Hi Joseph, > I am developing an archive for an archaeology lab where some of the items > are deemed "sensitive" by the collection owner. (Usually if they contain > pictures of human remains or artifacts involved in burial ceremonies.) > > It is usually very clear in the metadata if an item should be declared > "sensitive". > I'm looking for someplace to insert a boolean check that would then change > the item policies such that only members of the "Sensitive Data Viewer" group > could see the item.
We do this using the 'curation' system which was introduced in DSpace 1.7. See: - http://www.dspace.org/1_7_1Documentation/Curation%20System.html This allows you to write classes that can perform tests and make changes to applicable items (their metadata / permissions / bitstreams etc). They can either be run automatically at certain points such as during the workflow, by hand in the XMLUI interface, or as a scheduled cron job. We have a lot of quite specialised curation tasks to perform jobs such as changing bitstream authorizations, making derivative bitstreams, and enhancing metadata. There were some good sessions about this at the recent Open Repositories conference: - https://conferences.tdl.org/or/OR2011/OR2011main/paper/viewFile/431/102 - https://www.facebook.com/notes/mire/curation-tasks-in-dspace-an-open-repositories-2011-workshop-report/10150208313003768 Thanks, Stuart Lewis Digital Development Manager Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand Ph: +64 (0)9 373 7599 x81928 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
