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The configuration of email is simple and provides a mechanism to alert the person(s) responsible for different features of the DSpace software.
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Informational Note: | The address on which your outgoing SMTP email server can be reached. | ||
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Informational Note: | SMTP mail server authentication username, if required. This property is optional. | ||
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Informational Note: | SMTP mail server authentication password, if required. This property is optional/ | ||
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Informational Note: | The port on which your SMTP mail server can be reached. By default, port 25 is used. Change this setting if your SMTP mailserver is running on another port. This property is optional. | ||
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Informational Note: | The "From" address for email. Change the 'myu.edu' to the site's host name. | ||
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Informational Note: | When a user clicks on the feedback link/feature, the information will be send to the email address of choice. This configuration is currently limited to only one recipient. | ||
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Informational Note: | Email address of the general site administrator (Webmaster) | ||
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Informational Note: | Enter the recipient for server errors and alerts. This property is optional. | ||
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Informational Note: | Enter the recipient that will be notified when a new user registers on DSpace. This property is optional. | ||
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Informational Note: | Set the default mail character set. This may be over-ridden by providing a line inside the email template 'charset: <encoding>', otherwise this default is used. | ||
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Informational Note: | A comma separated list of hostnames that are allowed to refer browsers to email forms. Default behavior is to accept referrals only from dspace.hostname. This property is optional. | ||
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Informational Note: | If you need to pass extra settings to the Java mail library. Comma separated, equals sign between the key and the value. This property is optional. | ||
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Informational Note: | An option is added to disable the mailserver. By default, this property is set to ' | ||
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Informational Note: | If no other language is explicitly stated in the input-forms.xml, the default language will be attributed to the metadata values. |
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DSpace supports two distinct options for storing your repository bitstreams (uploaded files). The files are not stored in the database in which Metadata, user information, ... are stored. An assetstore is a directory on your server, on which the bitstreams are stored and consulted afterwards. The usage of different assetstore directories is the default "technique" in DSpace. The parameters below define which assetstores are present, and which one should be used for newly incoming items. As an alternative, DSpace can also use SRB (Storage Resource Brokerage) as an alternative. See SRB File Storage for details regarding SRB.
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Informational Note: | This is Asset (bitstream) store number 0 (Zero). You need not place your assetstore under the /dspace directory, but may want to place it on a different logical volume on the server that DSpace resides. So, you might have something like this: | ||
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Informational Note: | This property specifies extra asset stores like the one above, counting from one (1) upwards. This property is commented out (#) until it is needed. | ||
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Informational Note: | Informational Note: Specify the number of the store to use for new bitstreams with this property. The default is 0 [zero] which corresponds to the 'assestore.dir' above. As the asset store number is stored in the item metadata (in the database), always keep the assetstore numbering consistent and don't change the asset store number in the item metadata. |
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The same framework is used to configure SRB storage. That is, the asset store number (0..n) can reference a file system directory as above or it can reference a set of SRB account parameters. But any particular asset store number can reference one or the other but not both. This way traditional and SRB storage can both be used but with different asset store numbers. The same cautions mentioned above apply to SRB asset stores as well. The particular asset store a bitstream is stored in is held in the database, so don't move bitstreams between asset stores, and do not renumber them.
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Informational Note: | Your SRB Metadata Catalog Zone. An SRB Zone (or zone for short) is a set of SRB servers 'brokered' or administered through a single MCAT. Hence a zone consists of one or more SRB servers along with one MCAT-enabled server. Any existing SRB system (version 2.x.x and below) can be viewed as an SRB zone. For more information on zones, please check http://www.sdsc.edu/srb/index.php/Zones. | ||
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Informational Note: | Your SRB domain. This domain should be created under the same zone, specified in srb.mcatzone. Information on domains is included here http://www.sdsc.edu/srb/index.php/Zones. | ||
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Informational Note: | Your default SRB Storage resource. | ||
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Informational Note: | Your SRB Username. | ||
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Informational Note: | Your SRB Password. | ||
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Informational Note: | Your SRB Homedirectory | ||
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Informational Note: | Several of the terms, such as mcatzone, have meaning only in the SRB context and will be familiar to SRB users. The last, |
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If SRB is chosen from the first install of DSpace, it is suggested that 'assetstore.dir' (no integer appended) be retained to reference a local directory (as above under File Storage) because build.xml uses this value to do a mkdir
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Logging Configuration
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Informational Note: | This is where your logging configuration file is located. You may override the default log4j configuration by providing your own. Existing alternatives are:
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Informational Note: | This is where to put the logs. (This is used for initial configuration only) | ||
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Informational Note: | If your DSpace instance is protected by a proxy server, in order for log4j to log the correct IP address of the user rather than of the proxy, it must be configured to look for the X-Forwarded-For header. This feature can be enabled by ensuring this setting is set to true. This also affects IPAuthentication, and should be enabled for that to work properly if your installation uses a proxy server. |
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Search indexes can be configured and customized easily in the dspace.cfg file. This allows institutions to choose which DSpace metadata fields are indexed by Lucene.
