Re: [Dspace-devel] Picasa Web Uploader
Peter, The ability to import from a remote source such as picasa or through adobe bridge could be pretty useful. Kind of like the way an ORE harvester works. I think you may be talking about the Web Albums Data API. Using that there would be a bit of duplication, unless you were harvesting something already published (as above). The picasa Button api (and Picasa Web Uploader API) I was pointing out interacts with the desktop program, it's separate from the webalbumsAPI. Here's an entry from their FAQ to clarify What is the difference between the Picasa Button API and the Picasa Web Albums GData API? The Picasa Button API http://code.google.com/apis/picasa (along with the Picasa Web Uploader API) is used to make custom buttons that can be embeded in the Picasa client UI and can be used to export images from the client to another desktop application or web site. The Picasa Web Albums Data API http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb is used to send and receive images and meta-data with the Picasa Web Albums web site http://picasaweb.google.com/. You can use these APIs to integrate your application or web site with either the Picasa client, the Picasa Web Albums web site, or both! I was envisioning someone working on their desktop with a collection of images, and then wanting to post them as a collection to DSpace. Basically this would either pass the files to an external handling application (on the same machine) or by creating a temporary host (as with the Picasa Web Uploader API), that a script on the DSpace Archive would then be able to ingest. I mention Picasa because it's free and the apis are available. Another similar idea would be an Adobe Lightbox plugin. -Joseph On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 15:06, Peter Dietz pdiet...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, First off, I do agree that picasa is an awesome tool. I use it all the time for personal use. And syncing photos to your web gallery is super easy. Second, the picasaweb API is super easy to use, to re-purpose your photos, i.e. https://github.com/Cloudhaus/RailHaus/blob/master/app/views/events/show.html.erb However, I'm stumbling into a blank for what to do next with picasaweb, and then to DSpace. Maybe you could build an app for sword, that will let you specify a picasaweb gallery to mirror/migrate into your DSpace, and then have sword do the submission. Or, like a collection in DSpace, you can specify the content source as being a picasaweb gallery to fetch the content, and import into DSpace. However, once the import is successful, it shouldn't really try to poll for updates to the gallery. Another possibility would be to add a step to configurable-submission, where you can specify remote source and have it fetch a bunch of images during a submission. This might import the gallery as as multiple bitstreams in one item. I attended a conference at OCLC today, where the Dryad project was demonstrated, and they could specify a content source, and enter a unique ID for the article (doi), and then it will go fetch the paper. I think @mire was contracted to build that. Additionally, I'm sure someone, somewhere is foaming at the mouth thinking curation task. Another, most likely more complicated approach would be to look at Adobe's latest offering. http://www.adobe.com/products/adobedrive/ If one were to make DSpace CMIS compatible, you can have user upload directly to DSpace from Adobe Bridge. That sounds like it might meet people where they're working in the digitization workflow. Sorry, that sounds like a big long brain dump. Peter Dietz On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Vibhaj Rajan vibhaj.rajan.cs...@itbhu.ac.in wrote: Hi Joseph, I also took the word deprecated to mean something developers usually take but from your notice, I agree that use of the API would be fine. Thanks for the wonderful idea about uploading from Picasa. Though I am not among the DSpace developers but only another student interested to contribute to DSpace, I thank you for your will to help DSpace improve. Hope the topic receives the attention of the developers at DSpace. Regards, On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Joseph joseph.rho...@gmail.com wrote: Good Point Vibhaj. I noticed that it was deprecated, but the following disclaimer was on the project home page ( http://code.google.com/apis/picasa/) Note: The Picasa APIs will continue to function in existing and future versions of the Picasa client for the foreseeable future. However, these APIs are being marked as deprecated to reflect that they're no longer undergoing active development and experimentation, which is the hallmark of APIs in the Code Labs program. I read it as meaning that they're not adding anything to it, but that it's not necessarily going anywhere. Not what I usually think of when someone mentions deprecated, but it seams reassuring in this case. I could be wrong. I think it would be a nice addition to be able to submit from Picasa. Its
Re: [Dspace-devel] Picasa Web Uploader
