SWORD deposit plugin

[marchitelli]

Hi,
we are deeply testing the sword deposit plugin included in OJS 2.3.3. We are using it in depositing from OJS to an institutional repository using DSpace.
The plugin is very useful and it seems to me very easy to use, too.

I only have two questions:
1. There is a way to customize the plugin for sending metadata in format good to be used in DSpace?
2. When I export articles, I get a lot of records (the journal has a lot of issues) in an unordered list. Three is a way to customize the sorting, so I can find only the article more recent at the top of my list, avoiding to duplicate the deposit?

Thanks,
Andrea

[asmecher]

Hi Andrea,

1. We're using the "swordapp" library (see lib/pkp/lib/swordapp) for creation of the SWORD deposit packages, and this library is designed with DSpace in mind; is there anything in particular that isn't coming in properly?

2. Articles should be sorted by so-called "clean title", i.e. the title with punctuation removed. If this isn't the case, check the database to see if you have settings in the article_settings table with setting_name = 'cleanTitle' for the articles you're seeing listed.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[marchitelli]

Hi Alech,
our firts matter is to get "AuthorsLastName, AuthorsFirstName" and not "AuthorsFirstName AuthorsLastName".

I saw that is possible modifying classes/sword/OJSSwordDeposit.inc.php at line 82
$this->package->addCreator($author->getFullName()); to
$this->package->addCreator($author->getFullName(true));

then I would like to pass to DSpace also the affiliation.
I modified in this way
$this->package->addCreator($author->getFullName(true)." ; ".$author->getAffiliation());
but i can't get the affiliation of the author.

Then, I'm looking for a way to pass to DSpace the Journal name, volume and issue, that I can't see in the METS file.

Regarding the article sorting, I think that for journal that publish a lot, it would be better to aggregate articles by issues, so the JM could deposit all the articles of an issue in a time. Do you think is it possibile? How?

Thanks,
Andrea

[asmecher]

Hi Andrea,

I've filed an entry and added a patch to improve the creator data that goes to DSpace; see http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6056.

If you could suggest appropriate METS elements for for the missing data, I might be able to incorporate those too, if the swordapp library currently supports them.

I've also filed an entry for an issue filter at http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6057, though I likely won't have time to implement this for a while; if you'd like to give it a shot and send us a patch, I can vet it for inclusion.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[anna_marini]

Hi Alec,
there's a little error in your code,
/classes/sword/OJSSwordDeposit.inc.php
at line 85 argument is $creator, not $affiliation

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$creator = $author->getFullName(true);
$affiliation = $author->getAffiliation($this->journal->getPrimaryLocale());
if (!empty($affiliation)) $creator .= "; $affiliation";
$this->package->addCreator($creator);


METS elements that would be useful for dspace are:
- journal name <=> dc.ispartof
- volume (issue) <=> dc.ispartofseries
- keywords <=> dc.subject
- issue date AAAA-MM-DD <=> dc.date.issued

Regards,
Anna

[asmecher]

Hi Anna,

Thanks -- the typo is corrected (and an additional patch uploaded to the Bugzilla entry).

Those additional elements aren't currently supported by the swordapp library that we use to create the deposit packages. I'd suggest contacting someone at http://swordapp.org/ to suggest the additional support for the PHP Sword library for these elements; they've been quite receptive in the past, though of course I'm not sure how well this suits their priorities. (In fact, adding support for those elements to the swordapp-php library is a relatively straightforward modification to the packager_mets_swap.php file -- they would probably love to receive a contributed patch.)

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[asmecher]

Hi Anna / Andrea,

Incidentally, I've just been speaking with one of the folks working on SWORD v2 and they're interested in case studies about how SWORD is being used. It would provide guidance for the next version. Have you used SWORD in practice yet? What are your plans for deploying it?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[marchitelli]

Hi Alech,
we would use SWORD to deposit papers from this journal http://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals to the DSpace owned by the same institute, http://www.earth-prints.org/
Now, we are looking for a clean way to pass to DSpace some data from OJS (the data that Anna listed above).

We plan to deploy the upgrade of both OJS and DSpace in a few weeks: I can announce it here or directly to you, if you are interested in.
Moreover, we would like to propose the use of sword to our customers running both ojs journals and a repository.

Feel free to ask to me more details or to send my contacts to the people that are asking to you.

Andrea

[stuartlewis]

Hi Anna,

Thanks -- the typo is corrected (and an additional patch uploaded to the Bugzilla entry).

Those additional elements aren't currently supported by the swordapp library that we use to create the deposit packages. I'd suggest contacting someone at http://swordapp.org/ to suggest the additional support for the PHP Sword library for these elements; they've been quite receptive in the past, though of course I'm not sure how well this suits their priorities. (In fact, adding support for those elements to the swordapp-php library is a relatively straightforward modification to the packager_mets_swap.php file -- they would probably love to receive a contributed patch.)

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Hi Alec,

I've just (finally - after about 2.5 years of development!!!) released version 1.0 of the SWORDAPP-PHP library: http://php.swordapp.org/ or direct from github: https://github.com/stuartlewis/swordapp-php-library/

This includes support for subjects in the packager, and a few other changes. Since the code is relatively stable now, I thought it would be safe to call it 1.0!

I hope that is useful for Anna.

(I also wanted to release a 1.0, as I now need to start working on the SWORD v2 version of the library).

Thanks,


Stuart

[WebDev]

Hello, sorry for opening this old thread, but I tripped on this topic on a search at google and decided to drop a few words since I believe that my current problem is related to what I saw here.

I have a few questions about sword and what I can do with it with the problem that I currently have to solve at my work.

I'm currently working at one Research Center, and I developed in php a software that allows researchers to deposit their work (papers, journals, etc.) and this software is used by the administration board to validate, manage, and do all things related to that work.

The university where I work currently has a DSPACE repository where they keep the data from all the work produced by those researchers as well other publications.

This repository is managed by a librarian and also researchers, who can deposit their work, but they need to repeat the process twice (once for the software I developed and again to DSPACE manually)

My current problem to solve is that the Research Center need an automated way to publish all validated word from their researchers directly to DSPACE, and upon validation they just want to integrate the validation option to automatic publishing it to DSPACE.

From what I understood, Swordapp allows me to do this, but I never used it in the past and I would like, if possible, some pointers or ideas where to start to accomplish something like this. Do I need a swordserver as well or this can be done directly from my software + sword to dspace?

Thank you in advance.

[asmecher]

Hi WebDev,

These forums are specific to software written by the Public Knowledge Project, e.g. OCS, OJS, OMP, and OHS; it doesn't sound like you're using any of those. I'd suggest asking someone involved in maintaining the Swordapp PHP library.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[WebDev]

Thank you for your reply.