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Informational Note: | By setting higher values of search.max-clauses will enable prefix searches to work on larger repositories. |
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Informational Note: | It is possible to create a 'delayed index flusher'. If a web application pushes multiple search requests (i.e. a barrage or sword deposits, or multiple quick edits in the user interface), then this will combine them into a single index update. You set the property key to the number of milliseconds to wait for an update. The example value will hold a Lucene update in a queue for up to 5 seconds. After 5 seconds all waiting updates will be written to the Lucene index. |
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Informational Note: | Which Lucene Analyzer implementation to use. If this is omitted or commented out, the standard DSpace analyzer (designed for English) is used by default. This standard DSpace analyzer removes common stopwords, lowercases all words and performs stemming (removing common word endings, like "ing", "s", etc). |
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Informational Note: | Instead of the standard DSpace Analyzer (DSAnalyzer), use an analyzer which doesn't "stem" words/terms. When using this analyzer, a search for "wellness" will always return items matching "wellness" and not "well". However, similarly a search for "experiments" will only return objects matching "experiments" and not "experiment" or "experimenting". When using this analyzer, you may still use WildCard searches like "experiment*" to match the beginning of words. |
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Informational Note: | Instead of the standard English analyzer, the Chinese analyzer is used. |
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Informational Note | Boolean search operator to use. The currently supported values are OR and AND. If this configuration item is missing or commented out, OR is used. AND requires all the search terms to be present. OR requires one or more search terms to be present. |
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Informational Note: | This is the maximum number of terms indexed for a single field in Lucene. The default is 10,000 words‚ often not enough for full-text indexing. If you change this, you will need to re-index for the change to take effect on previously added items. -1 = unlimited (Integer.MAG_VALUE) |
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Informational Note | This property determines which of the metadata fields are being indexed for search. As an example, if you do not include the title field here, searching for a word in the title will not be matched with the titles of your items.. |
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XML UI requires manual coding of the involved templates instead the JSP UI provides specific configuration to set the index to show in the advanced search dropdown. Below are listed the configuration parameters
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Example Value | jspui.search.index.display.1 = ANY |
Informational Note: | Set the N-value of the index dropdown in the advanced search form. The value must match one of the defined index |
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The CNRI Handle system is a 3rd party service for maintaining persistent URL's. For a nominal fee, you can register a handle prefix for your repository. As a result, your repository items will be also available under the links http://handle.net/<<handle prefix>>/<<item id>>. As the base url of your repository might change or evolve, the persistent handle.net URL's secure the consistency of links to your repository items. For complete information regarding the Handle server, the user should consult Section 3.4.4.. The Handle Server section of Installing DSpace.
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Example Value | handle.canonical.prefix = http://hdl.handle.net/ |
Informational Note: | Canonical Handle URL prefix. By default, DSpace is configured to use http://hdl.handle.net/ as the canonical URL prefix when generating |
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Informational Note: | The default files, as shown in the Example Value is where DSpace will install the files used for the Handle Server. |
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In large repositories, setting harvest.includerestricted.oai to false may cause performance problems as all items will need to have their authorization permissions checked, but because DSpace has not implemented resumption tokens in ListIdentifiers, ALL items will need checking whenever a ListIdentifers request is made.
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Informational Note: | When set to 'true' (default), items that haven't got the READ permission for the ANONYMOUS user, will be included in RSS feeds anyway. |
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Informational Note: | When set to true (default), items that haven't got the READ permission for the ANONYMOUS user, will be included in OAI sets anyway. |
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Informational Note: | When set to true (default), items that haven't got the READ permission for the ANONYMOUS user, will be included in Subscription emails anyway. |
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These settings for proxy are commented out by default. Uncomment and specify both properties if proxy server is required for external http requests. Use regular host name without port number.
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Media Filters are configured as Named Plugins, with each filter also having a separate configuration setting (in dspace.cfg) indicating which formats it can process. The default configuration is shown below.
