Excellent, thanks a lot Stuart. Gary Browne Development Programmer Library IT Services University of Sydney ph: 9351-5946 Sent from my plain old desktop computer.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Lewis [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, 17 September 2009 12:50 PM > To: Gary Browne > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Two crosswalks outputting oai_dc > > Hi Gary, > > It sounds like you have two options: > > - Get the ADT people to define their own metadataPrefix. > This is what the EThOS project (http://ethos.bl.uk/) did for > the UK EDT system. They defined uketd_dc which is now shipped > as standard with DSpace. See: > http://ethostoolkit.cranfield.ac.uk/tiki-index.php?page_ref_id=69 > > - If however ADT want to use oai_dc, and this is different > to your default oai_dc, then there is no way to support this > using a single DSpace OAI-PMH installation. What you could do > instead is to deploy the dspace-oai webapp multiple times, > with each one pointing at a different oaicat.properties (but > the same dspace.cfg). So you could deploy a second one > dspace-oai-adt which is configured differently but points to > the same actual DSpace instance. > > Thanks, > > > Stuart Lewis > IT Innovations Analyst and Developer > Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library Auckland > Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand > Ph: 64 9 373-7599 x81928 > http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/ > > > > On 17/09/2009, at 2:06 PM, Gary Browne wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm very confused about the whole OAI crosswalk thing. > > > > I've created a new crosswalk class but don't know what > metadataPrefix > > to use. It's for disseminating DC to the Australian Digital Theses > > project, and some of the fields used are different to other DC > > disseminations we want to have setup. I invented a metadataPrefix > > oai_adt but of course there's no schema etc for this so the > ADT people > > have complained ("Will you be changing it to oai_dc?"). The > reason I > > did this is because I want two (or maybe more) different DC > crosswalks > > to exist > > (metadataPrefix=oai_dc) but I couldn't see how to specify which one > > would run without giving them different metadataPrefixes > > (configuration in oaicat.properties). > > > > The crosswalk as it stands with oai_adt as the metadataPrefix (and > > imaginary schema references like > > "http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_adt.xsd";) works, and I can > > easily differentiate it from other crosswalks in oaicat.properties > > using the oai_adt metadataPrefix, but I guess it's kind of > dodgy to do > > that? > > > > Am I making myself clear? I want to know how what I should > do to get > > around this. Do I need to know about CrosswalkPlugins - > I've read the > > wiki but it just made me feel more lost. I hope someone can > bring some > > clarity to this for me. > > > > Thanks a lot. > > Gary > > > > > > Gary Browne > > Development Programmer > > Library IT Services > > University of Sydney > > ph: 9351-5946 > > Sent from my plain old desktop computer. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer > Conference > > in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. > > Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile > applications > > to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from > November 9-12, > > 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > > _______________________________________________ > > DSpace-tech mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
