Tom,

I have been working lately on hiding items from search results that have READ 
metadata restrictions for certain users.  So for example, item1 is restricted 
to only one particular user, if that user is logged-in and searches for a 
string in that item, he will get the item in the results set, but if an 
anonymous user is logged in and searches for a string in that item, the item 
will not show in the search results.  I am now trying to restrict items like 
this in the browsing,  but am having more difficulty.  It sounds like you may 
have something that restricts items from showing up when browsing.  Is that the 
case?  Could you share the code that does that?

Thank you!
Jose

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From: Tom De Mulder [td...@cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 5:38 AM
To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Embargo and OAI interface

On Fri, 6 May 2011, Richard Rodgers wrote:

> The embargo system is designed to protect bitstreams, not metadata.
>While it certainly would be possible to alter OAI or other code to check
>for embargo dates, this has not been done to the best of my knowledge. I
>am curious why, given that the content will be inaccessible, is it
>desirable to hide the metadata from harvesters?

I'd like to ask for a flag in the dspace config file to let dark items be
properly dark (including embargoed items). This applies to search results
as well as (possibly even more so) to harvesting.

There are several instances where it might be necessary for metadata to be
hidden:

- data protection (if the metadata contains sensitive information)
- commercial interest (e.g. novel discoveries waiting to be exploited)
- academic (e.g. disputed works)
- usability (dark items aren't available, so shouldn't show up)

We've put considerable work in filtering dark items from search results
(which took a lot of work, and yet was still a dirty hack) and OAI. It
would be nice to see this functionality in the main code base.


Best,

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