Good morning, The purpose of this message is to determine if my investigations have yielded accurate information.
I have been poking at the WebDAV and SOAP interfaces in the LNI for DSpace. I am pleased to see that DSpace has some ability to play with others, but I think these interfaces are too limited for what I am trying to do. First, the SOAP interface seems to be a layer on top of WebDAV and it simply implements much of the same calls. If this is the case, I'm a bit disappointed. I was hoping that the SOAP interface would allow me to, say, search a collection for a particular set of criteria on, say, the Abstract or Author of an article. Am I correct in my assumption that this can't be done through SOAP? If this is the case, then I don't understand what use it is in uploading content into DSpace via DAV in that much of the meta data that goes along with a file can't be sent up through DAV. To summarize, I have an XLS spreadsheet and about 1200 MP3 files (representing 600 items) that need to be brought into DSpace and doing this by hand is not something we wish to seriously consider. :) If we can mass-upload via DAV then we will still need to go back and add authors, descriptions, abstracts, etc by hand, right? Any suggestions? :) Thanks, --Joel Joel Richard IT Specialist, Web Services Department Smithsonian Institution Libraries | http://www.sil.si.edu/ (202) 633-1706 | (202) 786-2861 (f) | [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
