Mare Nostrum

Another institutional repository sneak peek

Before I publish the institutional repository white paper I mentioned a few posts ago, I thought I'd share some examples of how to configure the Xythos Enterprise Document Manager to model the metadata for an institutional repository. Here are two important links:

• Sample institutional repository metadata (short).
• Complete metadata model for DSpace (longer).

These are XML files that include all the custom properties needed, plus the document classes that incorporate these attributes. To use these files in a Xythos instance, here's what you do:

1. Download one of these files.
2. Go to the admin UI for the server.
3. Under Tools, select XML Migration > Import.
4. Fill out the form. Be sure to check the boxes for both importing metadata and document classes.
5. Click Start.
6. Log into the instance as a user who can apply document classes to directories. If you're using the sample data from the evaluation version of 6.0, log in as DemoRMO/xythos.
7. Add the newly-created document class to a directory. Make sure that it's the default document class for that folder.
8. Upload a file to that directory.

You'll now see that the Xythos web UI requests the institutional repository metadata. What do you do with it, once someone has entered it? That all depends on how you integrate the Xythos server with the institutional repository...which the white paper will explain in depth.