Sorry for my ignorance, I had no idea about the picasaButtonAPI. I definitely was only thinking webalbumsAPI. Very cool! Ok, so now the path (according to my interpretation) would be: picasaButton Import to DSpace - Picasa Web Uploader Wizard/Dialog - Sword Ingest into repo/collection. This sounds like it could be a fun project. I noticed that Google provided some sample code in PHP too. Peter Dietz On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Joseph joseph.rho...@gmail.com wrote: Peter, The ability to import from a remote source such as picasa or through adobe bridge could be pretty useful. Kind of like the way an ORE harvester works. I think you may be talking about the Web Albums Data API. Using that there would be a bit of duplication, unless you were harvesting something already published (as above). The picasa Button api (and Picasa Web Uploader API) I was pointing out interacts with the desktop program, it's separate from the webalbumsAPI. Here's an entry from their FAQ to clarify What is the difference between the Picasa Button API and the Picasa Web Albums GData API? The Picasa Button API http://code.google.com/apis/picasa (along with the Picasa Web Uploader API) is used to make custom buttons that can be embeded in the Picasa client UI and can be used to export images from the client to another desktop application or web site. The Picasa Web Albums Data API http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb is used to send and receive images and meta-data with the Picasa Web Albums web site http://picasaweb.google.com/. You can use these APIs to integrate your application or web site with either the Picasa client, the Picasa Web Albums web site, or both! I was envisioning someone working on their desktop with a collection of images, and then wanting to post them as a collection to DSpace. Basically this would either pass the files to an external handling application (on the same machine) or by creating a temporary host (as with the Picasa Web Uploader API), that a script on the DSpace Archive would then be able to ingest. I mention Picasa because it's free and the apis are available. Another similar idea would be an Adobe Lightbox plugin. -Joseph On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 15:06, Peter Dietz pdiet...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, First off, I do agree that picasa is an awesome tool. I use it all the time for personal use. And syncing photos to your web gallery is super easy. Second, the picasaweb API is super easy to use, to re-purpose your photos, i.e. https://github.com/Cloudhaus/RailHaus/blob/master/app/views/events/show.html.erb However, I'm stumbling into a blank for what to do next with picasaweb, and then to DSpace. Maybe you could build an app for sword, that will let you specify a picasaweb gallery to mirror/migrate into your DSpace, and then have sword do the submission. Or, like a collection in DSpace, you can specify the content source as being a picasaweb gallery to fetch the content, and import into DSpace. However, once the import is successful, it shouldn't really try to poll for updates to the gallery. Another possibility would be to add a step to configurable-submission, where you can specify remote source and have it fetch a bunch of images during a submission. This might import the gallery as as multiple bitstreams in one item. I attended a conference at OCLC today, where the Dryad project was demonstrated, and they could specify a content source, and enter a unique ID for the article (doi), and then it will go fetch the paper. I think @mire was contracted to build that. Additionally, I'm sure someone, somewhere is foaming at the mouth thinking curation task. Another, most likely more complicated approach would be to look at Adobe's latest offering. http://www.adobe.com/products/adobedrive/ If one were to make DSpace CMIS compatible, you can have user upload directly to DSpace from Adobe Bridge. That sounds like it might meet people where they're working in the digitization workflow. Sorry, that sounds like a big long brain dump. Peter Dietz On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Vibhaj Rajan vibhaj.rajan.cs...@itbhu.ac.in wrote: Hi Joseph, I also took the word deprecated to mean something developers usually take but from your notice, I agree that use of the API would be fine. Thanks for the wonderful idea about uploading from Picasa. Though I am not among the DSpace developers but only another student interested to contribute to DSpace, I thank you for your will to help DSpace improve. Hope the topic receives the attention of the developers at DSpace. Regards, On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Joseph joseph.rho...@gmail.com wrote: Good Point Vibhaj. I noticed that it was deprecated, but the following disclaimer was on the project home page ( http://code.google.com/apis/picasa/) Note: The Picasa APIs will continue to function in existing and future versions of the Picasa client for the
Re: [Dspace-devel] Picasa Web Uploader
