[content provider] Virginia Tech

[AndrewSallans]

Notes from new content provider [adding old notes from early July 2014):

Cleared SHARE criteria on 7/1/14

API Docs:
http://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/oai/request?verb=Identify

[AndrewSallans]

Notes from SHARE criteria:

(1) Does metadata gathering violate your terms of service?
If so, are we granted explicit, written rights to gather data?

Metadata gathering does NOT violate vtechworks' terms of service.

(2) Does metadata gathering violate your privacy policy?
If so, are we granted explicit, written rights to gather data?

Metadata gathering does NOT violate vtechworks' privacy policy.

(3) Does our sharing the metadata we gather from you violate your policies?
If so, are we granted explicit, written license to share/re-license the metadata?

Sharing metadata does NOT violate vtechworks' policies.

(4) What is the license of the metadata (for example, CC Zero)?
Does that license extend to those beyond the group that gathered it?
If unlicensed, will you explicitly license the content?

Currently the metadata are not licensed. We may license them to CC Zero in the near future.

In order to technically prepare for harvesting data from your repository we need the information about your OAI-PHM endpoint for harvesting your metadata for research release event reports:

(5) Provide OAI-PMH connection information for your repository.

The OAI-PMH base URI is:

http://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/oai/request

(6) Provide any distinguishing characteristics of research outputs in your repository or sets that represent research outputs (as distinct from cultural heritage materials).

The ETD set is rather active and is getting new items almost every day, which I guess would be a good candidate for SHARE testing.

com_10919_5534 ETDs: Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations

VTechWorks as a whole is our IR, so it publishes all types of research outputs from Virginia Tech.

[efc]

The Virginia Tech provider document is now available in the repo. We can use it to keep the latest information about VT in one place.

[erinspace]

Prototype up at https://github.com/erinspace/VT-consumer -- originally written by Coral at https://github.com/webkunoichi/VT-consumer

Closing this thread -- discussion continued at #33