From will.sexton at duke.edu Mon Mar 8 15:07:54 2004 From: will.sexton at duke.edu (will.sexton@duke.edu) Date: Mon Mar 8 15:08:38 2004 Subject: [SPTUsers] SPT performance, "sticky searches" Message-ID: Perkins Library at Duke University recently debuted a reimplementation of our DW3 project, accomplished by migrating data from static web pages into the Scout Portal Toolkit. The reimplementation is here: http://www.lib.duke.edu/dw3/ While we were building the DW3 database in SPT on a development server, performance was fine, and the domain specialists had no problem with our installation. However, once we'd moved the installation to our production web server, we noticed a considerable drop-off in performance. In particular, the process of adding new records and updating existing records with the Metadata Tool has become prohibitively slow. The librarian who's maintaining the db tried unsuccessfully to revise a record and got this time-out message: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /WWW/htdocs/dw3/include/SPT--Recommender.php on line 426 I understand that this issue may be related to SPT's having to share resources with a busy production web server (Apache, fwiw). I'm wondering if anyone else has tried to run SPT in such an environment and faced similar problems? Are users generally running their installations on web servers dedicated to SPT? And can anyone recommend optimizations for performance? There's a second issue, reported by the same librarian, and I'm going to quote her note on this: In the metadata tool the search isn't always 'sticky'. I've lately been doing a search for any with the release flag 'not ok for viewing,' which nets about 300 records and when I click 'next 20 results' my results sets expanded to this: Results 21 - 40 of 2435. It seems sticky in the public interface though, and works in the metadata tool if I do a search for words in the description. It is also sticky if you do another dropdown-only search, like domain. So maybe this is just a strange case. /quote Any help/thoughts appreciated! Will -- Will Sexton / Metadata Architect * Research & Content Development Perkins Library * Duke University / http://www.duke.edu/~wsexton/ From lwallis at sfsu.edu Mon Mar 8 16:10:44 2004 From: lwallis at sfsu.edu (Lisa Wallis) Date: Mon Mar 8 16:11:14 2004 Subject: [SPTUsers] help with installation Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20040308135501.01200658@sfsu.edu> I am attempting to install SPT on a site hosted by lunarpages.com. They offer Apache 1.3.29, PHP 4.3.3, MySQL 4.0.15, and Perl 5.8.1. I do not have telnet access, but instead must use FTP or their cpanel GUI. I placed the two SPT files in my cgi-bin folder, created an empty SPT folder, and modified sptinstall like this: # default installation directory and web address my($DefaultDstDir) = "/home/public6/public_html/".$AppShortName; my($DefaultWebAddressDir) = "/".$AppShortName."/"; [snip] my($WebAddress) = "http://(my site's URL)"; To run the install I pointed my browser to http://(my site's URL)/cgi-bin/sptinstall-1.2.2 Everything appears to run without problems. Here is the message I get at completion: Scout Portal Toolkit v1.2.2 Installer This program will ask you for information needed to install the Scout Portal Toolkit. Default settings, when available, will appear after the questions in [square brackets]. If you want to use the default setting you can just hit Enter. The Scout Portal Toolkit will be installed in the location you specify. This installation directory should be somewhere accessible by your web server. Installation Directory [/home/public6/public_html/SPT]: Using installation directory /home/public6/public_html/SPT Using web address http://(my site's URL)/ Checking PHP version...okay. Unpacking distribution archive...done. Copying files to install destination...done. Preparing for configuration file...done. Setting file permissions...done. Setting link to index.php...done. Setting up subdirectories...done. Setting up links in subdirectories...done. Crontab file already contains entry for this SPT installation. The command-line portion of the installation has finished successfully. To complete installation of the Scout Portal Toolkit go to: http://(my site's URL)/SPT--Install.php with your web browser and follow the instructions given there. Thank you for using the Scout Portal Toolkit! However, when I try to browse to http://(my site's URL)/SPT--Install.php, I get a 404 error. Not Found The requested URL /SPT--Install.php was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Any ideas about what might be going wrong with the install? Thanks. