DigiTool and Web Services

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DigiTools support of Web Services
Repositories and Web Services workshop
2 June 2009 Alan Oliver, Business
Development Director
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Ex Libris products
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DigiTool...
...digital asset management a full-spectrum
approach to creating, managing, and providing
access to locally administered digital collections
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DigiTool customers in the UK

• UCL
• British Library
• Cardiff University
• University of Leeds
• University of Aberdeen
• University of East Anglia
• University of Strathclyde
• Nottingham Trent University (IR)
• Liverpool John Moores University (IR)

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Ex Libris Rosetta...
...preservation of digital assets a new
advanced digital preservation solution that
enables academic libraries to maintain and
preserve cumulative knowledge, and national
libraries and archives to preserve the cultural
heritage of nations for generations to come
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DigiTool/Ex Libris Rosetta roadmap

• Ex Libris Rosetta
• Ex Libris Rosetta for digital asset management

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DigiTools openness

• Add a task
• Add a viewer
• Deep-link to and direct delivery of an object
  using a URL or a Handle identifier (Delivery Web
  Service)
• Repository replication complete or partial,
  supporting
• Primo
• OAI-PMH
• ILS synchronisation
• Search engine publishing
• Third-party application interfacing

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DigiTools openness (continued)

• Z39.50
• X-Server
• Web Services
• DigitalEntityManager
• DigitalEntityExplorer
• MetadataManager

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Web Services overview

• DigiTools repository is a stand-alone component
  with APIs used by DigiTool modules and optional
  third-party systems
• Stream gate API (HTTP Get/Post)
• Single object API (SOAP/RMI)
• Search API (SOAP/RMI)
• Include WSDL (Web Services Description Language)

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Web Service - DigitalEntityManager

• Used to communicate with the repository and
  create, retrieve, delete, update individual
  digital entities
• DigitalEntityManager uses two parameters
• A general attribute XML (unit to search,
  username, password, etc.)
• A DigitalEntityCall (action to take)

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Example general attribute XML
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Example digital_entity_call
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Web Service - DigitalEntityExplorer

• Used to search the repository indexes to retrieve
  digital entities or a list of PIDs (provided in a
  x_result document)
• DigitalEntityExplorer uses two parameters
• A general attribute XML (unit to search,
  username, password, etc.)
• A x_query document

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Example general attribute XML
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Example x_queries
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Example x_results
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MetadataManager

• Used to search and retrieve a list of metadata
  records OR create, update, delete individual
  records based on matching repository metadata
  indexed results

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Sample input MetadataManagerUpdate

• mid The metadata ID
• general A general document
• description The metadata description
• name The name of the metadata
• type The type of the metadata
• value The metadata XML block

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Sample input MetadataManagerSearch

• general A general document
• name The name of the metadata
• type The type of the metadata
• searchBy Index field to search on
• searchTerm Search term
• orderBy Not implemented
• queryFrom First answer position
• queryTo Last answer position

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Web Service - Delivery

• Used to accept requests and dispatch to
  authorised users file streams and/or metadata
• Built-in to DigiTool, uses http requests

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