Hi Peter (et al),
I’ve heard the idea of Hydra on DSpace bandied about quite a bit so here are a
few of my thoughts based on a very superficial knowledge of Hydra:-
Hydra is built on Fedora for CRUD functionality and Blacklight for search and
browse. I could well be out of date but as mentioned elsewhere I thought
dspace-rest was read-only?
Crudely put Fedora functions just a container eg. metadata is held in a file
and Fedora takes no interest in the format or content, the same is true of
rights data, all that stuff is taken care of in the Hydra RoR app. DSpace on
the other hand holds this information in its database and provides the UI
functionality to define and update it. So, we would either need to …
1. Abandon that DSpace functionality and store that data in files, making
DSpace a poor imitation of Fedora.
2. Build an extended REST api that covered the likes of defining metadata
and access rights, and extend Hydra to make use of that extended REST api.
3. Something else that I haven’t thought of.
None of these options makes sense to me. DSpace was conceived as a complete
solution and that has been one of its strengths. If it’s time for a more modern
UI then it might be better if it were Java (or a derivative of Java) that could
talk directly to the core api functions without the need of web services. That
having been said a more limited set of web services that allow for CRUD related
to items, and search and browse seems desirable.
Cheers, Robin.
From: Peter Dietz [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 12 February 2013 18:48
To: Tim Donohue
Cc: dspace-devel
Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] Fwd: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code
2013
Perhaps if we had more wood behind fewer arrows. (That's Larry Page speak for
higher quality.)
Call me crazy, but I would like to see (sanity check me please), a Hydra Head
with DSpace as the backend.
This gives us a Ruby on Rails app that is a consumer of our REST API.
Peter Dietz
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Tim Donohue
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 2/12/2013 4:10 AM, helix84 wrote:
> Tim, I don't remember, were we chosen as a mentoring organization in 2012?
Last year (2012), unfortunately DuraSpace just missed the cut. But, we
were a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization from 2007-2010 (as
DSpace Federation) and in 2011 (as DuraSpace).
Last year was the first year we didn't make the cut. At the time we were
told our DuraSpace application was good, but that they decided to let in
some organizations which had never been a part of GSoC (and had to make
some tough decisions based on limited slots). So, there's never any
guarantee that we'll be accepted (even with a good application). But
we're hopeful we'd make the cut this year.
- Tim
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