The SRW/SRU interface for DSpace provides a rich SOAP based searching interface.
Ralph > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard, Joel M [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 11:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Dspace-general] SOAP and WebDAV > > Good morning, > > The purpose of this message is to determine if my investigations have yielded > accurate information. > > I have been poking at the WebDAV and SOAP interfaces in the LNI for DSpace. > I am pleased to see that DSpace has some ability to play with others, but I think > these interfaces are too limited for what I am trying to do. > > First, the SOAP interface seems to be a layer on top of WebDAV and it simply > implements much of the same calls. If this is the case, I'm a bit disappointed. I > was hoping that the SOAP interface would allow me to, say, search a collection > for a particular set of criteria on, say, the Abstract or Author of an article. Am I > correct in my assumption that this can't be done through SOAP? > > If this is the case, then I don't understand what use it is in uploading content into > DSpace via DAV in that much of the meta data that goes along with a file can't > be sent up through DAV. > > To summarize, I have an XLS spreadsheet and about 1200 MP3 files > (representing 600 items) that need to be brought into DSpace and doing this by > hand is not something we wish to seriously consider. :) If we can mass-upload > via DAV then we will still need to go back and add authors, descriptions, > abstracts, etc by hand, right? > > Any suggestions? :) > > Thanks, > --Joel > > Joel Richard > IT Specialist, Web Services Department > Smithsonian Institution Libraries | http://www.sil.si.edu/ > (202) 633-1706 | (202) 786-2861 (f) | [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
