Please see the page from the old DSpace wiki, preserved in amber here: http://web.mit.edu/lcs/www/lni/ (this page was damaged in the transition to MediaWiki so this old snapshot is the best version and the most complete LNI doc).
It explains the original design philosophy - indeed, SOAP is just a wrapper around the WebDAV interface (and in fact is not recommended). Search is already ably provided by SRW/U and now in 1.6 by OpenSearch, so use those. As for the MP3's, I once wrote a package ingester plugin that accepted an MP3 file as a package, just for a proof of concept. Unfortunately I haven't got that code any moer. It crosswalked the ID3 tags into DC. I'd suggest doing something similar, and adding a record of DSpace Handle to filename to associate with your spreadsheet, and using the 1.6.0 bulk metadata loader to load metadata from the spreadsheet. You can also wrap a package around each MP3 and upload it as, say, a METS package. There are tools on the wiki to help create METS packages. Then you just put the metadata into a dmdSec in the METS manifest, and submit the whole thing by either LNI or SWORD. (SWORD shares a lot of the same problem space as the LNI, worth looking at that too.) good luck -- I'm out of the DSpace game these days so that's about all I have time to say. -- Larry Richard, Joel M wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
