RemoteSolrException: Error while creating field 'p_group_id{type=uuid,properties=indexed,stored,multiValued}' from value '10'
  • There were four records so I deleted them:
$ curl -s "http://localhost:8081/solr/statistics-2018/update?softCommit=true" -H "Content-Type: text/xml" --data-binary '<delete><query>id:10</query></delete>'
  • Meeting with Moayad and Peter and Abenet to discuss the latest AReS changes

2020-07-23

  • I closed all issues in the OpenRXV and AReS GitHub repositories with screenshots so that Moayad can use them for his invoice
  • The statistics-2018 core always crashes with the same error even after I deleted the “id:10” records…
    • I started the statistics-2017 core and it finished in 3:44:15
    • I started the statistics-2016 core and it finished in 2:27:08
    • I started the statistics-2015 core and it finished in 1:07:38

2020-07-24

  • Looking at the statistics-2019 Solr stats and see some interesting user agents and IPs
    • For example, I see 568,000 requests from 66.109.27.x in 2019-10, all with the same exact user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/14E304 Safari/602.1
  • Also, in the same month with the same exact user agent, I see 300,000 from 192.157.89.x
    • The 66.109.27.x IPs belong to galaxyvisions.com
    • The 192.157.89.x IPs belong to cologuard.com
    • All these hosts were reported in late 2019 on abuseipdb.com
  • Then I see another one 163.172.71.23 that made 215,000 requests in 2019-09 and 2019-08
    • It belongs to poneytelecom.eu and is also in abuseipdb.com for PHP injection and directory traversal
    • It uses this user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 ((Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; fr; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6)
  • In statistics-2018 I see more weird IPs
    • 54.214.112.202 made 839,000 requests with no user agent…
      • It is on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and made 100% statistics_type:view so I guess it was harvesting via the REST API
    • A few IPs owned by perfectip.net made 400,000 requests in 2018-01
      • They are 2607:fa98:40:9:26b6:fdff:feff:195d and 2607:fa98:40:9:26b6:fdff:feff:1888 and 2607:fa98:40:9:26b6:fdff:feff:1c96
      • All the requests used this user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.111 Safari/537.36
  • Then there is 213.139.53.62 in 2018, which is on Orange Telecom Jordan, so it’s definitely CodeObia / ICARDA and I will purge them
  • Jesus, and then there are 100,000 from the ILRI harvestor on Linode on 2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:fe0a:d645
  • Jesus fuck there is 46.101.86.248 making 15,000 requests per month in 2018 with no user agent…
  • I will purge the hits from all the following IPs:
192.157.89.4
192.157.89.5
192.157.89.6
192.157.89.7
66.109.27.142
66.109.27.139
66.109.27.138
66.109.27.140
66.109.27.141
2607:fa98:40:9:26b6:fdff:feff:1888
2607:fa98:40:9:26b6:fdff:feff:195d
2607:fa98:40:9:26b6:fdff:feff:1c96
213.139.53.62
2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:fe0a:d645
46.101.86.248
  • In total these accounted for the following amount of requests in each year:
    • 2020: 1436
    • 2019: 933148
    • 2018: 613936
  • I noticed a few other user agents that should be purged too:
^Java\/\d{1,2}.\d
FlipboardProxy\/\d
API scraper
RebelMouse\/\d
Iframely\/\d
Python\/\d
Ruby
NING\/\d
ubermetrics-technologies\.com
Jetty\/\d
scalaj-http\/\d
mailto\:team@impactstory\.org
  • I purged them from the stats too:
    • 2020: 18153
    • 2019: 29745
    • 2018: 18083
    • 2017: 19399
    • 2016: 16283
    • 2015: 16659
    • 2014: 713