Configuring importing metadata from external source for EPO and ArXiv

[Carolyn Sullivan]

Hello all,

Have any of you configured the option to import metadata from an external source for the European Patent Office (EPO) or ArXiv?  If yes, have you run into any issues?

My problems:

(1) I can't actually find a DOI to test whether the EPO option works (it's probably not going to be heavily used by our depositors, since we're in Canada, but who knows)

(2) ArXiv keeps failing when we try to look up/import metadata through it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Carolyn.

[DSpace Technical Support]

Hi Carolyn,

Both the EPO and ArXiv search options seem to be working well on the Demo Site (https://demo.dspace.org/), though that is currently running 8.0.   It is always possible that we fixed some bugs here that may be occurring in older releases, so you could look to upgrade to either 7.6.2 or 8.0  (the 7.6.2 release includes a large number of bug fixes backported from 8.0).

You also could use the Troubleshooting guide to see if you can locate the cause of the error (i.e. detailed error message).  It could be that you are hitting an undiscovered bug, in which case the detailed error  message should be reported in a new ticket. https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/Troubleshoot+an+error#Troubleshootanerror-DSpace7.x(orabove)

It is also possible to *disable* any of these import metadata options that you don't want to use.  See the 7.x docs on how to disable an external source.

Tim