+++ date = "2016-07-01T10:53:00+03:00" author = "Alan Orth" title = "July, 2016" tags = ["notes"] image = "../images/bg.jpg"

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2016-07-01

• Add dc.description.sponsorship to Discovery sidebar facets and make investors clickable in item view (#232)
• I think this query should find and replace all authors that have "," at the end of their names:

dspacetest=# update metadatavalue set text_value = regexp_replace(text_value, '(^.+?),$', '\1') where metadata_field_id=3 and resource_type_id=2 and text_value ~ '^.+?,$';
UPDATE 95
dspacetest=# select text_value from  metadatavalue where metadata_field_id=3 and resource_type_id=2 and text_value ~ '^.+?,$';
 text_value
------------
(0 rows)

• In this case the select query was showing 95 results before the update

2016-07-02

• Comment on DSpace Jira ticket about author lookup search text (DS-2329)

2016-07-04

• Seems the database's author authority values mean nothing without the authority Solr core from the host where they were created!

2016-07-05

• Amend backup-solr.sh script so it backs up the entire Solr folder
• We really only need statistics and authority but meh
• Fix metadata for species on DSpace Test:

$ ./fix-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/Species-Peter-Fix.csv -f dc.Species -t CORRECT -m 94 -d dspacetest -u dspacetest -p 'fuuu'

• Will run later on CGSpace
• A user is still having problems with Sherpa/Romeo causing crashes during the submission process when the journal is "ungraded"
• I tested the patch for DS-2740 that I had found last month and it seems to work
• I will merge it to 5_x-prod

2016-07-06

• Delete 23 blank metadata values from CGSpace:

cgspace=# delete from metadatavalue where resource_type_id=2 and text_value='';
DELETE 23

• Complete phase three of metadata migration, for the following fields:
  • dc.title.jtitle → dc.source
  • dc.crsubject.crpsubject → cg.contributor.crp
  • dc.contributor.affiliation → cg.contributor.affiliation
  • dc.Species → cg.species
  • dc.srplace.subregion → cg.coverage.subregion
  • dc.contributor.corporate → dc.contributor.author
  • dc.identifier.url → cg.identifier.url
  • dc.identifier.doi → cg.identifier.doi
  • dc.identifier.googleurl → cg.identifier.googleurl
  • dc.identifier.dataurl → cg.identifier.dataurl
• Also, run fixes and deletes for species and author affiliations (over 1000 corrections!)

$ ./fix-metadata-values.py -i Species-Peter-Fix.csv -f dc.Species -t CORRECT -m 212 -d dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu'
$ ./fix-metadata-values.py -i Affiliations-Fix-1045-Peter-Abenet.csv -f dc.contributor.affiliation -t Correct -m 211 -d dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu'
$ ./delete-metadata-values.py -f dc.contributor.affiliation -i Affiliations-Delete-Peter-Abenet.csv -m 211 -u dspace -d dspace -p 'fuuu'

• I then ran all server updates and rebooted the server

2016-07-11

• Doing some author cleanups from Peter and Abenet:

$ ./fix-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/Authors-Fix-205-UTF8.csv -f dc.contributor.author -t correct -m 3 -d dspacetest -u dspacetest -p fuuu
$ ./delete-metadata-values.py -f dc.contributor.author -i /tmp/Authors-Delete-UTF8.csv -m 3 -u dspacetest -d dspacetest -p fuuu

2016-07-13

• Run the author cleanups on CGSpace and start a full Discovery re-index

2016-07-14

• Test LDAP settings for new root LDAP
• Seems to work when binding as a top-level user

2016-07-18

• Adjust identifiers in XMLUI item display to be more prominent
• Add species and breed to the XMLUI item display
• CGSpace crashed late at night and the DSpace logs were showing:

2016-07-18 20:26:30,941 ERROR org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager @ SQL connection Error - 
org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot get a connection, pool error Timeout waiting for idle object
...

• I suspect it's someone hitting REST too much:

# awk '{print $1}' /var/log/nginx/rest.log  | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -h | tail -n 3
    710 66.249.78.38
   1781 181.118.144.29
  24904 70.32.99.142

• I just blocked access to /rest for that last IP for now:

     # log rest requests
     location /rest {
         access_log /var/log/nginx/rest.log;
         proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8443;
         deny 70.32.99.142;
     }

2016-07-21

• Mitigate the HTTPoxy vulnerability for Tomcat etc in nginx: https://github.com/ilri/rmg-ansible-public/pull/38
• Unblock 70.32.99.142 from /rest as it has been blocked for a few days

2016-07-22

• Help Paola from CCAFS with thumbnails for batch uploads
• She has been struggling to get the dimensions right, and manually enlarging smaller thumbnails, renaming PNGs to JPG, etc
• Altmetric reports having an issue with some of our authors being doubled...
• This is related to authority and confidence!
• We might need to use index.authority.ignore-prefered=true to tell the Discovery index to prefer the variation that exists in the metadatavalue rather than what it finds in the authority cache.
• Trying these on DSpace Test after a discussion by Daniel Scharon on the dspace-tech mailing list:

index.authority.ignore-prefered.dc.contributor.author=true
index.authority.ignore-variants.dc.contributor.author=false

• After reindexing I don't see any change in Discovery's display of authors, and still have entries like:

Grace, D. (464)
Grace, D. (62)

• I asked for clarification of the following options on the DSpace mailing list:

index.authority.ignore
index.authority.ignore-prefered
index.authority.ignore-variants

• In the mean time, I will try these on DSpace Test (plus a reindex):

index.authority.ignore=true
index.authority.ignore-prefered=true
index.authority.ignore-variants=true

• Enabled usage of X-Forwarded-For in DSpace admin control panel (#255
• It was misconfigured and disabled, but already working for some reason sigh
• ... no luck. Trying with just:

index.authority.ignore=true

• After re-indexing and clearing the XMLUI cache nothing has changed

2016-07-25

• Trying a few more settings (plus reindex) for Discovery on DSpace Test:

index.authority.ignore-prefered.dc.contributor.author=true
index.authority.ignore-variants=true

• Run all OS updates and reboot DSpace Test server
• No changes to Discovery after reindexing... hmm.
• Integrate and massively clean up About page (#256)

• The DSpace source code mentions the configuration key discovery.index.authority.ignore-prefered.* (with prefix of discovery, despite the docs saying otherwise), so I'm trying the following on DSpace Test:

discovery.index.authority.ignore-prefered.dc.contributor.author=true
discovery.index.authority.ignore-variants=true

• Still no change!
• Deploy species, breed, and identifier changes to CGSpace, as well as About page
• Run Linode RAM upgrade (8→12GB)
• Re-sync DSpace Test with CGSpace
• I noticed that our backup scripts don't send Solr cores to S3 so I amended the script

2016-07-31

• Work on removing Dryland Systems and Humidtropics subjects from Discovery sidebar and Browse by
• Also change "Subjects" to "AGROVOC keywords" in Discovery sidebar/search and Browse by (#257)