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Informational Note: | Place the names of the enabled MediaFilter or FormatFilter plugins. To enable Branded Preview, comment out the previous one line and then uncomment the two lines in found in dspace.cfg:
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Informational Note: | Assign "human-understandable" names to each filter | ||
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Informational Note: | It this value is set for "true", all PDF extractions are written to temp files as they are indexed. This is slower, but helps to ensure that PDFBox software DSpace uses does not eat up all your memory. | ||
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Informational Note: | If this value is set for "true", PDFs which still result in an "Out of Memory" error from PDFBox are skipped over. These problematic PDFs will never be indexed until memory usage can be decreased in the PDFBox software. |
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The value of this property is a path to a separate properties file containing the configuration for this crosswalk. The pathname is relative to the DSpace configuration directory, i.e. the config
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Informational Note: | This defines a crosswalk named MODS whose configuration comes from the file |
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The default settings in the dspace.cfg
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Informational Note: | Configuration XSLT-driven submission crosswalk for MODS |
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The following is from dspace.cfg file:
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Informational Note: | Configuration of the QDC Crosswalk dissemination plugin for Qualified DC. (Add lower-case name for OAI-PMH. That is, change QDC to qdc.)}} |
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If you are unfamiliar with the Event System in DSpace, and require additional information with terms like "Consumer" and "Dispatcher" please refer to:http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/EventSystemPrototype
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Informational Note: | This is the default synchronous dispatcher (Same behavior as traditional DSpace). |
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Informational Note: | The noindex dispatcher will not create search or browse indexes (useful for batch item imports). |
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Informational Note: | The noindex dispatcher will not create search or browse indexes (useful for batch item imports). |
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Example Value: | {{event.consumer.search.filters = }} |
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Informational Note: | Test consumer for debugging and monitoring. Commented out by default. |
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Informational Note: | Test consumer for debugging and monitoring. Commented out by default. |
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DSpace embargoes utilize standard metadata fields to hold both the 'terms' and the 'lift date'. Which fields you use are configurable, and no specific metadata element is dedicated or predefined for use in embargo. Rather, you specify exactly what field you want the embargo system to examine when it needs to find the terms or assign the lift date.
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Informational Note: | Embargo terms will be stored in the item metadata. This property determines in which metadata field these terms will be stored. An example could be dc.embargo.terms |
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Informational Note: | The Embargo lift date will be stored in the item metadata. This property determines in which metadata field the computed embargo lift date will be stored. You may need to create a DC metadata field in your Metadata Format Registry if it does not already exist. An example could be dc.embargo.liftdate |
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Informational Note: | You can determine your own values for the embargo.field.terms property (see above). This property determines what the string value will be for indefinite embargos. The string in terms field to indicate indefinite embargo. |
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Informational Note: | To implement the business logic to set your embargos, you need to override the EmbargoSetter class. If you use the value DefaultEmbargoSetter, the default implementation will be used. |
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Informational Note: | To implement the business logic to lift your embargos, you need to override the EmbargoLifter class. If you use the value DefaultEmbargoLifter, the default implementation will be used. |
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DSpace now comes with a Checksum Checker script ([dspace]/bin/dspace checker
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Informational Note: | This option specifies the default time frame after which all checksum checks are removed from the database (defaults to 10 years). This means that after 10 years, all successful or unsuccessful matches are removed from the database. |
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Informational Note: | This option specifies the time frame after which a successful match will be removed from your DSpace database (defaults to 8 weeks). This means that after 8 weeks, all successful matches are automatically deleted from your database (in order to keep that database table from growing too large). |
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The configuration settings control several aspects of this feature:
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Informational Note: | The directory where the exports will be done and compressed. |
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Informational Note | The length of time in hours each archive should live for. When new archives are created this entry is used to delete old ones. |
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Informational Note | The maximum size in Megabytes (Mb) that the export should be. This is enforced before the compression. Each bitstream's size in each item being exported is added up, if their cumulative sizes are more than this entry the export is not kicked off. |
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DSpace, through some advanced installation and setup, is able to send out an email to collections that a user has subscribed. The user who is subscribed to a collection is emailed each time an item id added or modified. The following property key controls whether or not a user should be notified of a modification.
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Informational Note: | For backwards compatibility, the subscription emails by default include any modified items. The property key is COMMENTED OUT by default. |
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It is now possible to hide metadata from public consumption that is only available to the Administrator.
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Informational Note: | Hides the metadata in the property key above except to the administrator. Fields named here are hidden in the following places UNLESS the logged-in user is an Administrator:
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These settings control two aspects of the submission process: thesis submission permission and whether or not a bitstream file is required when submitting to a collection.
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Informational Note: | Controls whether or not that the submission should be marked as a thesis. |
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Informational Note: | Whether or not a file is required to be uploaded during the "Upload" step in the submission process. The default is true. If set to "false", then the submitter (human being) has the option to skip the uploading of a file. |
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This enables the Creative Commons license step in the submission process of either the JSP or XML User Interface (JSP UI or XML UI). Submitters are given an opportunity to select a Creative Common license to accompany the item. Creative Commons licenses govern the use of the content. For further details, refer to the Creative Commons website at http://creativecommons.org . Creative Commons licensing is enabled as one step of the configurable submission process, and therefore may be configured for any given collection that has a defined submission sequence, or be part of the 'default' submission process. This process is described in the 'Customizing and Configuring Submission User Interface' section of this manual. There is a Creative Commons step already defined (step 5), but it is commented out, so enabling Creative Commons licensing is typically just a matter of uncommenting the CC License step. For the JSP UI, Creative Commons licensing is effected by opening an Iframe to the Creative Commons site and capturing the selection result in several bitstreams, but the XML UI utilizes a more flexible web service. By default, when a license is selected in the interface, the URI for the license is stored in the 'dc.rights.uri' metadata field for the Item, and a representation of the license text is stored in a license bundle. In addition, the following properties in [dspace]/config/dspace.cfg
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General Web User Interface Configurations
In this section of Configuration, we address the agnostic WEB User Interface that is used for JSPUI and XMLUI. Some of the configurations will give information towards customization or refer you to the appropriate documentation.
