December 19th, 2011 by Martin Boosen
As the last days of 2011 are passing by quickly, we would like to take a brief look back at this year’s migration progress.
Lots of things have changed since we managed to complete the migration of the first institutes by moving them, one by one, from eDoc to PubMan in a long and sometimes improvised process.
Some of you may have noticed that we have already adapted this process and we now have fixed time slots reserved for the simultaneous migration of several institutes.
In 2011, there were three of those time slots and so we were able to significantly increase the number of institutes working on PubMan. Having only three MPIs at the beginning of 2011, we now can proudly present no less than eighteen institutes that have successfully completed their data migration.
And here are this year’s new PubMan users:
* MPI for Biophysical Chemistry
* Fritz-Haber-Institute
* MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
* MPI for Comparative and International Private Law
* MPI for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law
(successor institutes: MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance, MPI for Intellectual Property and Competition Law)
* MPI for Social Anthropology
* MPI for Astrophysics
* MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics
* MPI for Nuclear Physics
* MPI for European Legal History (Data not yet released)
* MPI for Meteorology
* MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Data not yet released)
* MPI of Neurobiology
* MPI for Plant Breeding Research
* MPI for the Study of Societies (Data not yet released)
A huge thank you goes to all of the colleagues at the institutes who invested plenty of time and effort during the migration process.
Once again: Welcome to the PubMan community!
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November 10th, 2011 by kleinfe
We are very happy to announce that PubMan is up and running!
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November 10th, 2011 by kleinfe
Dear PubMan users, unfortunatly most of our servers are down due to massive problems at our hosting company. We will inform you as soon as PubMan is available again.
We are very sorry for the inconviniences.
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October 19th, 2011 by kleinfe
As some of you might have noticed we consistently had problems with the BioMed central Import (Thanks to all who reported problems). As it turned out the problem was not on PubMan site, but due to a bug in the BioMed central interface.
This bug is fixed now! So the biggest part of our problem is solved. During our contact with BioMed we learned that some articles which are available on the homepage are not yet ready for import, so there are still some articles which will fail to import in PubMan. You can easily recognize these articles by the link Provisional PDF contrary to Full Text (where it is possible to import the article).
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September 30th, 2011 by franke
One thing I owe to the community since the PubMan Days is the explanation how publication lists that are exported by the Search&Export service can be sorted by more than one index field.
The use case for this is the integration of sorted publication lists into an institute’s homepage. As an example, a desired sorting can be
1) by author’s name (ascending)
2) by publication date (descending)
The problem is that the Search&Export example form only provides two form fields for sorting, “Sorting Key” and “Sorting Order”
So obviously you can put in a sorting key (one of these) and the according sort order, ascending or descending. This results in a query like this:
- CQL search query: escidoc.objecttype=”item” and escidoc.any-organization-pids=”escidoc:578627″ and escidoc.content-model.objid=”escidoc:persistent4″ (as an example we use a query for a department’s publications)
- Sorting Key: sort.escidoc.publication.creator.person.compound. person-complete-name
- Sorting Order: ascending
makes
http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/search/SearchAndExport?cqlQuery=escidoc.objecttype%3D”item”+ and+escidoc.any-organization-pids%3D”escidoc:578627″+and+escidoc.content-model.objid%3D”escidoc:persistent4″&exportFormat=APA&outputFormat=escidoc_snippet&sortKeys=sort.escidoc.publication.creator.person.complete-name&sortOrder=ascending&startRecord=1&maximumRecords=50
But there is more to it!
The sorting key field can also be used for multiple keys. As obviously the second field (sorting order) only allows one value (either “ascending” or “descending”) it is useless for multiple keys. So this field should remain “ascending” and all information has to go into the sorting keys field. This is done in the SRU 1.1 standard format. It defines that a sorting parameter consists of up to 5 values, separated by comma: field name, schema, sort order, case sensitivity, missing value policy.
- Field name: one of those mentioned above
- Schema: PubMan doesn’t use any index schemas so the second argument is empty
- Sort order: 1 for ascending, 0 for descending
- Case sensitivity: 1 for case-sensitive searches, 0 when cases don’t matter
- Missing value policy: should be omitted (actually I have to check if we implement that)
In that syntax, the example from above would look like this:
- Sorting Key: sort.escidoc.publication.creator.person.compound. person-complete-name,,1
- Sorting Order: ascending
makes
Another sorting key can be appended separated by a space. Let’s secondarily descend the results by the year of publication:
- Sorting Key: sort.escidoc.publication.creator.person.compound. person-complete-name,,1 sort.escidoc.publication.compound. most-recent-date,,0
- Sorting Order: ascending
makes
http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/search/SearchAndExport?cqlQuery=escidoc.objecttype%3D”item”+and+escidoc.any-organization-pids%3D”escidoc:578627″+and+escidoc.content-model.objid%3D”escidoc:persistent4″&exportFormat=APA&outputFormat=escidoc_snippet&sortKeys=sort.escidoc.publication.creator.person.compound.person-complete-name,,1+sort.escidoc.publication.compound.most-recent-date,,0&sortOrder=ascending&startRecord=1&maximumRecords=50
There you are! This can of course be extended infinitely.
Best,
Michael Franke
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September 26th, 2011 by wuchner
PubMan Days 2011 took place at Harnack Haus, Berlin on 7th and 8th September 2011. We were delighted to welcome about 75 participants this year. The big topic of this year’s event was the integration of PubMan data and full texts into external websites. The agenda and the PowerPoint presentations can be found here.
