Dorothea Salo wrote: > How much of what the various ingest interfaces do is and isn't covered > in SWORD? Would it be worthwhile to write against that rather than > (re-)rolling our own?
Just to pipe in briefly on SWORD: I've been messing around with SWORD quite a bit recently. It's a nice initial protocol, but it's purposefully and obviously very generic when it comes to the repository software. So, SWORD actually doesn't require a particular metadata schema or anything. It *recommends* that you send metadata in EPrints DC XML, but doesn't even enforce that: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Eprints_DC_XML Now, obviously that's the purpose of a protocol like SWORD, to be generic and not force anything too specific. But, that means that in order to implement any *DSpace-specific* ingest features we'd have to build a more complex SWORD Client which could pass that extra info along to a SWORD Server which understands it. Currently, DSpace 1.5 SWORD Server just provides the basic generic SWORD functionality (and maps the Eprints DC XML to underlying DSpace "qualified" Dublin Core). It's definitely possible to make the SWORD Server process DSpace-specific information, but it would also require that the SWORD Client (whatever is sending the SWORD request) also *knows* to send that extra info. Not sure if all of that makes sense (I'm trying not to get too overly technical here). But, essentially, it would be possible to begin writing ingest interfaces using SWORD. However, if we ever got *specific* to DSpace software, we'd likely also need to write a SWORD Client which sends extra info *specific* to DSpace software. I'd agree this is still probably a better route than "re-rolling our own", but it's still not necessarily an easy/quick task :) That's just my 2 cents. I'll also admit I'm still not quite a SWORD expert, but I'm sure someone will correct me if anything I've said is inaccurate :) - Tim -- Tim Donohue Research Programmer, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (217) 333-4648 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
