On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Alain Tschanz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can I prevent another DSpace repository from harvesting metadata and
> bitstreams? Or put another way, can I limit harvesting of collections to
> metadata and references to bitstreams only?

Hi Alain,

certainly, by removing READ access for the Anonymous to a bitstream,
there's no way how you can download it without authenticating.

If you want to keep READ Anonymous access though, there's nothing
DSpace can do. But you could configure the firewall to block sites
that you don't want to harvest you. It's hard to imagine another
practical way how you would distinguish between humans and spiders
downloading the bitstreams (detecting User Agent string, perhaps, but
that can be easily faked).


Regards,
~~helix84

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