The RSP team held a DSpace technical day here in Bath on Monday 12th November. It was a great chance to catch up with a few people from the RSP summer school from back in June, and to ask a few questions about DSpace. Interesting points
- There’s a patch for DSpace 1.4 (included in 1.5) for IP authentication – this would be really useful for UG dissertations or masters dissertations – could these be available on campus only?
- The number that displays beside a collection title showing the number of collection items – these are called ’strengths’ (??!) Should be a simple matter of switching this on..
- Keep log files separately – probably a standard technical procedure – saves disk space in case of repeating errors
- It’s possible to preset ‘Bath’ as the institution for theses.
- Register with ROAR (done). Southampton peeps also wrote the irstats package – sounds good, particularly as it recognises robot/spider visits to a site..
Statue near Iford Manor, near Bath – great walk between here and Farleigh Hungerford castle (remains of..!)
