Hey there fellow Fedora users!
I've been using Fedora for a week or so now and I am trying to
understand what I can and can't do when ingesting files in Fedora.
I wanted to ingest a METS-Fedora-1.1 XML file with the digital object
specifications together with a file to be stored as managed content
under a datastream called IMAGE.
My problem is that I can't get the xlink:href property to point to a
file stored locally in my system, only to a file referenced elsewhere
through http.
<METS:fileGrp ID="DATASTREAMS">
<METS:fileGrp ID="IMAGE" STATUS="A">
<METS:file ID="IMAGE1.0" MIMETYPE="image/gif"
ADMID="TECHNICAL SOURCE RIGHTS" OWNERID="M" STATUS="A">
<METS:FLocat LOCTYPE="URL"
xlink:href="location of my file, stored locally"
xlink:title="template: gif image"/>
</METS:file>
</METS:fileGrp>
</METS:fileGrp>
Since the schema for METS-Fedora-1.1 mentions the file must be pointed
in the xlink:href element, and since the xlink specs say the href
atribute must be a valid URI, i presumed i could define the location of
my file locally using file://location. Turns out Fedora refuses to
ingest the object claiming that file: is an invalid protocol. I've also
tried using a relative URI and simply pointing the absolute location of
the file on my disk. However Fedora just says the URI is malformed when
i try to ingest the object like this.
I know I have the alternative of simply embedding the file in question
in the XML file, but i really wanted to avoid that as i could need to
upload large files to the repository. So my question is: how can i
reference a locally stored file in a METS-Fedora-1.1 xml document?
Thanks for reading, and sorry if the question has a really obvious answer!
Tiago
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