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Example Value: | webui.licence_bundle.show = false |
Informational Note: | Sets whether to display the contents of the license bundle (often just the deposit license in the standard DSpace installation). |
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Informational Note: | Controls whether to display thumbnails on browse and search result pages. If you have customized the Browse columnlist, then you must also include a "thumbnail" column in your configuration. _(This configuration property key is not used by XMLUI. To show thumbnails using XMLUI, you need to create a theme which displays them)._ |
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Informational Note: | This property determines the maximum height of the browse/search thumbnails in pixels (px). This only needs to be set if the thumbnails are required to be smaller than the dimensions of thumbnails generated by MediaFilter. |
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Informational Note: | This determines the maximum width of the browse/search thumbnails in pixels (px). This only needs to be set if the thumbnails are required to be smaller than the dimensions of thumbnails generated by MediaFilter. |
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Informational Note: | This determines whether or not to display the thumbnail against each bitstream. (This configuration property key is not used by XMLUI. To show thumbnails using XMLUI, you need to create a theme which displays them). |
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Informational Note: | This determines where clicks on the thumbnail in browse and search screens should lead. The only values currently supported are "item" or "bitstream", which will either take the user to the item page, or directly download the bitstream. |
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Informational Note: | This property sets the maximum width of generated thumbnails that are being displayed on item pages. |
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Informational Note: | This property sets the maximum height of generated thumbnails that are being displayed on item pages. |
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Informational Note: | An abbreviated form of the full Branded Name. This will be used when the preview image cannot fit the normal text. |
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Informational Note: | This property sets the font for your Brand text that appears with the image. |
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Informational Note: | This property sets the font point (size) for your Brand text that appears with the image. |
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Informational Note: | The Dublin Core field that will display along with the preview. This field is optional. |
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Informational Note: | Determines if communities and collections should display item counts when listed. The default behavior if omitted, is true. (This configuration property key is not used by XMLUI. To show thumbnails using XMLUI, you need to create a theme which displays them). |
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Informational Note: | When showing the strengths, should they be counted in real time, or fetched from the cache. Counts fetched in real time will perform an actual count of the database contents every time a page with this feature is requested, which will not scale. If you set the property key is set to cache ("true") you must run the following command periodically to update the count: |
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The browse indexes for DSpace can be extensively configured. This section of the configuration allows you to take control of the indexes you wish to browse, and how you wish to present the results. The configuration is broken into several parts: defining the indexes, defining the fields upon which users can sort results, defining truncation for potentially long fields (e.g. authors), setting cross-links between different browse contexts (e.g. from an author's name to a complete list of their items), how many recent submissions to display, and configuration for item mapping browse.
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Example Value: | {{webui.browse.index.1 = dateissued:metadata:dc.date.issued:date:full }} |
Informational Note: | This is an example of how one "Defines the Indexes". See Defining the Indexes in the next sub-section. |
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Informational Note: | This is an example of how one "Defines the Sort Options". See Defining Sort Options in the following sub-section. |
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Starting from DSpace 3.0 you can configure which implementation use for the Browse DAOs both for create/update operations and for read operations. This allows you to customize which browse engine is utilized in your DSpace. Options include:
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Example Value: | browseDAO.class = org.dspace.browse.SolrBrowseDAO |
Informational Note: | This property configures the java class that is used for READ operations by the Browse System. You need to have Discovery enabled to use the SOLR Browse DAOs |
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Normalization Rules are those rules that make it possible for the indexes to intermix entries without regard to case sensitivity. By default, the display of metadata in the browse indexes are case-sensitive. In the example below, you retrieve separate entries:
Twain, Marktwain, markTWAIN, MARK
However, clicking through from either of these will result in the same set of items (i.e., any item that contains either representation in the correct field).
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Informational Note: | This controls the normalization of the index entry. Uncommenting the option (which is commented out by default) will make the metadata items case-insensitive. This will result in a single entry in the example above. However, the value displayed may be any one of the above‚ depending on what representation was present in the first item indexed. |
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We set other browse values in the following section.
