[Dspace-general] Dspace Output from the OpenDOAR Policy Tool?

[Paul Needham]

Hi Peter

You can simply add a line containing the required XML fragment to
oaicat.properties, e.g.:

Identify.description.0=<description>...policy information ...</description>

It's possible to add up to 10 description blocks:

Identify.description.1=<description>...another description ...</description>
Identify.description.2=<description>...etc ...</description>

You would just need to generate XML from your policy tool, in addition to
HTML and plain text, so that users can paste that in to oaicat.properties.

Regards
Paul A S Needham

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Electronic Information Specialist
Kings Norton Library
Cranfield University
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Subject: [Dspace-general] Dspace Output from the OpenDOAR Policy Tool?

Hi,

OpenDOAR recently released a Policy Tool to promote good practice by
helping repository administrators formulate and/or present their
repository's policies. It provides a simple series of check boxes and
pick lists for all the key policy options, which can be very quickly
selected. The tool and further information are available at:
http://opendoar.org/tools/en/policies.php

Output options include HTML source code and plain text for copying into
web pages and documents. We also have option to output source code for
GNU Eprints OAI configuration files - which include policy data in their
OAI-PMH 'Identify' output - e.g.
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/perl/oai2?verb=Identify

We have received a request to do something similar for DSpace. We could
do with some help on the DSpace technicalities. Can policy information
be included in DSpace OAI-PMH output? Can someone provide me with an
example of the source code that would be required?

Thanks

Peter Millington

SHERPA Technical Development Officer
University of Nottingham, England
0115 8468481 

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