Good Point Vibhaj. I noticed that it was deprecated, but the following disclaimer was on the project home page (http://code.google.com/apis/picasa/ ) Note: The Picasa APIs will continue to function in existing and future versions of the Picasa client for the foreseeable future. However, these APIs are being marked as deprecated to reflect that they're no longer undergoing active development and experimentation, which is the hallmark of APIs in the Code Labs program. I read it as meaning that they're not adding anything to it, but that it's not necessarily going anywhere. Not what I usually think of when someone mentions deprecated, but it seams reassuring in this case. I could be wrong. I think it would be a nice addition to be able to submit from Picasa. Its got a rather slick interface for displaying and organizing images, and it's intuitive to select a bunch of images, or folder, and click an Archive in DSpace button. The user could then provide the appropriate metadata common to the files. I'm willing to throw around more ideas with those involved in this GSOC project, or continue the discussion on this list. -Joseph On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:14, Vibhaj Rajan vibhaj.rajan.cs...@itbhu.ac.inwrote: Hello Joseph, I found the Picasa API to be deprecated but the idea seems to be very much interesting. Making usage of DSpace easier to non-technical users was the aim of the Improve Submitter User Experience idea at GSoC this year. I think DSpace developers mentoring that project will have much to say regarding this. Regards, On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Joseph joseph.rho...@gmail.com wrote: DSpace Developers, I came across this API today and I was wondering if anyone has tried to make a bridge between DSpace and Picasa. http://code.google.com/apis/picasa/docs/web_uploader.html I'm thinking that it may be possible to interact with the sword interface somehow. I'm at a Lab that has tens of thousands of images and I'm looking for ways to make it easier for non-tech people to add many images to a collection. Any thoughts or experiences? Thank You, Joseph -- Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise Lean software platforms are now widely adopted and the benefits have been demonstrated beyond question. Learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfemails ___ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel -- *Vibhaj Rajan **Junior Undergraduate Department of Computer Engineering** IT BHU Varanasi +91 92 3531 2784* -- Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise Lean software platforms are now widely adopted and the benefits have been demonstrated beyond question. Learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfemails___ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
Re: [Dspace-devel] Picasa Web Uploader
Hi Joseph, I also took the word deprecated to mean something developers usually take but from your notice, I agree that use of the API would be fine. Thanks for the wonderful idea about uploading from Picasa. Though I am not among the DSpace developers but only another student interested to contribute to DSpace, I thank you for your will to help DSpace improve. Hope the topic receives the attention of the developers at DSpace. Regards, On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Joseph joseph.rho...@gmail.com wrote: Good Point Vibhaj. I noticed that it was deprecated, but the following disclaimer was on the project home page ( http://code.google.com/apis/picasa/) Note: The Picasa APIs will continue to function in existing and future versions of the Picasa client for the foreseeable future. However, these APIs are being marked as deprecated to reflect that they're no longer undergoing active development and experimentation, which is the hallmark of APIs in the Code Labs program. I read it as meaning that they're not adding anything to it, but that it's not necessarily going anywhere. Not what I usually think of when someone mentions deprecated, but it seams reassuring in this case. I could be wrong. I think it would be a nice addition to be able to submit from Picasa. Its got a rather slick interface for displaying and organizing images, and it's intuitive to select a bunch of images, or folder, and click an Archive in DSpace button. The user could then provide the appropriate metadata common to the files. I'm willing to throw around more ideas with those involved in this GSOC project, or continue the discussion on this list. -Joseph On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:14, Vibhaj Rajan vibhaj.rajan.cs...@itbhu.ac.in wrote: Hello Joseph, I found the Picasa API to be deprecated but the idea seems to be very much interesting. Making usage of DSpace easier to non-technical users was the aim of the Improve Submitter User Experience idea at GSoC this year. I think DSpace developers mentoring that project will have much to say regarding this. Regards, On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Joseph joseph.rho...@gmail.com wrote: DSpace Developers, I came across this API today and I was wondering if anyone has tried to make a bridge between DSpace and Picasa. http://code.google.com/apis/picasa/docs/web_uploader.html I'm thinking that it may be possible to interact with the sword interface somehow. I'm at a Lab that has tens of thousands of images and I'm looking for ways to make it easier for non-tech people to add many images to a collection. Any thoughts or experiences? Thank You, Joseph -- Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise Lean software platforms are now widely adopted and the benefits have been demonstrated beyond question. Learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfemails ___ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel -- *Vibhaj Rajan **Junior Undergraduate Department of Computer Engineering** IT BHU Varanasi +91 92 3531 2784* -- *Vibhaj Rajan **Junior Undergraduate Department of Computer Engineering** IT BHU Varanasi +91 92 3531 2784* -- Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise Lean software platforms are now widely adopted and the benefits have been demonstrated beyond question. Learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfemails___ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
