EPrints -- AMF metadata output - done

Person (author) identification aid. (PID, PIDAID)

• ACIS side:

  • ACIS records table

    • add ciphered email address column (MD5) to the records table - done

    • document - done

• EPrints side:

  • EPrints user interface enhancement specification and technical guide (HTML prototype, JavaScript technology guide) - done on a basic level, needs a little more work

  • Basic query module (ACIS::PIDAID) - started

  • Query-result XML encoding module (ACIS::PIDAID::XML) - started

  • CGI interface spec

  • parameters names and value types (encoding)

    • f: first name

    • l: last name

    • e: email address

    • s: short-id

  • EPrints user interface implementation with XMLHttpRequest - started draft

  • configuration mechanism for ACIS::PIDAID -- mysql access parameters: server, database, user, password

Metadata update request interface

• RePEc::Index and update daemon

  • Make RePEc-Index database multi-thread-safe, either switch it to Mysql or Transaction Store BDB - done, with Transaction store Berkeley Database

  • Make update deamon multi-request-capable - done

  • Change logging methods (plain stdout will not be suitable for it anymore) - done

  • Possibly, switch RePEc-Index to use File Alternation Monitor (FAM) - will not do

  • Make reasonable reader interface to the RePEc-Index data - done

  • document things

• specify ACIS screen for metadata update request interface -- "/meta/update"? (other details are specified in Saskatoon)

• create a way to load arbitrary, admin-specified perl modules in ACIS (specified via configuration)

• client part: update request module (ACIS::Update::Request)

• configuration mechanism for update request client module:

  • update request target URL (http://.../meta/update)

  • originating archive id

  • log filename to write

• implement server part in ACIS (ACIS::Web::MetaUpdate)

• configuration for the server part (list of allowed IP addresses, list of known requesting archives)

• add update request module to EPrints, tie it to appropriate hooks

• write mirroring function for RePEc (to be called by ACIS), ask Sune to help us avoid inobvious problems

  • build a map: archive id -> accesspoint URL

  • configuration: path to local RePEc/remo dir

Pack EPrints-related modules and patches into a nice separate package with its own README and INSTALL instructions OR agree with EPrints team (Christopher Gutteridge) on inclusion of these into standard EPrints package

Document things

EconWPA?

Update AMF parser as soon as AMF spec is updated