Wednesday
Wednesday was dedicated to the PubMan users within the Max Planck Society. We started with a two hour user meeting. We constructively discussed topics concerning the future development of the PubMan repository. Thanks to our users for sharing your opinions, requirements and ideas with us. And a special thank you to our dear colleague Andrea Kulas for moderating and documenting the discussion.
At the same time our developer Michael Franke ran a hands-on workshop addressed to developers and technically responsible persons. The topic was the integration of PubMan data into institutional or individual websites. Many thanks to Dirk Wintergrün at the MPI for the History of Science for providing a room for this workshop.
In the afternoon the official part of the PubMan Days began. After an opening speech by Malte Dreyer, head of the department of “Development and Research” at the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) we heard three reports on migration to the PubMan repository. Patrick Daly from the MPI for Solar System Research reported about migration from BibTeX. Silvia Kortüm and Douglas Bahiense told us about migration of the legal institutes within the project Jus CMS. For connecting the institute’s content management system with PubMan a new proprietary interface was created. Karina Näthe and Roberto Cozatl from MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain sciences spoke about migration and integration of PubMan items into the institute’s homepage.
After a short coffee break Juliane Müller, repository manager of PubMan, presented several examples of PubMan integration and Michael Franke explained the technical requirements for PubMan. Ute Rusnak of the Fachinformationszentrum (FIZ) Karlsruhe introduced two PubMan Instances of the Leibniz Association. In the evening we had a cosy get-together with our participants at the Biergarten Louise.
Thursday
Thursday was dedicated to non-MPG organizations being interested in and using PubMan. After a welcome speech by Malte Dreyer and Juliane Müller we heard about two PubMan installations by Luis Zorita from UNED in Spain and Anders Conrad from the Royal Library of Denmark. After a coffee break Dr. Neil Jacobs, program director of JISC UK, enriched our event with a keynote on “The web as platform for scientific communication”. Special thanks to Dr. Neil Jacobs for his contribution.
After lunch the big topic was the current state of PubMan. Andrea Wuchner and Martin Boosen from Service Management of the MPDL presented a walkthrough of the current PubMan version. Diana Mewes from MPI for Chemical Ecology presented their example of system integration.
Being strengthened from coffee Michael Franke told us about search&export options in PubMan and about the CoNE Service. Finally Juliane Müller spoke about how to prepare an organization for the switch to PubMan.
We would like to thank all national and international speakers for participating the PubMan Days 2011 and sharing their inspiring contributions with us. Furthermore we want to thank all our participants for your interest in PubMan. We hope to see you again next year.
Your PubMan Team
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July 29th, 2011 by Martin Boosen
Because of the far reaching implications caused by the creator role problem which occurred since the latest PubMan release, we decided to rapidly implement an appropriate hotfix solution.
The modifications have just been implemented within the productive server.
All changes with regard to the role of the creator (or the source creator) should be adopted again as usual. This means there no longer is the danger of any unintended modifications while saving/submitting/releasing an item.
Thanks again to Mr. Vogt of the MPIK for pointing out this critical bug to us so quickly!
We would like to apologize for this serious error which surely caused some annoying interference to your work.
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July 26th, 2011 by Martin Boosen
We would like to draw your attention to a certain dysfunction that affects the submission within the current PubMan version.
Please note that currently, the creator role of all persons is automatically set to “Author” when saving/submitting/releasing an item. For organizations the creator role is set to “Editor”.
This problem affects both, the publication creator(s) and the source creator(s).
So please be aware that you might unintentionally change the metadata of an existing item when you perform any changes.
For newly created items you just don’t have the option to select any other creator role than the ones mentioned above.
We are aware that this is an urgent issue and we are planning to take care of it in connection with the next Bugfix release.
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July 22nd, 2011 by Martin Boosen
We took the opportunity of the past downtime to deploy the latest version of PubMan on our productive server. The Bugfix Release PubMan 6.3 includes some minor innovations, which we’d happily like to draw attention to.
We managed to fix several problems that occurred within some of the latest generations of browsers (e.g. Firefox 4/5, Internet Explorer 9):
* The CoNE autosuggest lists should now be working reliably in the submission mask as well as in the advanced search.
* Recently, the details within the import workspace can be accessed using the latest Firefox versions.
* The dropdown field for collections within the advanced search used to be cut up in Internet Explorer. This problem has been solved as well.
There are two modifications within the detailed search mask:
* Users now can search for all of their items that have a file attached and for all items that are fitted with a locator. Previously, we only had the option to select all items with a file or a locator, or all items with a file but without any locator.
* The dropdown field for collection searches right on top of the mask caused some irritations. Because of that, we moved this field to the bottom of the page. Above that, it is now possible to duplicate this field for simultaneous searches within several collections.
“Meeting Abstract” is a new genre that has been urgently required by the MPI CBS.
Identifiers in the dropdown list of the submission mask are now arranged alphabetically.
The preselected creator role for organizations now is “editor”.
We integrated a “cancel” button in the easy submission. This should provide a more comfortable opportunity to abort the submission process.
Due to several requests, we changed the appearance of the affiliations within the CoNE researcher portfolio. As long as the user isn’t logged in or the affiliations don’t have specific date informations, all existing organizations will simply be listed as “position”. Otherwise, there will be a distinction between “former” and “current position”.
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July 19th, 2011 by Martin Boosen
In consideration of the continuously growing amount of data within PubMan, we need to expand our storage devices.
That’s why the GWDG is going to install new hardware components on the upcoming Friday, July 22nd, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. (CET)
During the installation, PubMan has to be shut down and all services won’t be available for one hour maximum.
We apologize for any inconveniences.
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