DSpace Curation Tasks

Metadata curation tasks used on the CGSpace institutional repository:

• CountryCodeTagger: add ISO 3166-1 Alpha2 country codes to items based on their existing country metadata

Tested on DSpace 6.3. Read more about the DSpace curation system.

Build and Install

Integrate into DSpace Build

To use these curation tasks in a DSpace project add the following dependency to dspace/modules/additions/pom.xml:

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.github.ilri.cgspace</groupId>
  <artifactId>dspace-curation-tasks</artifactId>
  <version>6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

The jar will be copied to all DSpace applications.

Manual Build and Install

To build the standalone jar:

$ mvn package

Copy the resulting jar to the DSpace lib directory:

$ cp target/dspace-curation-tasks-6.0-SNAPSHOT.jar ~/dspace/lib/dspace-curation-tasks-6.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Configuration

Add the curation task to DSpace's config/modules/curate.cfg:

plugin.named.org.dspace.curate.CurationTask = io.github.ilri.cgspace.ctasks.CountryCodeTagger = countrycodetagger
plugin.named.org.dspace.curate.CurationTask = io.github.ilri.cgspace.ctasks.CountryCodeTagger = countrycodetagger.force

And then add the following variables to your local.cfg or some other configuration file that is included:

# name of the field containing ISO 3166-1 country names
countrycodetagger.iso3166.field = cg.coverage.country

# name of the field containing ISO 3166-1 Alpha2 country codes
countrycodetagger.iso3166-alpha2.field = cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2

# only add country codes if an item doesn't have any (default false)
#countrycodetagger.forceupdate = false

Note: DSpace's curation system supports "profiles" where you can use the same task with different options, for example above I have a normal country code tagger task and a "force" variant. The "force" variant is the same task, but it looks for configuration variables using the countrycodetagger.force instead. To use the "force" variant you simply need to add these new variables with the forceupdate parameter overridden to the same configuration file where you put the other variables. The "force" profile clears all existing country codes and updates everything.

Invocation

Once the jar is installed and you have added appropriate configuration in ~/dspace/config/modules:

$ ~/dspace/bin/dspace curate -t countrycodetagger -i 10568/3 -r - -l 500 -s object

Note: it is very important to set the cache limit (-l) and the database transaction scope to something sensible (object) if you're curating a community or collection with more than a few hundred items.

Notes

This project was initially created according to the Maven Getting Started Guide:

$ mvn -B archetype:generate -DgroupId=io.github.ilri.cgspace -DartifactId=dspace-curation-tasks -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DarchetypeVersion=1.4

TODO

• Make sure this doesn't work on items in the workflow
• Check for existence of metadata field before trying to add metadata
• Add tests

License

This work is licensed under the GPLv3.

This repository contains data from the Debian iso-codes project project, which is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1.