[Dspace-tech] Re: [Dspace-general] metadata questions

[Gerson Galang]

Hi MacKenzie,

We are in no rush to get the web services functionality of DSpace
working with our project. We are still currently looking into how we can
get all of the functionalities that we need from all the other different
extensions of DSpace integrated. But it's still good to know that most
of the features that we require from DSpace is either on the way or have
already been implemented. Please drop us a line on the mailing list once
the WS interface that CARET has developed is already available for download.

Cheers,
Gerson

MacKenzie Smith wrote:
> We (actually CARET at Cambridge) are working on some new Web Services 
> for DSpace that might help,
> including deposit, retrieval and search (building on that earlier SRW 
> service from OCLC).
> You'd need to write the desktop application to do the data transfer and 
> prompt for the metadata and license info,
> but it sounds like you're going to need that anyway.
> The Web Services should be ready pretty soon, and can be made available 
> to the intrepid right away.
> 
> MacKenzie
> 
>> > What we are planning to automate is the uploading of data files that
>> > researchers here in South Australia have generated. These data files
>> > might just be sitting in researchers desktop machine (or somewhere 
>> else)
>> > and it would be good if they can just automate the upload of these 
>> files
>> > by inputting the location of these files from the command line or the
>> > web interface instead of uploading the files one by one from the web
>> > browser.
>>
>> I don't know of anything that does this, but it shouldn't be too
>> difficult to write.
>> > >>Are there any plans for DSpace to support other metadata schemas? Has
>> > >>anybody written a Java API for DSpace which we can use if ever we 
>> decide
>> > >>to write an application which will communicate with the server?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >DSpace has a Java API that can be used locally, where 'locally' in 
>> this
>> > >context means that you can get a direct connection to the db and 
>> access
>> > >to the storage filesystem (which could be achieved through NFS as 
>> far as
>> > >I know). Are you specifically referring to a remote API?
>> >
>> > At the moment, we are only looking at doing all of these things locally
>> > but it will help us a lot in making a decision of using dspace if there
>> > are plans of providing a web interface for it. Are there any 
>> timeline on
>> > when this functionality will be available for DSpace?
>>
>> It hasn't appeared on the roadmap so far. If it's useful to you, the
>> best course of action is to describe the functionality you want as a
>> feature request on the sourceforge site
>> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace) and maybe also on the roadmap
>> page on the wiki (http://wiki.dspace.org/RoadMap).
>>
>> I have heard of a couple of initiatives to provide WS interfaces to
>> DSpace, which might make the sort of functionality you're describing
>> easier to implement.
>>
>> > Is DSpace also
>> > going to have an SRW query interface in the future? If not, what query
>> > interface are you planning to provide?
>>
>> OCLC have built an SRW interface to DSpace: -
>>
>> http://pubserv.oclc.org/srw/Installation.html
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