[Dspace-general] REST API implementation

[Ann M. Lally]

Does anyone know of a site that is using the REST API as an alternative to the DSpace interface?  And if so, could you provide a link to the site?

 

Thanks all!

 

Ann Lally

[helix84]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Ann M. Lally <ala...@uw.edu> wrote:

Does anyone know of a site that is using the REST API as an alternative to the DSpace interface?  And if so, could you provide a link to the site?

Hi Ann, you can try the DSpace demo site:

https://demo.dspace.org/rest/

Never mind the self-signed certificate.

Regards,
~~helix84

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[Peter Dietz]

Hi Ann,

The best example would be JORUM http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

I don't have all the details on that, but my understanding is that it is connected to a DSpace repository through REST API's. 

You can see a little bit of DSpace style of information "leaking" by clicking "Show the full Jorum record" at http://find.jorum.ac.uk/resources/10949/20105

Here are two sample apps that use the DSpace REST API to interact with DSpace.

Using Ruby on Rails:

https://github.com/peterdietz/dspace-rest-rails

(Source Code) http://dspace-rest-client-play.herokuapp.com

Using Java Play! framework.

http://dspace-rails.herokuapp.com/communities

(Source Code) https://github.com/peterdietz/dspace-rest-play

And then there is a project at UFPR Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil), to build an open courses site. I'm assuming they are storing courses in DSpace, and then have built an application that allows you to see course materials for various courses/departments/classes. They have video of lecture capture in there (Portuguese). And to my knowledge its just querying DSpace to do it all.

http://cursosabertos.c3sl.ufpr.br/

http://cursosabertos.c3sl.ufpr.br/setores/10

http://cursosabertos.c3sl.ufpr.br/aulas/113

Another usage that I've heard about is a University that has students submit their student thesis to the university gradebook system, and then at the end of the semester, uses the DSpace REST API to push all that material into the repository.

Longsight is also in the process of developing an application / site with a client that will be powered by DSpace REST. In that case, we would think of DSpace as just being a repository layer. It provides mechanisms for ingest, and then gives you a service layer (REST API), that you query to get/put metadata and files. And you can build whatever you want in the web-app-framework.

A non-REST-api integration is OAI-PMH. For example, we manage a DSpace repository that holds the content that is then regularly harvested by OAI, and then populates the Drupal site. Going forward, that project will rewrite to use DSpace REST to continue the integration.

(repository) https://hpsrepository.asu.edu/handle/10776/8557

(drupal) http://embryo.asu.edu/pages/friedrich-tiedemann-1781-1861

(project home) http://embryo.asu.edu/

Do these examples help?

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Longsight
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[Jason Roy]

Chad,

Fyi and sharing (something for the back burner.)

-Jason

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[Ann M. Lally]

This is exactly what I was looking for.  Thank you so much Peter.

Ann Lally

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