[Fez-users] metadata & passwords

[Tony C. <ton...@uc...>]

Hi,

 

I have a few questions that about fez that you may be able to help with. We
have installed fez and fedora on RHEL 4 and it seems to be working fine. We
are interested in Fez and Fedora for at least two IR projects and are at the
stage where we are trying to evaluate how well fez/fedora meets our needs. I
was wondering how to do if anyone could help with the following questions;

 

1.	There seems to be a problem when logging in, if I provide a valid
username with any password it logs the user in (we're not using LDAP at the
moment). Is this a MySQL problem? We're using MySQL 4.1, should we upgrade
to 5.x. Do I need to use the OLD_PASSWORD function in MySQL? If I look at
the users table the passwords seem to be hashed correctly. So it seems like
an authentication problem which I suspect is a MySQL query. 

 

2.	We would like to be able to export the records into Dublin Core. The
export facility that is currently in fez seems to only export them into CSV
format. Do I need to write a PHP script to do this? Has anyone done this or
does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this?

 

3.	We have having problems creating our own fields for metadata, is it
possible to do this? When we create our own "XSD Source" we do not know how
to create an "XSD Displays" to display this. When we go into the "XSD HTML
Matching Editor" we get a blank page with the message "Can't find element
ExperimentalMD  ExperimentalMD XSD Display    Orphaned XSDMF entries (0)".
The cataloguers would like to use MODS or something close to this to input
the metadata, is this possible?

 

4.	Are there any tutorials (or customising guides) available that start
from a novice/beginners level? Changing layout and static HTML content isn't
a problem, but we'd changing field names/labels and add fields, would this
be a problem.

 

Apologies if some of these questions are conceptually incorrect. Thanks a
lot for your help so far.

 

Thanks,

 

Tony.