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 an issue on OpenRXV to make some minor edits to the admin UI: https://github.com/ilri/OpenRXV/issues/40
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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…
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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
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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:
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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)
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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:
- 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
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2020-03-02
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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
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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
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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
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