---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ian Stuart <ian.stu...@ed.ac.uk> Date: 20 January 2011 01:27 Subject: Re: content negotiating for package formats To: techadvisorypa...@swordapp.org
On 19/01/11 11:28, Richard Jones wrote: > > I think we're talking slightly cross-purposes here. The problem with the > content negotiation is in when the client /retrieves/ its content from > the sword server, not when it deposits it. > > From a deposit point of view we have the acceptPackaging field in the > service document, which tells the client what formats the server will > support the deposit of, and there is the (X-)Packaging header which > tells the server what the client has given them. The default (standard?) > format that we're recommending for SWORD is a plain old zip file, > optionally augmented with dc embedded in an atom entry sent along with > it, which is very much in-line with the AtomPub spec (and also fits your > criteria above :) ) > > The problem is when the client is trying to retrieve content from the > server, and wants to ask for it in a particular format via content > negotiation. At the moment, there is no provision in HTTP Accept- > headers to ask the server for a METS package. To a certain extent, yes.... however that also assumes that SWORD is only ever a transport mechanism to transfer from Client-to-Server. To my mind, SWORD is an agnostic transport mechanism: carrying messages from one "machine" to another "machine", so messages should work bilaterally.... if the desktop application requests a transfer from the Learning Object Repository, which way is the "Deposit"? Hence my suggestion that the whole content negotiation thing should be manageable from both ends. -- Ian Stuart. Developer: Open Access Repository Junction and OpenDepot.org Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team, EDINA, The University of Edinburgh. http://edina.ac.uk/ This email was sent via the University of Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Sword-app-techadvisorypanel mailing list Sword-app-techadvisorypanel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sword-app-techadvisorypanel
