I have some questions about the Embargo plugin in 1.6. I'm basing this on http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Embargo_1.6 and trolling through the subversion repository (dspace-1.6.0-rc1 tag).
We'd like to have an drop-down box in our self-deposit which allows users to select an embargo period (probably 3, 6, 12, 18 or 24 months). This then gets put in the metadata field pointed to by embargo.field.terms (probably 'VUW.embargo'), and the date of uplift calculated and stored in that pointed to by embargo.field.lift (probably 'available'). The DefaultEmbargoSetter automatically sets the default permissions so that while the item metadata for an embargoed item is globally readable, the bitstreams are inaccessible to everyone but admins. [This could be overridden to a less strict lockdown by overriding the setEmbargo method, we havent' thrashed this out yet] DefaultEmbargoSetter also calculates the embargo.field.lift date, from the embargo.field.terms and the current time/date. Once a day the EmbargoManager runs and uplifts items whose embargo has expired. Uplifting involves setting the permissions to whatever the default permissions are for the collection it's in, making item's bitstreams public. My questions are: [1] Does the above sound sane? [2] Is there any way to generate notifications of lifting? The easiest thing I can see would be to do a search for the embargo.field.terms field, sorting on the availability, and supply that as an RSS feed. [3] We're considering how to direct users to other sources for the item when it's currently embargoed. This would probably be involve displaying a block of text which might be inviting them to login and giving them alternative access routes to the item. Has anyone done this? [4] In the wiki at http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Embargo_1.6, if I am reading things correctly, the second to last option in the config file snippet is missing the relevant default option and the last option has it truncated. Am I reading it correctly? Due to my technical skills, I'd prefer options that involve XSLT to those involving Java :) cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
