Questions tagged [dspace]

DSpace is an open source software package that can be used to manage an organization's digital content.

DSpace is an open source repository software package typically used for creating open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content.

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Recover the privileges of the admin user of DSpace

Editing permissions of a collection, by mistake we have removed all the privileges of the admin user (currently only belongs to the Anonymous group). Is it possible to recover the privileges of this user? Or create a new administrator user with all…
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How to change DSpace JSPUI main window info

I know in the directory webapps/jspui/layouts I can modify the navigation bar, the title and the bottom of the page. But where is the file to modify the body? I can't find that file to change it. Dspace version: 5.1 What goes between the header and…
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dspace filter-media crashes after upgrading DSpace from 5.3 to 5.4

dspace filter-media was working perfectly fine on DSpace 5.3. After upgrading do 5.4 every time I run it to index a new PDF (already tested all sorts of PDFs!), it crashes with the following exception stack: dspace@mylinux:/opt/dspace/deploy/bin>…
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How to retrieve metadata content of an item from another item input form in dspace 5 xmlui

I have two collections (meetings and decisions) that are related to one another. Decisions are based on meetings, I therefore would like to show this relationship in decisions metadata by having a link with the meeting title that links to meeting…
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Harvesting single items with DSpace

Is it possible to harvest single items from other repositories with DSpace? Perhaps from command line? As far as I can see, with XMLUI only harvesting complete communities or complete collections is possible. But then I get mostly too many items I…
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"Unknown lifecycle phase '.on=true'" when building DSpace 5.3 with Mirage 2 enabled on Windows Server 2012

I'm installing DSpace 5.3 on a fresh instance of Windows Server 2012, with the most recent versions of Maven (3.3.3) and Ant (1.9.6). A stock mvn package installation from my [dspace-src] directory, with Mirage 1 as the default interface, compiles…
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Constructing a where exists subquery with hibernate

I am attempting to create the following query using hibernate. select * from item where exists ( select 1 from metadatavalue mv where mv.dspace_object_id=item.uuid and text_value='No Date' ); I am having difficulty constructing the…
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FileNotFoundException exception upgrading Solr index in DSpace 1.8

I'm upgrading DSpace 1.8 to DSpace 5.2. All went fine but the Solr indexes update. It complains about the absence of file _1j0e.fnm in solr/statistics/data/index. How can I fix it? Here's the exception and the contents of index dir: mylinux #> ant…
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How to move community or collection logo in DSpace xmlui?

I would like to move the community or collection logo from its current position which is under the Search within this community/collection: form. I would like to put the logo above the
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How to show custom metadata in DSpace's summary view?

I just "inherited" this repository in my office. I have no experience at all with it and I've been asked to show custom metadata below an item's title in the summary view. The custom metadata has already been registered (it is called…
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How can I capture current or active locale in DSpace XMLUI?

I have this setting in dspace.cfg webui.supported.locales = en, fr, zh. I wonder why I can't get the active or current locale if I use:
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Cannot display properly item metadata title in item page?

I have included a new pagesNos field as metadata in Dublin core. I was able to display it in the item display page. However one problem the page shows the name of Dublin core property as metadata.dc.pages. I want it to just show "Number of pages".…
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what is the resource_type_id in metadatavalue?

I am new to dspace. I am retrieving values from dspace metadatavalue table. One think I don't understand is resource_type_id in metadatavalue table. Resource_type_id has specific values. It has value 3 for collection name and its description, 0 for…
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Patching Dspace for DS-2542 (XOAI date granularity) results in no change of behaviour

I am trying to apply a patch to our Test environment running Dspace 5.1 (with some additional modules) to fix a OAI harvesting issue due to improper date granularity. The issue is DS-2542 XOAI does not support non granular YYYY-MM-DD harvesting…
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Developing external add-ons for dspace?

For a specific technical reason, I am interested in developing some lib outside of Dspace, that would be used in Dspace. However those lib will have some dependency on some dspace class like Item. I am thinking of simply adding things like…
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