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Lisa C. Wallis, MSPH, MS, AHIP Senior Assistant Librarian Life & Health Sciences Liaison San Francisco State University J. Paul Leonard Library 1630 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132 Phone: (415) 405-0933 http://online.sfsu.edu/~lwallis/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://scout.wisc.edu/pipermail/sptusers/attachments/20040308/fd0ef7d1/attachment.htm From Lotus.Ong at nottingham.edu.my Thu Mar 11 01:39:10 2004 From: Lotus.Ong at nottingham.edu.my (Lotus Ong) Date: Thu Mar 11 01:39:38 2004 Subject: [SPTUsers] Disable the Full Record Title hyperlink Message-ID: I would like to disable the Full Record Title hyperlink that based on the URL , but enable the hyperlink in the URL. In order word, I want to swap the hyperlink from Title to URL. I couldn't figure out how to customize the SPT--FullRecoard.php script. Any help on this problem is very much appreciated. Regards Lotus Ong Lotus Ong Cho Chuan IT Support Manager Information Services University of Nottingham , Malaysia Campus Wisma MISC 2 Jalan Conlay 50450 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Tel: (603) 2140 8176 Fax: (603) 2715 2158 http://www.nottingham.edu.my From ealmasy at scout.wisc.edu Thu Mar 11 07:30:28 2004 From: ealmasy at scout.wisc.edu (Edward Almasy) Date: Thu Mar 11 07:31:54 2004 Subject: [SPTUsers] Disable the Full Record Title hyperlink In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040311133028.GJ6468@fromage.scout.wisc.edu> On Thu, Mar 11, at 03:39:10PM, Lotus Ong wrote: > I would like to disable the Full Record Title hyperlink that based on > the URL , but enable the hyperlink in the URL. In order word, I want to > swap the hyperlink from Title to URL. > I couldn't figure out how to customize the SPT--FullRecoard.php > script. The HTML for that is actually in the PrintResource() function in SPT--Common.html in the "include" directory for whichever user interface you're using (e.g. SPTUI--CWIS/include/SPT--Common.html). That HTML is used everywhere a resource summary is displayed (browsing, search results, new resources, etc). Ed -- Edward Almasy ealmasy@scout.wisc.edu Co-Director 1308 W Dayton Street Internet Scout Project Madison WI 53706 Computer Sciences Department 608-262-6606 (voice) University of Wisconsin - Madison 608-265-9296 (fax) From bwiegan at scout.wisc.edu Thu Mar 11 08:55:16 2004 From: bwiegan at scout.wisc.edu (Barry Wiegan) Date: Thu Mar 11 08:55:57 2004 Subject: [SPTUsers] Disable the Full Record Title hyperlink In-Reply-To: <20040311133028.GJ6468@fromage.scout.wisc.edu> References: <20040311133028.GJ6468@fromage.scout.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <40507DD4.4030406@scout.wisc.edu> Actually, the code for that is in SPT--FullRecord.php in PrintAllFields() in the current release (1.2.2). In this latest release, both Title and Url are hyperlinked in the Full Record display. It would be easy to disable the Title there (under the MDFTYPE_TEXT case) if that is what you prefer. Barry Edward Almasy wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, at 03:39:10PM, Lotus Ong wrote: > >>I would like to disable the Full Record Title hyperlink that based on >>the URL , but enable the hyperlink in the URL. In order word, I want to >>swap the hyperlink from Title to URL. >>I couldn't figure out how to customize the SPT--FullRecoard.php >>script. > > > The HTML for that is actually in the PrintResource() function in > SPT--Common.html in the "include" directory for whichever user interface > you're using (e.g. SPTUI--CWIS/include/SPT--Common.html). That HTML is > used everywhere a resource summary is displayed (browsing, search results, > new resources, etc). > > Ed > > -- Barry Wiegan Sr. Software Engineer Internet Scout Project Madison, WI bwiegan@scout.wisc.edu From ealmasy at scout.wisc.edu Thu Mar 11 09:34:08 2004 From: ealmasy at scout.wisc.edu (Edward Almasy) Date: Thu Mar 11 09:34:43 2004 Subject: [SPTUsers] Disable the Full Record Title hyperlink In-Reply-To: <40507DD4.4030406@scout.wisc.edu> References: <20040311133028.GJ6468@fromage.scout.wisc.edu> <40507DD4.4030406@scout.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <20040311153408.GN6468@fromage.scout.wisc.edu> On Thu, Mar 11, at 08:55:16AM, Barry Wiegan wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 11, at 03:39:10PM, Lotus Ong wrote: > >>I would like to disable the Full Record Title hyperlink that based on > >>the URL , but enable the hyperlink in the URL. In order word, I want to > >>swap the hyperlink from Title to URL. > > Actually, the code for that is in SPT--FullRecord.php in > PrintAllFields() in the current release (1.2.2). In this > latest release, both Title and Url are hyperlinked in > the Full Record display. It would be easy to disable > the Title there (under the MDFTYPE_TEXT case) if that > is what you prefer. Sorry -- I misread the question -- Barry is correct: the code that creates the title link on the Full Record page is in SPT--FullRecord.php. In future releases it will be moved to SPT--FullRecord.html, so that it can be specific to each user interface and any customizations will be persistent, but for now you'll have to change it in