2023-06-02
- Spend some time testing my
post_bitstreams.py script to update thumbnails for items on CGSpace
- Interestingly I found an item with a JFIF thumbnail and another with a WebP thumbnail…
- Meeting with Valentina, Stefano, and Sara about MODS metadata in CGSpace
- They have experience with improving the MODS interface in MELSpace’s OAI-PMH for use with AGRIS and were curious if we could do the same in CGSpace
- From what I can see we need to upgrade the MODS schema from 3.1 to 3.7 and then just add a bunch of our fields to the crosswalk
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2023-05-03
- Alliance’s TIP team emailed me to ask about issues authenticating on CGSpace
- It seems their password expired, which is annoying
- I continued looking at the CGSpace subjects for the FAO / AGROVOC exercise that I started last week
- There are many of our subjects that would match if they added a “-” like “high yielding varieties” or used singular…
- Also I found at least two spelling mistakes, for example “decison support systems”, which would match if it was spelled correctly
- Work on cleaning, proofing, and uploading twenty-seven records for IFPRI to CGSpace
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2023-04-02
- Run all system updates on CGSpace and reboot it
- I exported CGSpace to CSV to check for any missing Initiative collection mappings
- I also did a check for missing country/region mappings with csv-metadata-quality
- Start a harvest on AReS
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2023-03-01
- Remove
cg.subject.wle and cg.identifier.wletheme from CGSpace input form after confirming with IWMI colleagues that they no longer need them (WLE closed in 2021)
- iso-codes 4.13.0 was released, which incorporates my changes to the common names for Iran, Laos, and Syria
- I finally got through with porting the input form from DSpace 6 to DSpace 7
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2023-02-01
- Export CGSpace to cross check the DOI metadata with Crossref
- I want to try to expand my use of their data to journals, publishers, volumes, issues, etc…
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2023-01-01
- Apply some more ORCID identifiers to items on CGSpace using my
2022-09-22-add-orcids.csv file
- I want to update all ORCID names and refresh them in the database
- I see we have some new ones that aren’t in our list if I combine with this file:
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2022-12-01
- Fix some incorrect regions on CGSpace
- I exported the CCAFS and IITA communities, extracted just the country and region columns, then ran them through csv-metadata-quality to fix the regions
- Add a few more authors to my CSV with author names and ORCID identifiers and tag 283 items!
- Replace “East Asia” with “Eastern Asia” region on CGSpace (UN M.49 region)
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2022-11-01
- Last night I re-synced DSpace 7 Test from CGSpace
- I also updated all my local
7_x-dev branches on the latest upstreams
- I spent some time updating the authorizations in Alliance collections
- I want to make sure they use groups instead of individuals where possible!
- I reverted the Cocoon autosave change because it was more of a nuissance that Peter can’t upload CSVs from the web interface and is a very low severity security issue
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2022-10-01
- Start a harvest on AReS last night
- Yesterday I realized how to use GraphicsMagick with im4java and I want to re-visit some of my thumbnail tests
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2022-09-01
- A bit of work on the “Mapping CG Core–CGSpace–MEL–MARLO Types” spreadsheet
- I tested an item submission on DSpace Test with the Cocoon
org.apache.cocoon.uploads.autosave=false change
- The submission works as expected
- Start debugging some region-related issues with csv-metadata-quality
- I created a new test file
test-geography.csv with some different scenarios
- I also fixed a few bugs and improved the region-matching logic
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