We are in the process of ingesting a backlog of 400+ digitised legacy publications (from as far back as the 1970s) into SALDRU’s production DSpace instance at work [1]. The digitised PDF documents were shared via Dropbox and corresponding RDF files (containing metadata records) [2] sent seperately. Continue reading “RDF to DSpace Simple Archive Format”
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DSpace Ingestion Performance Degradation
As part of my performance evaluations for my research [1], I designed a comparative experiment aimed at comparing certain operations of our approach with DSpace. I had initially estimated the completion time for the ingest process of the last remaining of my 15 workloads [2] at 7 days, however, today marks day number 11 from the time I started ingesting the 1,638,400 records; notwithstanding the fact that results from this workload are in no way going to change what I’ve been able to infer from results of the other 14 workloads. So I decided to try and figure out why performance has degraded… Continue reading “DSpace Ingestion Performance Degradation”
[Screencasts] DSpace Via IIS Using ISAPI Filter Plugin
Today was really nice, except for the weather though; it was bitterly cold and I tend to get really home sick when it gets this cold. I still got to learn quite a bit about how things work in a typical Windows server environment though. So I spent the early hours of this afternoon with a colleague who manages the MS Win 2K3 i386 production server where the DSpace instance I set up is going to run from; we were essentially configuring IIS to proxy requests through to Tomcat 6… Continue reading “[Screencasts] DSpace Via IIS Using ISAPI Filter Plugin”
[Screencast] DSpace Faceted Searching – Discovery Module Configuration
DSpace’s discovery module [1] enhances the overall platform search capabilities, and was first integrated with the XMLUI in version 1.7.0 [2]. The discovery module, once activated, enables faceted searching and browsing. Faceted search/navigation/browsing is widely used in a number of sites. Some notable use of faceted searching include Google’s search engine [3] and LinkedIn’s faceted people search feature [4, 5]. Continue reading “[Screencast] DSpace Faceted Searching – Discovery Module Configuration”
[Screencasts] Installing DSpace on Windows 2003 Server
I am suppose to install a DSpace instance –on a Windows 2003 server platform– in the next couple of days and had to create a sandbox. I had no choice but to install Windows 2003 on virtualbox. I’ve created a series of screencasts that depict how one would go about installing DSpace on Windows 2003 server. Please comment if I did something I shouldn’t have done or if there are easier ways of performing certain tasks. I hope this helps someone out there. Continue reading “[Screencasts] Installing DSpace on Windows 2003 Server”