PrintAllFields() in the .php file. For SPT version 1.2.2, to remove the link from the Title field, remove the word "else" from line 188 of SPT--FullRecord.php and delete lines 181 through 187. Ed -- Edward Almasy ealmasy@scout.wisc.edu Co-Director 1308 W Dayton Street Internet Scout Project Madison WI 53706 Computer Sciences Department 608-262-6606 (voice) University of Wisconsin - Madison 608-265-9296 (fax) From Jim.Coble at duke.edu Fri Mar 12 13:52:43 2004 From: Jim.Coble at duke.edu (Jim Coble) Date: Fri Mar 12 13:53:33 2004 Subject: [SPTUsers] Does SPT 1.2.2 OAI interface support "set"? Message-ID: We are currently running SPT 1.1.2. I've just begun experimenting with the OAI interface and got far enough to learn that, in SPT 1.1.2 anyway, the OAI does not support the "set" attribute for the ListRecords operation. Does anyone know if it does in SPT 1.2.2? If so, it'll be good motivation to finally upgrade ;-) --Jim ================================== Jim Coble Senior Technology Specialist Center for Instructional Technology Email: jim.coble@duke.edu Voice: 919-660-5974 Fax: 919-660-5923 Box 90198, Duke University Durham, NC 27708-0198 ================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://scout.wisc.edu/pipermail/sptusers/attachments/20040312/d46e5497/attachment.htm From ealmasy at scout.wisc.edu Fri Mar 12 15:22:30 2004 From: ealmasy at scout.wisc.edu (Edward Almasy) Date: Fri Mar 12 15:23:23 2004 Subject: [SPTUsers] Does SPT 1.2.2 OAI interface support "set"? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040312212230.GS6468@fromage.scout.wisc.edu> On Fri, Mar 12, at 02:52:43PM, Jim Coble wrote: > We are currently running SPT 1.1.2. I've just begun experimenting with > the OAI interface and got far enough to learn that, in SPT 1.1.2 anyway, > the OAI does not support the "set" attribute for the ListRecords > operation. Does anyone know if it does in SPT 1.2.2? If so, it'll be > good motivation to finally upgrade ;-) The current version of SPT does not support sets for OAI, in part because there didn't seem to be any interest in that functionality when we initially asked people what they wanted from OAI support a couple of years ago. What or how were you thinking of using sets? Ed P.S. (There are other reasons to upgrade, like a new OAI configuration interface and support for qualifiers in OAI harvested data. :-)) -- Edward Almasy ealmasy@scout.wisc.edu Co-Director 1308 W Dayton Street Internet Scout Project Madison WI 53706 Computer Sciences Department 608-262-6606 (voice) University of Wisconsin - Madison 608-265-9296 (fax) From Jim.Coble at duke.edu Fri Mar 12 15:32:28 2004 From: Jim.Coble at duke.edu (Jim Coble) Date: Fri Mar 12 15:33:15 2004 Subject: [SPTUsers] Does SPT 1.2.2 OAI interface support "set"? Message-ID: As I said, I've just begun experimenting with OAI and SPT so there may be far better ways to accomplish what I have in mind but here it is ... Our SPT database contains records of instructional technology resources of interest to a variety of disciplines. What I was hoping to be able to do was a "ListRecords" request that could limit the harvested metadata to those records with a particular value in the "subject" field; something like this "...&set=subject:Chemistry" (that may not be the right syntax ... I'm doing it from memory but I think it's something like that). Does this make sense? Is there a better way to do this? Thanks. --Jim ================================== Jim Coble Senior Technology Specialist Center for Instructional Technology Email: jim.coble@duke.edu Voice: 919-660-5974 Fax: 919-660-5923 Box 90198, Duke University Durham, NC 27708-0198 ================================== Edward Almasy 03/12/2004 04:22 PM To: Jim Coble cc: sptusers@scout.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [SPTUsers] Does SPT 1.2.2 OAI interface support "set"? On Fri, Mar 12, at 02:52:43PM, Jim Coble wrote: > We are currently running SPT 1.1.2. I've just begun experimenting with > the OAI interface and got far enough to learn that, in SPT 1.1.2 anyway, > the OAI does not support the "set" attribute for the ListRecords > operation. Does anyone know if it does in SPT 1.2.2? If so, it'll be > good motivation to finally upgrade ;-) The current version of SPT does not support sets for OAI, in part because there didn't seem to be any interest in that functionality when we initially asked people what they wanted from OAI support a couple of years ago. What or how were you thinking of using sets? Ed P.S. (There are other reasons to upgrade, like a new OAI configuration interface and support for qualifiers in OAI harvested data. :-)) -- Edward Almasy ealmasy@scout.wisc.edu Co-Director 1308 W Dayton Street Internet Scout Project Madison WI 53706 Computer Sciences Department 608-262-6606 (voice) University of Wisconsin - Madison 608-265-9296 (fax) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://scout.wisc.edu/pipermail/sptusers/attachments/20040312/9e3f3bbf/attachment.htm From will.sexton at duke.edu Fri Mar 12 16:26:04 2004 From: will.sexton at duke.edu (will.sexton@duke.edu) Date: Fri Mar 12 16:26:48 2004 Subject: [SPTUsers] Does SPT 1.2.2 OAI interface support "set"? