FW: draft Update for Simon

[Anusha Ranganathan]

My apologies, I meant to send this email to the dataflow-devel group.

Please read below about our options for metadata updates using Sword.

 

Regards,

Anusha

 

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From: Anusha Ranganathan
Sent: 16 January 2013 17:38
To: 'Katherine Fletcher'; 'David Shotton'; 'Graham Klyne'; Neil Jefferies
Cc: Bhavana Ananda
Subject: RE: draft Update for Simon

Hello All,

Richard, Bhavana and I just had a skype call to discuss why the metadata update wasn't working and it's not been implemented as yet.

 

We came up with a few options on how to proceed:

 

Option 1 :

For version 1, we say metadata update not available via SWORD (except when the zip file gets unpacked incidentally in DataBank)

[involves no further work]

Option 2:

Always unpack zip file in Databank

[involves some work on DataBank]

Option 3:

Unpack zip file, if I get metadata_relevant = True

[involves some work on DataStage and DataBank]

Option 4:

Send metadata separately. See notes in http://pads.cottagelabs.com/p/dataflow # to update the metadata

[involves more work on DataStage and DataBank (although not much more than Option 3)]

 

Given these options, we thought we would ask for your thoughts on the best way to proceed.

 

Regards,

Anusha

[Dr David Shotton]

Dear Richard,

I have belatedly learned about OfficeSWORD,
http://officesword.codeplex.com/, a Microsoft plugin to enable an MS
Office document to be wrapped in a SWORD wrapper and submitted directly
to a SWORD-compliant repository.

I would be interested to know what you think of this! It does not seem
to have been updated for SWORDv2.

Kind regards,

David

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[Richard Jones]

Hi David,

I wasn't aware of this module specifically, but I did do some work
with Southampton (via the DepositMO project) to build support in
DSpace for deposit from their new Word authoring add-on, which I
wonder if/presume is related. So, there ought to be a SWORDv2
compliant version of something similar lying about the place.

I have some small hopes that this kind of thing is useful in certain
environments, but not quite sure that repositories are close enough to
academics' main concerns to be widely used. Do you have some thoughts
about usage?

Cheers,

Richard

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Founder, Cottage Labs
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