[Dspace-general] Displaying forms according to content type.

[Andrea Bollini]

Hi Yuri,
for an automatic mapping solution after the submission you can try my
patch:
[ 1595610 ] Automapper plug-in
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1595610&group_id=19984&atid=319984

In the next days I should be able to upload a revised version that use the
consumer models and is ready out-of-box for dspace 1.5. The plugin is
already in use in several production enviroments I need only to extract and
package it.

If you can't wait, you should be able, with few changes, to use also the
actual version.
Best regards,
Andrea

> 
> From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu
> [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Yuri
> Sent: Thursday, 5 March 2009 7:59 a.m.
> To: Graham Triggs
> Cc: dspace-general at mit.edu
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Displaying forms according to content type.
> 
> ...
> Finally, our choice came from the experience told by Paulo Jobim: to
create
> collections related to the content type (books, articles, images, etc)
and
> also collections related to the item's classification (philosophy,
> sociology, anthropology, etc...). So, we won't have to change the code
and
> we're able to create different forms for each collection, that is,
> different forms for different content types, dealing with configurations
> Dspace already provides. The problem is that the item will have to be
> mapped: after inserting it according to its type, it must be mapped to
its
> classification collection. Our next step is to integrate item mapping
into
> the submission process. Any idea?
> 
> Thank you all for the contributions. 
> 
> ***
> 
> Kim's email about SWORD:
> 
>> Hi Yuri,
>>
>> Perhaps SWORD can help -- there are Java and PHP libraries around.
>>
>> I haven't implemented anything yet myself, but this is the path I'm
>> taking
>> to build a submission interface that can handle different forms for
>> different resource types without creating extra clutter in the
>> collection/community hierarchy.
>>
>> There is lots of cool stuff SWORD can do, but rather than list it all,
>> I'll
>> just give you some links: http://www.swordapp.org/ and
>>
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositor<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/SWORD>For
>> sh <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/SWORD>
>>
ies/digirep/index/SWORD<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/SWORD>
>>
>>
>> There is a DSpace SWORD module since 1.4.2 (perhaps earlier?)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Kim
>>
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Graham Triggs <graham at biomedcentral.com>
> wrote:
> 
> Actually, it isn't necessarily that hard (providing you are using 1.5+,
to
> accomodate altering the order of submission steps, and don't mind the
> solution being a bit of a hack).
> 
> The DCInputsReader that drives the metadata forms already has a form
> selector based on the collection-handle.
> 
> In an ideal world, you may extend the DCInputsReader to provide other
> selection mechanisms - but you could just take the path of least
resistance
> locally, and simply change the describe step to pass any arbitrary data
> that you want in place of the collection handle (for example the Mime
type)
> when calling DCInputsReader.getInputs().
> 
> Then, in the input-forms.xml, you would have:
> 
>  <form-map>
>   <name-map collection-handle="default" form-name="traditional" />
>   <name-map collection-handle="audio/mpeg" form-name="mp3" />
>  </form-map>
> 
>  <form-definitions>
> 
>   <form name="traditional">
>     <page number="1">
>       ...
>     </page>
>   </form>
> 
>   <form name="mp3">
>     <page number="1">
>       ...
>     </page>
>   </form>
> 
> G
> 
> 
> 
> On 13/02/2009 13:14, Yuri wrote:
> 
> 	Robin, I think we should have asked before trying to find a way DSpace
> 	inside. =P
> 	Really thank you for your fast answer, Robin.
> 	
> 	Perhaps someone have tried a way of doing it. Anyone? (Even I ask, our
> 	conclusion is that developing this in DSpace is not that easy.)
> 	
> 	Yuri
> 	
> 	On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Robin Taylor <robin.taylor at ed.ac.uk
> 
> 	<mailto:robin.taylor at ed.ac.uk>> wrote:
> 	
> 	   Hi Yuri,
> 	
> 	   Unfortunately Dspace doesn't have a type based submission. The best
> 	   you can do is what you described, have different collections for
> 	   different types. Sorry to not be of more help.
> 	
> 	   Robin.
> 	
> 	   Robin Taylor
> 	   Main Library
> 	   University of Edinburgh
> 	   Tel. 0131 6515208
> 	
> 	    > -----Original Message-----
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> 
> 	    > To: dspace-general at mit.edu <mailto:dspace-general at mit.edu>
> 	    > Subject: [Dspace-general] Displaying forms according to content
> 	    > type.
> 	    >
> 	    > Hi everyone.
> 	    >
> 	    > Let me introduce my self, once I'm new here and I don't know
> 	    > how much formal people are here. ;-)
> 	    >
> 	    > My name is Yuri Gomes Cardenas, I'm brazilian and study in a
> 
> 	    > public university (<www.ufsc.br <http://www.ufsc.br>>) which is
> 
> 	
> 	   located in the
> 	    > south, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina state. I work in a
> 	    > informatics laboratory (where we use, develop and promote
> 	    > free software) of the university and the project I'm engaged
> 	    > now has to do with a digital library with which we aim to
> 	    > give support to teachers of public high schools, of
> 	    > philosophy and sociology disciplines. After some search and
> 	    > attempts, we found DSpace and started learning how this
> 	    > software works.
> 	    >
> 	    > The question is:
> 	    >
> 	    > Does anyone know if DSpace has some native mechanism for
> 	    > displaying the submission forms according to the content
> 	    > type? That is, once I choose a "audio" content type, the next
> 	    > steps should display some set of field (obviously, related to
> 	    > this content type) and if I choose an "article", another set
> 	    > of fields (not necessarily completely different) are
> 	    > displayed. We already know that it's possible to change
> 	    > forms' fields according to Collections, but we do not think
> 	    > this would be the best way of doing that.
> 	    >
> 	    > And I hope my bad written english do not interfere my
> 	    > threads' understanding. =)
> 	    >
> 	    > Thanks in advance.
> 	    >
> 	    > Yuri Gomes Cardenas
> 	    >
> 	    >
> 	
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