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
- I notice there are a few dozen locks from the
dspaceWeb pool that are five days old on CGSpace so I killed them
$ psql < locks-age.sql | grep " days " | awk -F"|" '{print $10}' | sort -u | xargs kill
2023-05-04
- Sync DSpace Test with CGSpace
- I replaced one item’s thumbnail with a WebP version and XMLUI displays it fine
- I spent some time checking the CMYK issue with Arch’s ImageMagick 7 and the Docker container and I think ImageMagick 7 just handles CMYK wrong…
- libvips does it correctly automatically and looks closer to the PDF
- Meeting about CG Core types
2023-05-10
- Write a script to find the
metadata_field_id values associated with the non-AGROVOC subjects I am working on for Sara
- This is useful because we want to know who to contact for a definition
- The script was:
while read -r subject; do
metadata_field_id=$(psql -h localhost -U postgres -d dspacetest -qtAX <<SQL
SELECT DISTINCT(metadata_field_id) FROM metadatavalue WHERE LOWER(text_value)='$subject'
SQL
)
metadata_field_id=$(echo $metadata_field_id | sed 's/[[:space:]]/||/g')
echo "$subject,$metadata_field_id"
done < <(csvcut -c 1 ~/Downloads/2023-04-26\ CGIAR\ non-AGROVOC\ subjects.csv | sed 1d)
- I also realized that Bernard Bett didn’t have any items on CGSpace tagged with his ORCID identifier, so I tagged 230!
2023-05-11
- CG Core meeting
- Finalize looking at the CGSpace non-AGROVOC subjects for FAO
2023-05-12
- Export the Alliance community to do some country/region fixes
- I also sent Maria and Francesca the export because they want to add more regions and subregions
- Export the entire CGSpace to check for missing Initiative collection mappings
- I also adding missing regions
2023-05-16
2023-05-17
- Re-sync CGSpace to DSpace 7 Test
- I came up with a naive patch to use WebP instead of JPEG in the DSpace ImageMagick filter, and it works, but doesn’t replace existing JPEGs… hmmm
- Also, it does PDF to WebP to WebP haha
2023-05-18
- I created a pull request to improve some minor documentation, typo, and logic issues in the DSpace ImageMagick thumbnail filters
- I realized that there is a quick win to the generation loss issue with ImageMagickThumbnailFilter
- We can use ImageMagick’s internal MIFF instead of JPEG when writing the intermediate image
- According to the libvips author PNG is very slow!
- I re-ran my
generation-loss.sh script using MIFF and found that it had essentially the same results as PNG, which is about 1.1 points higher on the ssimulacra2 (v2.1) scoring scale
- Also, according to my tests with the cosmo rusage.com utility, I see that MIFF is indeed much faster than PNG
- I updated my pull request to add this quick win
- Weekly CG Core types meeting
- Low attendance so I just kept working on the spreadsheet
- We are at the stage of voting on definitions