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Example Value: | webui.browse.metadata.show-freq.1 = false | ||
Informational Note: | This enable/disable the show of frequencies (count) in metadata browse < n > refers to the browse configuration. As default frequencies are shown for all metadata browse | ||
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Informational Note: | This sets the options for the size (number of characters) of the fields stored in the database. The default is 0, which is unlimited size for fields holding indexed data. Some database implementations (e.g. Oracle) will enforce their own limit on this field size. Reducing the field size will decrease the potential size of your database and increase the speed of the browse, but it will also increase the chance of mis-ordering of similar fields. The values are commented out, but proposed values for reasonably performance versus result quality. This affects the size of field for the browse value (this will affect display, and value sorting ) | ||
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Informational Note: | Size of field for hidden sort columns (this will affect only sorting, not display). Commented out as default. | ||
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Informational Note: | Omission mark to be placed after truncated strings in display. The default is "...". | ||
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Informational Note: | This sets the option for how the indexes are sorted. All sort normalizations are carried out by the OrderFormatDelegate. The plugin manager can be used to specify your own delegates for each datatype. The default datatypes (and delegates) are:
If you redefine a default datatype here, the configuration will be used in preferences to the default. However, if you do not explicitly redefine a datatype, then the default will still be used in addition to the datatypes you do specify. As of DSpace release 1.5.2, the multi-lingual MARC21 title ordering is configured as default, as shown in the example above. To use the previous title ordering (before release 1.5.2), comment out the configuration in your dspace.cfg file. |
Browse Index Authority Control Configuration
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This section actually applies to any field with multiple values, but authors are the define case and example here.
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Informational Note: | This defines which field is the author/editor, etc. listing. |
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We can define which fields link to other browse listings. This is useful, for example, to link an author's name to a list of just that author's items. The effect this has is to create links to browse views for the item clicked on. If it is a "single" type, it will link to a view of all the items which share that metadata element in common (i.e. all the papers by a single author). If it is a "full" type, it will link to a view of the standard full browse page, starting with the value of the link clicked on.
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Informational Note: | This is used to configure which fields should link to other browse listings. This should be associated with the name of one of the browse indexes ( |
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This allows us to define which index to base Recent Submission display on, and how many we should show at any one time. This uses the PluginManager to automatically load the relevant plugin for the Community and Collection home pages. Values given in examples are the defaults supplied in dspace.cfg
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Informational Note: | First is to define the sort name (from webui.browse.sort-options) to use for displaying recent submissions. |
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Informational Note: | Defines how many recent submissions should be displayed at any one time. |
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This will enable syndication feeds‚ links display on community and collection home pages. This setting is not used by the XMLUI, as you enable feeds in your theme.
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Informational Note: | By default, RSS feeds are set to true (on) . Change key to "false" to disable. | ||
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Informational Note: | Defines the number of DSpace items per feed (the most recent submissions) | ||
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Informational Note: | Defines the maximum number of feeds in memory cache. Value of " | ||
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Informational Note: | Defines the number of hours to keep cached feeds before checking currency. The value of "0" will force a check with each request. | ||
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Informational Note: | Defines which syndication formats to offer. You can use more than one; use a comma-separated list. The following list are the available values: rss_0.90, rss_0.91, rss_0.92, rss_0.93, rss_0.94, rss_1.0, rss_2.0, atom_1.0. | ||
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Informational Note: | By default, (set to false), URLs returned by the feed will point at the global handle resolver (e.g. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1). If set to true the local server URLs are used (e.g. http://myserver.myorg/handle/123456789/1). | ||
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Informational Note: | This property customizes each single-value field displayed in the feed information for each item. Each of the fields takes a single metadata field. The form of the key is <scheme prefix>.<element>.<qualifier> In place of the qualifier, one may leave it blank to exclude any qualifiers or use the wildcard "*" to include all qualifiers for a particular element. | ||
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Informational Note: | This property customizes each single-value field displayed in the feed information for each item. Each of the fields takes a single metadata field. The form of the key is <scheme prefix>.<element>.<qualifier> In place of the qualifier, one may leave it blank to exclude any qualifiers or use the wildcard "*" to include all qualifiers for a particular element. | ||
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Informational Note: | One can customize the metadata fields to show in the feed for each item's description. Elements are displayed in the order they are specified in dspace.cfg.Like other property keys, the format of this property key is: webui.feed.item.description = <scheme prefix>.<element>.<qualifier>. In place of the qualifier, one may leave it blank to exclude any qualifiers or use the wildcard "*" to include all qualifiers for a particular element. | ||
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Informational Note: | The name of field to use for authors (Atom only); repeatable. | ||
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Informational Note: | Customize the image icon included with the site-wide feeds. This must be an absolute URL. | ||
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Informational Note: | This optional property adds structured DC elements as XML elements to the feed description. They are not the same thing as, for example, webui.feed.item.description. Useful when a program or stylesheet will be transforming a feed and wants separate author, description, date, etc. | ||
