New MARS look…
Thanks to Dorothea’s skill with a CSS chisel, we have a very new look for our MARS site. We’re now running release 1.3.1 with what I call the “Salo Effect”… Read more »
Category: MARS
Wotsit’s Format?
Just discovered Wotsit’s Format…a website devoted to information on many file formats. From the introduction: Welcome to Wotsit’s Format, the complete programmer’s resource on the net. This site contains file… Read more »
DSpace 1.3 arrives
DSpace 1.3 has been released. Dorothea has installed it on our test/staging server and modifications are being made there. We’ll probably not rush to move it to our production server… Read more »
MARS Wiki up & running
Installed a copy of MediaWiki today (the engine that powers Wikipedia) and with Dorothea’s help, got a MARS wiki up and running. Right now we’re using it to document various… Read more »
Welcome Dorothea
Just a short update to let you know that Dorothea Salo has now joined our MARS project. Dorothea’s email address is dsalo *at* gmu.edu. She’s temporarily based in the Systems… Read more »
Moving a DSpace collection
Found out how you can move a collection from one community to another with just a couple of commands. This came up when we decided to make a sub-community under… Read more »
Deep link to an object on MARS
While the MARS system uses handles to give a persistent address to items in the collection, it is also possible to build a URL that goes directly to the bitstream… Read more »
Tiger Server Upgrade
Now that I managed to upgrade the server hosting the MARS system from 10.3.9 to 10.4 I thought I’d share some notes on the experience…not because they’ll interest very many… Read more »