Hi Peter, This should be possible. See:
- http://sword-app.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sword-app/spec/tags/sword-2.0/SWORDProfile.html?revision=377#protocoloperations_editingcontent Rather than having to pass the existing handle, it is related to the URL which you use to update the item. The question though is how this is implemented in DSpace. Richard Jones who wrote the current implementation would be best to answer this, but my recollection is that the default out-the-box implementation is that updates and deletes are only allowed while an item is in the workflow. Once it has passed into the archive, it is locked from further SWORD interaction. One of the manager classes controls this, but I can't remember which and don't have a copy of the code with me at the moment. I hope that helps a little! Thanks, Stuart For our university repository we would like to use Sword for ingesting scientific publication for all our researchers. But we also need a mechanism for updating existing items. It should be as simple as when a DSpace handle is supplied within the metadata of the deposit package it should not create a new handle but it should use the handle supplied within the metadata. Is this functionality already available within Dspace Sword? If not it seems to me just a minor change that would be helpful to many other users of Dspace Sword. Kind regards, Peter van Wonderen VU University Amsterdam -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ sword-app-tech mailing list sword-app-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sword-app-tech