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Informational Note: | This optional property adds structured DC elements as XML elements to the feed description. They are not the same thing as, for example, webui.feed.item.description. Useful when a program or stylesheet will be transforming a feed and wants separate author, description, date, etc. | ||
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Informational Note: | This optional property adds structured DC elements as XML elements to the feed description. They are not the same thing as, for example, webui.feed.item.description. Useful when a program or stylesheet will be transforming a feed and wants separate author, description, date, etc. | ||
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Informational Note: | This optional property enables Podcast Support on the RSS feed for the specified collection handles. The podcast is iTunes compatible and will expose the bitstreams in the items for viewing and download by the podcast reader. Multiple values are separated by commas. For more on using/enabling Media RSS Feeds to share content via iTunesU, see: Enable Media RSS Feeds | ||
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Informational Note: | This optional property enables Podcast Support on the RSS feed for the specified community handles. The podcast is iTunes compatible and will expose the bitstreams in the items for viewing and download by the podcast reader. Multiple values are separated by commas. For more on using/enabling Media RSS Feeds to share content via iTunesU, see: Enable Media RSS Feeds | ||
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Informational Note: | This optional property for Podcast Support, allows you to choose which MIME types of bitstreams are to be enclosed in the podcast feed. Multiple values are separated by commas. For more on using/enabling Media RSS Feeds to share content via iTunesU, see: Enable Media RSS Feeds | ||
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Informational Note: | This optional property for the Podcast Support will allow you to use a value for a metadata field as a replacement for actual bitstreams to be enclosed in the RSS feed. A use case for specifying the external sourceuri would be if you have a non-DSpace media streaming server that has a copy of your media file that you would prefer to have the media streamed from. For more on using/enabling Media RSS Feeds to share content via iTunesU, see: Enable Media RSS Feeds |
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Please note that for result data formatting, OpenSearch uses Syndication Feed Settings (RSS). So, even if Syndication Feeds are not enable, they must be configured to enable OpenSearch. OpenSearch uses all the configuration properties for DSpace RSS to determine the mapping of metadata fields to feed fields. Note that a new field for authors has been added (used in Atom format only).
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Informational Note: | Whether or not OpenSearch is enabled. By default, the feature is disabled. Change the property key to 'true' to enable. |
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Informational Note: | Context for HTML request URLs. Change only for non-standard servlet mapping. |
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Informational Note: | Context for RSS/Atom request URLs. Change only for non-standard servlet mapping. |
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Informational Note: | Present autodiscovery link in every page head. |
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Informational Note: | Number of hours to retain results before recalculating. This applies to the Manakin interface only. |
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Informational Note: | A short name used in browsers for search service. It should be sixteen (16) or fewer characters. |
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Informational Note: | A longer name up to 48 characters. |
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Example Value: | _websvc.opensearch.faviconurl = http://www.dspace.org/images/favicon.ico_ |
Informational Note: | Location of favicon for service, if any. They must by 16 x 16 pixels. You can provide your own local favicon instead of the default. |
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Informational Note: | Sample query. This should return results. You can replace the sample query with search terms that should actually yield results in your repository. |
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Informational Note: | Tags used to describe search service. |
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Informational Note: | Result formats offered. Use one or more comma-separated from the list: html, atom, rss. Please note that html is required for auto discovery in browsers to function, and must be the first in the list if present. |
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The following configuration is used to change the disposition behavior of the browser. That is, when the browser will attempt to open the file or download it to the user-specified location. For example, the default size is 8MB. When an item being viewed is larger than 8MB, the browser will download the file to the desktop (or wherever you have it set to download) and the user will have to open it manually.
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Informational Note: | The default value is set to 8MB. This property key applies to the JSPUI interface. |
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The setting is used to configure the "depth" of request for html documents bearing the same name.
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Informational Note: | When serving up composite HTML items in the JSP UI, how deep can the request be for us to serve up a file with the same name? For example, if one receives a request for "foo/bar/index.html" and one has a bitstream called just "index.html", DSpace will serve up the former bitstream (foo/bar/index.html) for the request if webui.html.max-depth-guess is 2 or greater. If webui.html.max-depth-guess is 1 or less, then DSpace would not serve that bitstream, as the depth of the file is greater. If webui.html.max-depth-guess is zero, the request filename and path must always exactly match the bitstream name. The default is set to 3. |
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Informational Note: | When serving up composite HTML items in the XMLUI, how deep can the request be for us to serve up a file with the same name? For example, if one receives a request for "foo/bar/index.html" and one has a bitstream called just "index.html", DSpace will serve up the former bitstream (foo/bar/index.html) for the request if webui.html.max-depth-guess is 2 or greater. If xmlui.html.max-depth-guess is 1 or less, then DSpace would not serve that bitstream, as the depth of the file is greater. If _webui.html.max-depth-guess _is zero, the request filename and path must always exactly match the bitstream name. The default is set to 3. |
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To aid web crawlers index the content within your repository, you can make use of sitemaps.
