DSpace CD Tutorial Workbook

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DSpace CD Tutorial Workbook

• Stuart Lewis Chris Yates
• support_at_rsp.ac.uk

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Information

• Version
• DSpace 1.4.2
• CD and workbook created by
• Chris Yates
• chris.yates.aber.ac.uk
• Stuart Lewis
• stuart.lewis_at_aber.ac.uk

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Information

• Work provided by
• Repositories Support Project
• http//www.rsp.ac.uk/
• support_at_rsp.ac.uk
• Funded by
• JISC as part of the RepositoryNet projects

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Contents

1. Introduction to the tutorial CD
2. Create the database
3. Build DSpace
4. Deploy DSpace to the web server
5. Create DSpace users
6. Create communities and collections
7. Deposit an item

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Contents

1. Create a workflow
2. Search system initialisation
3. Scheduled background jobs
4. Enable RSS feeds and thumbnails

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Introduction to the tutorial CD

• Intended to be used with tutorial
• Ubuntu LiveCD
• DSpace version 1.4.2
• Shouldnt affect your PC
• Installs no software
• Can be reused
• DOES NOT SAVE DATA!

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Create the database

• Create a database user
• Who will own the database
• Called dspace
• Create the database
• Called dspace
• UNICODE encoding
• Owned by the dspace database user

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Build DSpace

• DSpace needs to be compiled
• Uses ant build system
• Inserts default data into the database
• Table structures
• Dublin Core metadata schema
• Bitstream formats
• Builds package for the web server
• Configuration can be changed

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Deploy to the web server

• .war files are packaged applications
• Tomcat is a Java web application server
• Tomcat automatically unpacks .war files
• Two web applications
• DSpace DSpace OAI interface
• Copy .war files to Tomcat directory
• Start Tomcat

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Create DSpace users

• Create an administrator
• Log in
• Log out
• Create a normal user
• Modify a group

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Communities collections

• Communities
• Often used to represent organisational units
• Can have sub-communities and collections
• Can be branded (logo) and have own policies
• Collections
• Holds items

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Deposit an item

• Choose collection
• Enter metadata
• Upload file
• Confirm details
• Agree to the licence

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Create a workflow

• Three workflows
• Accept/reject step
• E.g. Head of research
• Should item be included in the repository?
• Accept/reject/edit metadata step
• E.g. Repository manager
• Edit metadata step
• E.g. Librarian

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Search system initalisation

• Build indexes
• Index metadata
• Extract from database
• Index full-texts
• Extract from PDF/Doc files
• Extra MediaFilters can be written

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Scheduled background jobs

• filter-media
• Extract texts and build indexes
• sub-daily
• Email subscription emails
• checker
• checks bitstream checksums
• stat-
• statistics

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RSS feeds and thumbnails

• Configured in dspace.cfg
• RSS feeds
• webui.feed.enable falsetrue
• webui.feed.localresolve falsetrue
• Thumbnails
• webui.item.thumbnail.show truefalse
• webui.browse.thumbnail.show falsetrue