Unit 8 Approaching doneness

Had a four hour session with an IT guy to finally break the back of the DSpace impasse. We did not get it done before I had to split off and work at the health sci library.We have Tomcat installed but it won't run yet. I will restart my VM tomorrow and try to figure out if I can get it up and running, otherwise my IT buddy will help conclude things on Tuesday followed by me initiating DSpace, adding the appropriate new modules and updating posts and posting screenshots in Dropbox this week, 'cuz I won't be making it to TJ or Ft. Lauderdale ~no none of that kinda stuff while I watch my daughter to enable to wife to finish off the dissertation. I'll have a lot more free time once she's accomplished that feat. Unfortunately she'll have her Ph.D. done in time for summer break...

Unit 7 Interesting projects in DSpace
The DuraSpace support site is amazing! There are projects there that look great and seem useful and functional. I liked that DSpace seems to support really graphically rich collections like the Ohio State and the UI for the Internet Archive page turner and image gallery (with completely functional thumbnails, much better than ANYTHING at the AZ Memory Project) as well as handling traditional repository of articles-style collection I'm more familiar with these days. The latter is seen in the SUNScholar Repository themed UI. I would really like to get something like that Ohio State UI Image Gallery set up to show off my collection.
So currently I am stalled at trying to get the successful build with Tomcat, I am tempted to just create yet another VM from scratch to insure that I select the right setting for the Tomcat Java server set up. If I can't get this cracked tonight I'm going to get help at UITS. Again my inability to "see" my directories is a problem.