Creating and Updating IESR Descriptions

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Creating and Updating IESR Descriptions

• Ann Apps
• MIMAS,
• The University of Manchester, UK

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Data Supplier Details

• Supplier different from Agent
• Register as Supplier with IESR
• Supplier organisation name
• Password (not secure)
• IP range option
• Persistent identifier used as creator in
  external IESR records
• Contact email
• Reminder frequency

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Editing Single Entity

• Select Entity Type
• Create to begin new description
• Edit to update existing description
• Select from list
• Edit Record
• Identifiers are local part of IESR identifiers
• Lists of available entities also show title

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Data Editing Workflow (Save)

• Save to save current state of description in
  Saves area
• Description may be incomplete
• Must Save at end of session
• Displays current description, with options
• Further editing of this description
• Edit another entity
• Commit

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Data Editing Workflow (Commit)

• Commit to add description to persistent
  committed area
• Validate data
• Check for missing data
• Commit
• Description added to database overnight (not
  Demo)
• Notifies IESR Content Manager (not Demo)
• Option to edit a new entity

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Data Editing Workflow (Links)

• Linking available to committed entity
• Commit without links allowed (warning)
• Not added to database without required links
• Service with no serves link considered
  transactional
• Linking available forward (e.g. owner) and
  inverse (e.g. owns)

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Service Conditional Fields

• Conditional fields shown as necessary
• Most conditional on service access method
• E.g. Access method Z39.50 shows
• interface required
• Supports standard Bath profile options

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Imminent Developments

• Update live IESR database (very soon)
• Delete entity (high priority)
• Display entity as XML
• Interface file creation ZeeRex and webcgi