Schedule periodic execution of scripts

DSpace-API contains scripts JAVA that perform maintenance operation or batch manipulation of the platform content.

They can be executed from the installation folder /bin using the special dspace command

The dspace command accepts as parameter the name of the script to execute as configured in the config/launcher.xml file.

The following features are based on script that should be run periodically via CRONTAB

• Bibliometrics, see

  • Scopus Metrics
  • H-Index Metrics
  • WOS (Web of Science) Metrics

• Usage data as metrics, see Usage statistics data generators

• Automatic retrieval of Scopus Publication, see Scanning Scopus for additional publications in profiles

• Automatic retrieval of Web of Science Publication, see Scanning WOS (Web of Science) for additional publications in profiles

• ORCID Push, see ORCID Synchronization

The above features are in addition to the DSpace 7 features

• the e-mail subscription feature that alerts users of new items being deposited;

• the 'media filter' tool, that generates thumbnails of images and extracts the full-text of documents for indexing;

• the 'checksum checker' that tests the bitstreams in your repository for corruption;

• the curation system queueing feature, which allows administrators to "queue" tasks (to run at a later time) from the Admin UI;

• and the registration of DOIs using DataCite as registration agency.

that require periodic execution via CRONTAB, please be sure to review also the DSpace 7 dedicated documentation page Scheduled Tasks via Cron