All, I'm playing around with the OAI Harvesting functionality (DS-289), in particular creating a Collection that harvests its items from an external OAI-PMH interface.
It all seems to work wonderfully, however I'm concerned about the lack of visible "provenance" information for harvested items. Harvested items are in a "harvested_item" lookup table in the database, but in the DSpace UI they look identical to normal items. In other words, there is no discernible way (that I can find) for a DSpace Administrator to know from the UI if an item has been harvested from another location. One way to let a DSpace Administrator know where this item came from is to record some basic human-readable text in the "dc.description.provenance" field (similar to how we record submitter info in that field for normal item). (Side note: I realize that 'dc.description.provenance' is not the best way to store our provenance metadata longterm. But, that's a much larger discussion we need to have after 1.6) I'm wondering if at a bare minimum we should change the OAI Harvester to enter in a 'dc.description.provenance' line for Harvested Items that says something similar to: "Item harvested via OAI from [original location] on [date]". This would at least give DSpace Administrators a better understanding of the provenance of this item. I'd like to propose making this small change in 1.6.0, so that we at least capture some minimal provenance for these harvested items. Does anyone have any objections to this minor change? Or other comments about this proposal? - Tim -- Tim Donohue Technical Lead for DSpace Project DuraSpace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
