CGSpace Notes

2020-10-06

• Add tests for the new /items POST handlers to the DSpace 6.x branch of my dspace-statistics-api
  • It took a bit of extra work because I had to learn how to mock the responses for when Solr is not available

2020-09-02

• Replace Marissa van Epp for Rhys Bucknall in the CCAFS groups on CGSpace because Marissa no longer works at CCAFS
• The AReS Explorer hasn’t updated its index since 2020-08-22 when I last forced it
  • I restarted it again now and told Moayad that the automatic indexing isn’t working
• Add Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT to affiliations on CGSpace
• Abenet told me that the general search text on AReS doesn’t get reset when you use the “Reset Filters” button
  • I filed a bug on OpenRXV: https://github.com/ilri/OpenRXV/issues/39
• I filed an issue on OpenRXV to make some minor edits to the admin UI: https://github.com/ilri/OpenRXV/issues/40

2020-08-02

• I spent a few days working on a Java-based curation task to tag items with ISO 3166-1 Alpha2 country codes based on their cg.coverage.country text values
  • It looks up the names in ISO 3166-1 first, and then in our CGSpace countries mapping (which has five or so of Peter’s preferred “display” country names)
  • It implements a “force” mode too that will clear existing country codes and re-tag everything
  • It is class based so I can easily add support for other vocabularies, and the technique could even be used for organizations with mappings to ROR and Clarisa…

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

2020-06-01

• I tried to run the AtomicStatisticsUpdateCLI CUA migration script on DSpace Test (linode26) again and it is still going very slowly and has tons of errors like I noticed yesterday
  • I sent Atmire the dspace.log from today and told them to log into the server to debug the process
• In other news, I checked the statistics API on DSpace 6 and it’s working
• I tried to build the OAI registry on the freshly migrated DSpace 6 on DSpace Test and I get an error:

2020-05-02

• Peter said that CTA is having problems submitting an item to CGSpace
  • Looking at the PostgreSQL stats it seems to be the same issue that Tezira was having last week, as I see the number of connections in ‘idle in transaction’ and ‘waiting for lock’ state are increasing again
  • I see that CGSpace (linode18) is still using PostgreSQL JDBC driver version 42.2.11, and there were some bugs related to transactions fixed in 42.2.12 (which I had updated in the Ansible playbooks, but not deployed yet)

2020-04-02

• Maria asked me to update Charles Staver’s ORCID iD in the submission template and on CGSpace, as his name was lower case before, and now he has corrected it
  • I updated the fifty-eight existing items on CGSpace
• Looking into the items Udana had asked about last week that were missing Altmetric donuts:
  • The first is still missing its DOI, so I added it and tweeted its handle (after a few hours there was a donut with score 222)
  • The second item now has a donut with score 2 since I tweeted its handle last week
  • The third item now has a donut with score 1 since I tweeted it last week
• On the same note, the one item Abenet pointed out last week now has a donut with score of 104 after I tweeted it last week

2020-03-02

• Update dspace-statistics-api for DSpace 6+ UUIDs
  • Tag version 1.2.0 on GitHub
• Test migrating legacy Solr statistics to UUIDs with the as-of-yet unreleased SolrUpgradePre6xStatistics.java
  • You need to download this into the DSpace 6.x source and compile it

2020-02-02

• Continue working on porting CGSpace’s DSpace 5 code to DSpace 6.3 that I started yesterday
  • Sign up for an account with MaxMind so I can get the GeoLite2-City.mmdb database
  • I still need to wire up the API credentials and cron job into the Ansible infrastructure playbooks
  • Fix some minor issues in the config and XMLUI themes, like removing Atmire stuff
  • The code finally builds and runs with a fresh install

2020-01-06

• Open a ticket with Atmire to request a quote for the upgrade to DSpace 6
• Last week Altmetric responded about the item that had a lower score than than its DOI
  • The score is now linked to the DOI
  • Another item that had the same problem in 2019 has now also linked to the score for its DOI
  • Another item that had the same problem in 2019 has also been fixed

2020-01-07

• Peter Ballantyne highlighted one more WLE item that is missing the Altmetric score that its DOI has
  • The DOI has a score of 259, but the Handle has no score at all
  • I tweeted the CGSpace repository link