Re: [Fez-developers] Fedora repository bridge software

[Christiaan K. <c.k...@li...>]

Hi Matt

This sounds similar to the OnRAMP work Lynette Rayle is doing with Fez for
NSDL. So I think potentially many people would be interested in this.

Cheers,
Christiaan


On 27/03/08 10:12 AM, "Matt Painter" <ma...@de...> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've whipped up a small PHP application to act as a bridge between public
> websites and internal Fedora repositories. For Archives New Zealand, our
> Fedora repository contains a combination of highly sensitive material plus a
> collection of material for public consumption. As such, the repository itself
> will never be made publically available. In our situation, Fez will also only
> be available internally.
> 
> The application was specifically written to display a 'picture of the day' on
> the Archives website (yet to be made live). It takes an XML file containing a
> list of PIDs of collections that contain publically-available images and a
> list of PIDs of records containing images chosen for display. The application
> contains components to both return the image as a webservice (with optional
> parameters for thumbnail, preview, etc), and descriptive metadata XML which is
> then formatted with an XSL file for display as HTML.
> 
> Is this sort of application suitable for making available via the Fez wiki?
> It's not a modification to Fez itself, but it could potentially be useful for
> others or at least serve as a simple example of API-A access, XPath, XML and
> XSD.
> 
> M
> 

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