[SPTUsers] SPT hierarchy feeds, use OAI?

[Darin Burleigh]

On Wednesday, April 14, 2004, at 08:12 AM, Edward Almasy wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 14, at 04:03:01AM, John Isenhour wrote:
>> I am looking into ways of setting up a set of scout instantiations at
>> various state U.'s whos metadata would be harvestable into a central
>> "Big Scout" to create a pooled resource finding aid where the metadata
>> would point back to local resources.
>

>     Of the above options, I would say that export/transfer/import is 
> likely
>    the best choice right now, transferring via rsync or scp or whatever
>    other option best suits your environment.
>
>    I'm curious:  Why set up multiple SPT installations, instead of 
> having
>    everyone contribute directly to one SPT-based site?


Ed,
   I am also considering a related situation. We are designing one
CWIS installation as a 'submisstion' portal, and a second installation 
as our official
OAI server.  The reason is that we don't want to give the submitters 
access to
our production server.

I don't think export/import will work for us.  We've added some fields 
to the database, and my
very preliminary tests indicate that the export won't capture all the 
data. I could be wrong about
this, and would be happy to be enlightened.

I'm looking into writing a Perl script that reads from one database and 
writes into the other. Since
this will bypass any logic in the PHP layer, I wouldn't expect it to be 
a supported feature. But if you have
any hints/guidelines/known-gotchas you could offer, it would be 
helpful. I'd be happy to share this
with John and others once I got a stable  version working.

For us, a CWIS feature that would make this unnecesary would be 
resource-level access-control,
so that submitters could only edit/delete items that they entered. Is 
it possible this is in the
near-term feature list?

-thanks
darin



Darin Burleigh
Systems Programmer, Journal of Chemical Education
JCE Digital Library
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