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Informational Note: | The directory where the generate sitemaps are stored. |
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Example Value: | _sitemap.engineurls = http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=_ |
Informational Note: | Comma-separated list of search engine URLs to 'ping' when a new Sitemap has been created. Include everything except the Sitemap UL itself (which will be URL-encoded and appended to form the actual URL 'pinged').Add the following to the above parameter if you have an application ID with Yahoo: http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorererService/V1/updateNotification?appid=REPLACE_ME?url=_ . (Replace the component _REPLACE_ME with your application ID). There is no known 'ping' URL for MSN/Live search. |
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For an in-depth description of this feature, please consult: Authority Control of Metadata Values
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Informational Note: | Location (URL) of the Library of Congress Name Service | ||
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Informational Note: | Location (URL) of the SHERPA/RoMEO authority plugin | ||
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Informational Note: | This sets the default lowest confidence level at which a metadata value is included in an authority-controlled browse (and search) index. It is a symbolic keyword, one of the following values (listed in descending order): accepted, uncertain, ambiguous, notfound, failed, rejected, novalue, unset. See | ||
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Informational Note: | This property sets the number of selectable choices in the Choices lookup popup |
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To alter these properties for the XMLUI, please consult the Cocoon specific configuration at /WEB-INF/cocoon/properties/core.properties.
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Informational Note: | This property sets where DSpace temporarily stores uploaded files. |
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Informational Note: | Maximum size of uploaded files in bytes. A negative setting will result in no limit being set. The default is set for 512Mb. |
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The following section is limited to JSPUI. If the user wishes to use XMLUI settings, please refer to Chapter 7: XMLUI Configuration and Customization.
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Informational Note: | This is used to customize the DC metadata fields that display in the item display (the brief display) when pulling up a record. The format is: | ||
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Informational Note: | When using "resolver" in webui.itemdisplay to render identifiers as resolvable links, the base URL is take from <code>webui.resolver.<n>.baseurl<code> where <code>webui.resolver.<n>.baseurl<code> matches the urn specified in the metadata value. The value is appended to the "baseurl" as is, so the baseurl needs to end with the forward slash almost in any case. If no urn is specified in the value it will be displayed as simple text. For the doi and hdl urn defaults values are provided, respectively http://dc.doi.org and http://hdl.handle.net are used. If a metadata value with style "doi", "handle" or "resolver" matches a URL already, it is simply rendered as a link with no other manipulation. | ||
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Informational Note: | Specify which strategy to use for select the style for an item. | ||
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Informational Note: | Specify which collections use which views by Handle. | ||
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Informational Note: | Specify which metadata to use as name of the style | ||
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Informational Note: | Customize the DC fields to use in the item listing page. Elements will be displayed left to right in the order they are specified here. The form is <schema prefix>.<element>[.<qualifier> | .*][(date)], ... | ||
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Informational Note: | You can customize the width of each column with the following line--you can have numbers (pixels) or percentages. For the 'thumbnail' column, a setting of '*' will use the max width specified for browse thumbnails (cf. | ||
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Informational Note: | You can override the DC fields used on the listing page for a given browse index and/or sort option. As a sort option or index may be defined on a field that isn't normally included in the list, this allows you to display the fields that have been indexed/sorted on. There are a number of forms the configuration can take, and the order in which they are listed below is the priority in which they will be used (so a combination of an index name and sort name will take precedence over just the browse name).In the last case, a sort option name will always take precedence over a browse index name. Note also, that for any additional columns you list, you will need to ensure there is an itemlist.<field name> entry in the messages file. | ||
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Informational Note: | This would display the date of the accession in place of the issue date whenever the dateaccessioned browsed index or sort option is selected. Just like webui.itemlist.columns, you will need to include a 'thumbnail' entry to display the thumbnails in the item list. | ||
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Informational Note: | As in the aforementioned property key, you can customize the width of the columns for each configured column list, substituting '.widths' for '.columns' in the property name. See the setting for webui.itemlist.widths for more information. | ||
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Informational Note: | Enable or disable session invalidation upon login or logout. This feature is enabled by default to help prevent session hijacking but may cause problems for shibboleth, etc. If omitted, the default value is 'true'. [Only used for JSPUI authentication]. |
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Setting the Default Language for the Application
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Supporting More Than One Language
Changes in dspace.cfg
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Informational Note: | All the locales that are supported by this instance of DSpace. Comma separated list. |
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Define the index name (from webui.browse.index) to use for displaying items by author.
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Informational Note: | If you change the name of your author browse field, you will also need to update this property key. |
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Informational Note: | To display group membership set to "true". If omitted, the default behavior is false. |
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SFX Server is an OpenURL Resolver.
