Hello Tibor,
Thank you for your help.
Kind regards
Thomas Mizanowski
From: Tibor Simko
Posted: 17/09/2013 14:29
Subject: Usage of 'elmsubmit' module
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello, the information at:
> http://invenio-demo.cern.ch/help/admin/elmsubmit-admin-guide is
> empty. Can I please ask if the elmsubmit module works by:
Indeed, the ElmSubmit module is not being used much anymore. Its main
use case was very close to what you described under a). Notably, there
is an email address where people can send documents via email. This
email address is usually forwarded to procmail and in the procmail you
have a set of rules defined that specify what to do with incoming
messages. Basically, elmsubmit CLI would be invoked, which would then
read the incoming message and would prepare a new record with metadata
based on the information contained in the message, and it would then
submit it for an upload to the Invenio instance. It does not
necessarily have to archive incoming email as such; it can read the
information the email contains and submit message attachments. So
people could forward PDF of their thesis to this email address instead
of uploading the thesis via web, say. An example ElmSubmit
configuration can be seen at:
<http://invenio-software.org/repo/invenio/tree/modules/elmsubmit/etc/elmsubmit.cfg.in?h=maint-1.1>
> Also, is the email retained in original format able to be opened by
> the email software that received the email in a directory that is part
> of the invenio installation?
If you think about the preservation purposes, then this would seem to be
a job for the BibIngest module that tries to preserve all inputs in the
OAIS-inspired way:
<http://invenio-software.org/wiki/Development/Modules/BibIngest>
BibIngest is not released yet though.
Best regards
--
Tibor Simko
> Hello, the information at:
> http://invenio-demo.cern.ch/help/admin/elmsubmit-admin-guide is
> empty. Can I please ask if the elmsubmit module works by:
Indeed, the ElmSubmit module is not being used much anymore. Its main
use case was very close to what you described under a). Notably, there
is an email address where people can send documents via email. This
email address is usually forwarded to procmail and in the procmail you
have a set of rules defined that specify what to do with incoming
messages. Basically, elmsubmit CLI would be invoked, which would then
read the incoming message and would prepare a new record with metadata
based on the information contained in the message, and it would then
submit it for an upload to the Invenio instance. It does not
necessarily have to archive incoming email as such; it can read the
information the email contains and submit message attachments. So
people could forward PDF of their thesis to this email address instead
of uploading the thesis via web, say. An example ElmSubmit
configuration can be seen at:
<http://invenio-software.org/repo/invenio/tree/modules/elmsubmit/etc/elmsubmit.cfg.in?h=maint-1.1>
> Also, is the email retained in original format able to be opened by
> the email software that received the email in a directory that is part
> of the invenio installation?
If you think about the preservation purposes, then this would seem to be
a job for the BibIngest module that tries to preserve all inputs in the
OAIS-inspired way:
<http://invenio-software.org/wiki/Development/Modules/BibIngest>
BibIngest is not released yet though.
Best regards
--
Tibor Simko
