Re: testable properties of repositories that could be used to rate them

Thanks Stuart,

> On 14 Sep 2014, at 22:49, Stuart Yeates <stuart.yeates@VUW.AC.NZ> wrote:
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> On 15/09/14 09:25, Hugh Glaser wrote:
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>>> I've greyed out the 'everything' requirement, since I'm not sure that 'everything' is script-testable.
>> Yes, I was puzzling over that (how it could be made scriptable).
>> Certainly quite a lot of the other things in the list make assumptions about repository identifiers being available - otherwise how can you get started, or ask if dc:title is used, for example?
>> So how do you find the repository identifiers in a scriptable manner?
>> Let’s assume that there is no OAI-PMH support, for example.
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> In the community in which I am working (and which this list grew out of) 'repository' is effectively defined as a document-full website with a working OAI-PMH feed and the backing of a long-lived institution or organisation. Without an OAI-PMH feed, the answer is 'get an OAI-PMH feed.’
Seems sensible to me!
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>> So for this, maybe I could move it to after number 3 (where we know there is RDF) and then I could list the predicates that must have URIs (rather than strings)?
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>>> I've grey'ed out the content negotiation requirements since I'm not aware that any repositories or prototypes that try and do this (I'm happy to be corrected).
>> The standard ePrints 3 software supports content negotiation - e.g. http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/40795
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> I've un-greyed this item. (I confess that most of the input into the document so-far has come from the dspace world)
Great.
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> I've recast most of this in the document. I've not gone for exact reflection of what the design doc says, but script-testable easily-understandable items that encourage useful steps towards best practice.
I’ll make some more suggestions to try to capture a crucial thing - that authors are identified by URI.
Best
Hugh
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> cheers
> stuart
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