On Feb 14, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Richard Jones wrote:

> 1 - In Sections 3.3 and 3.4 there is specified an atom:generator  
> element
> for the deposit response.  This entry requires a URI defining the
> software which generated the response, and I'm unsure as to what the
> best thing to put in that field is.  The options are:
>
> a) The URI of the instance of DSpace which generated the response  
> (i.e.
> the actual repository)
> b) Some generic DSpace URI such as http://www.dspace.org/sword-app
> c) The URI to the sourceforge svn for the code for the dspace-sword  
> module
> Anyone have opinions on this?

What is the use-case for who would act on this information?  My gut  
says option B (maybe for the use-case of an app replicating items  
across a heterogeneous repository environment?) though this wouldn't  
provide any versioning information outside of "DSpace", which may not  
be sufficient?  So with the lack of a use case, I lean toward B and  
then A.  (I don't suppose we have a read on how the Fedora folks or  
others are handling this?)

> 2 - During development I've noticed that application/zip is not a
> default bitstream format in the bitstream format registry.  Is this
> deliberate or an oversight?  As it happens, it would make a SWORD
> interface behave much more sensibly if this is available in the format
> registry (otherwise the application has difficulty in identifying zip
> files when they are re-exposed via the interface).  Can we add this to
> the default bitstream registry, or is there some subtle problem  
> which I
> have not taken into account?

I would guess a bias against application/zip from a preservation  
standpoint due to the fact that it's a shell container.  Seems like  
individual repo admins could add this format if their policies didn't  
care about accepting containers.


-sf

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