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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  • If you have new questions after your original question has been answered, create a new post for the new question.

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DSpace Internal error when I change language

I've installed DSpace 6.3 but when I change language to spanish, translation works but throws me an internal error at home page. If I switch back to English it works good. I've changed it at my dspace.cfg\ default.locale = es…
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Migrate database from Dspace 4 to Dspace 6

I am trying to migrate a database from DSpace 4 to DSpace 6. I exported the DSpace 4 database and imported it locally in my DSpace 6.3 installation. The database information is as follows database information Then I do: /dspace/bin/dspace database…
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Is there a way to get the API from a URL ("repository")?

I'm wondering how can i get a repository API , i explain a summary , im using "Dspace connector" from Omeka S and im trying to get all the comunities from a Repository , https://74.208.251.39/ , but Dspace Connector is asking me for an endpoint , an…
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How to embed PDF viewer in DSPACE

How can I embed PDF viewer in my DSPACE instance. I have tried many solution but nothing works. There are many suggestion on DSPACE official site https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Document+Viewer+Integration No soluton has a documnetation…
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Problem in converting Java objects to XML based on a given XSD file

I am generating a custom XML export in DSpace 5.2. The item that is to be exported as an XML file has an array of metadata values. The values must appear in the XML file as the given XSD file defines their hierarchy. I add the values based on the…
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How to manually upload thumbnails to dspace?

Is there a way to upload a thumbnails for a items created in dspace, I not interest in use media-filter, the thumbnails are created in photoshop for customer request
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Errors when building DSpace 6.3 Mirage2 theme on Ubuntu 18.04

I am trying to install DSpace 6.3 on an Amazon LightSail instance running Ubuntu 18.04. When running the mvn package -Dmirage2.on=true command, I get the following error, which I am unable to resolve using suggestions available in forums…
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How to add repository information in table format in dspace home page?

I want to add repository information in the base of table-format in Dspace6.0 Home page. Should I edit this XML file- DSpace-installation directory/config/news-xmlui.xml? I have done some changes about that, but I couldn't get proper results.
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How does Postgres host based authentication work?

I am installing DSPACE which needs PostgresSQL. Please see this link: DSPACE INSTALL It says: Then tighten up security a bit by editing pg_hba.conf and adding this line: host dspace dspace 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 md5. I have read on the…
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DSpace - OAI-PMH - Pagination

I would like to illustrate a problem with the pagination of the results of the OAI-PMH Data Provider of DSpace. Let's assume that I display the first page of results of a specific type, in the context the Identifiers. The URL of the request ends as…
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Remove news, description and image from collection and communities

How can i remove news, description and image from the main collection and collection view in dspace. What are the files to edit?
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How to include item's statistics in Collection on DSPace 6?

I have a collection with 15 documents, manually I added the views of each items anfd the total was 23.000~ but when I view the statistics of the colecction I get 3.200~. When viewing the statistics of a collection in DSpace 6 I only get the views…
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DSpace 6.3 performance and use of DB

We are upgrading to Dspace 6.3, and having performance problems. For example, switching on strengths makes home page load in 5 seconds and the loading of the page pointed to by "Create New Group" tab in JSPUI Group Editor takes around 5…
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DSpace 5.1 Solr item count totals out of sync

I am helping to support a DSpace 5.1 installation. Our client has reported a long-standing issue whereby the All Items count (in /statistics) does not match the sum of all other types of items counts, and diverges over time. I'm guessing not all the…
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DSpace - XMLUI Discovery - Sorting items applying numerical sort order to metadata containing text value

I would need to sort the items displayed on the XMLUI discovery a metadata containing a numerical value but saved as a string (specifically, a size in bytes). Of course, I want the result of the sort to consider the numerical value of these strings…