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I agree that an implementation of OAI sets in SPT would valuable. IMO, sets ought to derive from classifications, rather than the subject field. For one thing, I noticed that an item's classifications are not represented in SPT's OAI output, and deriving set definitions from them makes more sense than, say, mapping them into the DC subject field. Also, the classifications in SPT resemble OAI's minimal definiton of sets somewhat: they're hierarchical, and can have many-to-many relationship with items. Finally, OAI isn't really designed for the provider to slice datasets according the values of individual DC fields, ie, on a subject=foo query. At least in theory, that functionality is left up to the application that harvests the data. Just .02 on a Friday afternoon; I'll read it again on Monday morning to see if I still believe it :-) Will On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Jim Coble wrote: > As I said, I've just begun experimenting with OAI and SPT so there may be > far better ways to accomplish what I have in mind but here it is ... > > Our SPT database contains records of instructional technology resources of > interest to a variety of disciplines. What I was hoping to be able to do > was a "ListRecords" request that could limit the harvested metadata to > those records with a particular value in the "subject" field; something > like this "...&set=subject:Chemistry" (that may not be the right syntax > ... I'm doing it from memory but I think it's something like that). > > Does this make sense? Is there a better way to do this? > > Thanks. > --Jim > > ================================== > Jim Coble > Senior Technology Specialist > Center for Instructional Technology > Email: jim.coble@duke.edu > Voice: 919-660-5974 Fax: 919-660-5923 > Box 90198, Duke University > Durham, NC 27708-0198 > ================================== > > > > > > Edward Almasy > 03/12/2004 04:22 PM > > > To: Jim Coble > cc: sptusers@scout.wisc.edu > Subject: Re: [SPTUsers] Does SPT 1.2.2 OAI interface support "set"? > > > On Fri, Mar 12, at 02:52:43PM, Jim Coble wrote: > > We are currently running SPT 1.1.2. I've just begun experimenting with > > the OAI interface and got far enough to learn that, in SPT 1.1.2 anyway, > > > the OAI does not support the "set" attribute for the ListRecords > > operation. Does anyone know if it does in SPT 1.2.2? If so, it'll be > > good motivation to finally upgrade ;-) > > The current version of SPT does not support sets for OAI, in part > because there didn't seem to be any interest in that functionality when > we initially asked people what they wanted from OAI support a couple of > years ago. What or how were you thinking of using sets? > > Ed > > > P.S. (There are other reasons to upgrade, like a new OAI configuration > interface and support for qualifiers in OAI harvested data. :-)) > > > -- > Edward Almasy ealmasy@scout.wisc.edu > Co-Director 1308 W Dayton > Street > Internet Scout Project Madison WI > 53706 > Computer Sciences Department 608-262-6606 > (voice) > University of Wisconsin - Madison 608-265-9296 > (fax) > > > -- Will Sexton / Metadata Architect * Research & Content Development Perkins Library * Duke University / http://www.duke.edu/~wsexton/ From tajoli at cilea.it Mon Mar 29 09:01:00 2004 From: tajoli at cilea.it (Zeno Tajoli) Date: Mon Mar 29 09:00:51 2004 Subject: [SPTUsers] web site down ? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.0.20040329165905.0246b4e8@mail.cilea.it> Hi to all, I can't connect to home site of scout. I recive: The following error was encountered: Connection Failed The system returned: (111) Connection refused The remote host or network may be down Any problems ? Bye Zeno Tajoli CILEA - Segrate (MI) tajoliAT_SPAM_no_prendiATcilea.it (Indirizzo mascherato anti-spam; sostituisci quanto tra AT con @) From ealmasy at scout.wisc.edu Mon Mar 29 11:28:10 2004 From: ealmasy at scout.wisc.edu (Edward Almasy) Date: Mon Mar 29 11:28:47 2004 Subject: [SPTUsers] web site down ? In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.0.20040329165905.0246b4e8@mail.cilea.it> References: <6.0.3.0.0.20040329165905.0246b4e8@mail.cilea.it> Message-ID: <20040329172810.GE28609@fromage.scout.wisc.edu> On Mon, Mar 29, at 05:01:00PM, Zeno Tajoli wrote: > I can't connect to home site of scout. We've had some hardware issues (we're on our third server in about as many weeks), but everything should now back to normal. Ed -- Edward Almasy ealmasy@scout.wisc.edu Co-Director 1308 W Dayton Street Internet Scout Project Madison WI 53706 Computer Sciences Department 608-262-6606 (voice) University of Wisconsin - Madison 608-265-9296 (fax)