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JSPUI Item Recommendation Setting
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Example Value: | webui.suggest.enable = true |
Informational Note: | Show a link to the item recommendation page from item display page. |
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Informational Note: | Enable only if the user is logged in. If this key commented out, the default value is false. |
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DSpace now supports controlled vocabularies to confine the set of keywords that users can use while describing items.
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Informational Note: | Enable or disable the controlled vocabulary add-on. WARNING: This feature is not compatible with WAI (it requires JavaScript to function). |
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3. JSPUI Session Invalidation
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Informational Note: | Enable or disable session invalidation upon login or logout. This feature is enabled by default to help prevent session hijacking but may cause problems for shibboleth, etc. If omitted, the default value is 'true'. |
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The DSpace digital repository supports two user interfaces: one based upon JSP technologies and the other based upon the Apache Cocoon framework. This section describes those configurations settings which are specific to the XMLUI interface based upon the Cocoon framework. (Prior to DSpace Release 1.5.1 XMLUI was referred to Manakin. You may still see references to "Manakin")
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Informational Note: | A list of supported locales for Manakin. Manakin will look at a user's browser configuration for the first language that appears in this list to make available to in the interface. This parameter is a comma separated list of Locales. All types of Locales country, country_language, country_language_variant. Note that if the appropriate files are not present (i.e. Messages_XX_XX.xml) then Manakin will fall back through to a more general language. |
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Informational Note: | Force all authenticated connections to use SSL, only non-authenticated connections are allowed over plain http. If set to true, then you need to ensure that the 'dspace.hostname' parameter is set to the correctly. |
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Informational Note: | Determine if new users should be allowed to register. This parameter is useful in conjunction with Shibboleth where you want to disallow registration because Shibboleth will automatically register the user. Default value is true. |
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Informational Note: | Determines if users should be able to edit their own metadata. This parameter is useful in conjunction with Shibboleth where you want to disable the user's ability to edit their metadata because it came from Shibboleth. Default value is true. |
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Informational Note: | Determine if super administrators (those whom are in the Administrators group) can login as another user from the "edit eperson" page. This is useful for debugging problems in a running dspace instance, especially in the workflow process. The default value is false, i.e., no one may assume the login of another user. |
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Informational Note: | After a user has logged into the system, which url should they be directed? Leave this parameter blank or undefined to direct users to the homepage, or /profile for the user's profile, or another reasonable choice is /submissions to see if the user has any tasks awaiting their attention. The default is the repository home page. |
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Informational Note: | Allow the user to override which theme is used to display a particular page. When submitting a request add the HTTP parameter "themepath" which corresponds to a particular theme, that specified theme will be used instead of the any other configured theme. Note that this is a potential security hole allowing execution of unintended code on the server, this option is only for development and debugging it should be turned off for any production repository. The default value unless otherwise specified is "false". |
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Informational Note: | Determine which bundles administrators and collection administrators may upload into an existing item through the administrative interface. If the user does not have the appropriate privileges (add and write) on the bundle then that bundle will not be shown to the user as an option. |
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Informational Note: | On the community-list page should all the metadata about a community/collection be available to the theme. This parameter defaults to true, but if you are experiencing performance problems on the community-list page you should experiment with turning this option off. |
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Informational Note: | Normally, Manakin will fully verify any cache pages before using a cache copy. This means that when the community-list page is viewed the database is queried for each community/collection to see if their metadata has been modified. This can be expensive for repositories with a large community tree. To help solve this problem you can set the cache to be assumed valued for a specific set of time. The downside of this is that new or editing communities/collections may not show up the website for a period of time. |
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Informational Note: | Optionally, you may configure Manakin to take advantage of metadata stored as a bitstream. The MODS metadata file must be inside the "METADATA" bundle and named MODS.xml. If this option is set to 'true' and the bitstream is present then it is made available to the theme for display. |
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Informational Note: | Optionally, you may configure Manakin to take advantage of metadata stored as a bitstream. The METS metadata file must be inside the "METADATA" bundle and named METS.xml. If this option is set to "true" and the bitstream is present then it is made available to the theme for display. |
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Informational Note: | If you would like to use Google Analytics to track general website statistics then use the following parameter to provide your analytics key. First sign up for an account at http://analytics.google.com, then create an entry for your repositories website. Google Analytics will give you a snippet of javascript code to place on your site, inside that snip it is your Google Analytics key usually found in the line: _uacct = "UA-XXXXXXX-X" Take this key (just the UA-XXXXXX-X part) and place it here in this parameter. |
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Informational Note: | Assign how many page views will be recorded and displayed in the control panel's activity viewer. The activity tab allows an administrator to debug problems in a running DSpace by understanding who and how their dspace is currently being used. The default value is 250. |
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Informational Note: | Determine where the control panel's activity viewer receives an events IP address from. If your DSpace is in a load balanced environment or otherwise behind a context-switch then you will need to set the parameter to the HTTP parameter that records the original IP address. |
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