Re: [Dspace-devel] Picasa Web Uploader
Hi, First off, I do agree that picasa is an awesome tool. I use it all the time for personal use. And syncing photos to your web gallery is super easy. Second, the picasaweb API is super easy to use, to re-purpose your photos, i.e. https://github.com/Cloudhaus/RailHaus/blob/master/app/views/events/show.html.erb However, I'm stumbling into a blank for what to do next with picasaweb, and then to DSpace. Maybe you could build an app for sword, that will let you specify a picasaweb gallery to mirror/migrate into your DSpace, and then have sword do the submission. Or, like a collection in DSpace, you can specify the content source as being a picasaweb gallery to fetch the content, and import into DSpace. However, once the import is successful, it shouldn't really try to poll for updates to the gallery. Another possibility would be to add a step to configurable-submission, where you can specify remote source and have it fetch a bunch of images during a submission. This might import the gallery as as multiple bitstreams in one item. I attended a conference at OCLC today, where the Dryad project was demonstrated, and they could specify a content source, and enter a unique ID for the article (doi), and then it will go fetch the paper. I think @mire was contracted to build that. Additionally, I'm sure someone, somewhere is foaming at the mouth thinking curation task. Another, most likely more complicated approach would be to look at Adobe's latest offering. http://www.adobe.com/products/adobedrive/ If one were to make DSpace CMIS compatible, you can have user upload directly to DSpace from Adobe Bridge. That sounds like it might meet people where they're working in the digitization workflow. Sorry, that sounds like a big long brain dump. Peter Dietz On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Vibhaj Rajan vibhaj.rajan.cs...@itbhu.ac.in wrote: Hi Joseph, I also took the word deprecated to mean something developers usually take but from your notice, I agree that use of the API would be fine. Thanks for the wonderful idea about uploading from Picasa. Though I am not among the DSpace developers but only another student interested to contribute to DSpace, I thank you for your will to help DSpace improve. Hope the topic receives the attention of the developers at DSpace. Regards, On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Joseph joseph.rho...@gmail.com wrote: Good Point Vibhaj. I noticed that it was deprecated, but the following disclaimer was on the project home page ( http://code.google.com/apis/picasa/) Note: The Picasa APIs will continue to function in existing and future versions of the Picasa client for the foreseeable future. However, these APIs are being marked as deprecated to reflect that they're no longer undergoing active development and experimentation, which is the hallmark of APIs in the Code Labs program. I read it as meaning that they're not adding anything to it, but that it's not necessarily going anywhere. Not what I usually think of when someone mentions deprecated, but it seams reassuring in this case. I could be wrong. I think it would be a nice addition to be able to submit from Picasa. Its got a rather slick interface for displaying and organizing images, and it's intuitive to select a bunch of images, or folder, and click an Archive in DSpace button. The user could then provide the appropriate metadata common to the files. I'm willing to throw around more ideas with those involved in this GSOC project, or continue the discussion on this list. -Joseph On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:14, Vibhaj Rajan vibhaj.rajan.cs...@itbhu.ac.in wrote: Hello Joseph, I found the Picasa API to be deprecated but the idea seems to be very much interesting. Making usage of DSpace easier to non-technical users was the aim of the Improve Submitter User Experience idea at GSoC this year. I think DSpace developers mentoring that project will have much to say regarding this. Regards, On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Joseph joseph.rho...@gmail.com wrote: DSpace Developers, I came across this API today and I was wondering if anyone has tried to make a bridge between DSpace and Picasa. http://code.google.com/apis/picasa/docs/web_uploader.html I'm thinking that it may be possible to interact with the sword interface somehow. I'm at a Lab that has tens of thousands of images and I'm looking for ways to make it easier for non-tech people to add many images to a collection. Any thoughts or experiences? Thank You, Joseph -- Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise Lean software platforms are now widely adopted and the benefits have been demonstrated beyond question. Learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfemails ___
