Open Archive Initiative > Repository

• Requirements
• Installation
• Goal
• Supported Metadata formats
• Supported Verbs
  • Identify
  • List Metadata Formats
  • List Records
  • List Identifiers
  • List Sets (TBA)
  • Get Record
• Configuration
  • OAI Record Managers
  • OAI fields
• Routing
• Populating your initial set of OAI Records
• License
• Maintainers
• Development and contribution

Requirements

• SilverStripe ^4.10
• PHP ^7.4

Installation

composer require silverstripe-terraformers/open-archive-initiative-repository

Goal

The goal of this module is to provide you with an easy entry point to start serving content from your website as an Open Archive Initial Repostory.

This module does not include anything to help with becoming an Open Archive Initiative Harvester.

We are still new to the OAI spec, so we will be doing our absolute best to get everything right. Test coverage for what has been built is very high, but that doesn't help if we've just gotten something incorrect in the spec, so please be prepared to contribute your thoughts and/or code to help improve this module.

Supported Metadata formats

We are currently only building support for oai_dc, however, we will be doing our best to build this in a way that will allow you to easily supplement this module with additional Metadata format support.

Supported Verbs

Identify

Repository name: The default is simply using the Site Title that you have set in the CMS Admin email: Set using the environment variable OAI_API_ADMIN_EMAIL

Please check out OaiController::Identify(). There are many options there for how you can configure different values for this verb.

List Metadata Formats

The response for this endpoint is generated based on the config you specify for OaiController::$supported_formats.

List Records

This endpoint requires that the request includes a metadataPrefix parameter value that matches one of the configs that you have specified for OaiController::$supported_formats.

The output of this endpoint is based on your current OAI Records

Filter support:

• from: specifies a lower bound for datestamp-based selective harvesting. UTC+0 datetimes must be provided.
• until: specifies an upper bound for datestamp-based selective harvesting. UTC+0 datetimes must be provided.
• resumptionToken: Default to 1 hour expiry time. This can be updated through the OaiController::$resumption_token_expiry config
• set: TBA

List Identifiers

Same support as List Records. The only difference is that List Identifiers only provides headers for each OAI Record.

List Sets (TBA)

TBA

Get Record

Requires harvesters to provide a metadataPrefix and identifier.

OAI Records

All data provided through the API is driven by OaiRecords.

Each OaiRecord is associated to one of your DataObjects, however, it indexes all of the content that it cares about so that fetching data for the API does not require you to fetch associated DataObjects.

When/where to OaiRecords get updated with data? See OAI Record Managers.

Configuration

OAI Record Managers

There are two "Record Manager" Extensions that you can apply to appropriate DataObjects. The purpose of these Managers is to control when we trigger updates on OAI Records for our DataObjects.

• OaiRecordManager: This is the standard Manager which should be used for DataObjects that are specifically not Versioned.
• VersionedOaiRecordManager: This extends the above and slightly tweeks which model actions we want to use. This should be used for all DataObjects that are Versioned.

Using the incorrect Manager for your DataObject might result in OAI Records updating at unexpected times.

All updates for OaiRecords are performed through Queued Jobs. Please see the docblock above OaiRecordManager::triggerOaiRecordUpdate() for the rationale behind using Queued Jobs.

OAI fields

This modules makes no assumptions about how you wish to populate OAI Record data. As such, you need to specify how your DataObjects are going to map to the expected OAI fields.

You can have a look in OaiRecord for a list of MANAGED_FIELDS. All of which support you adding CSV values for when you need to have multiple of one field.

A note on CSV parsing: If you're anticipating that some of your properties could contain commas, then you might instead need to map to a method that appropriately wraps your property value in quotes. See OaiRecord for the supported enclosure.

When configuring your field mappings, the array key should map to the Oai field, and the value can map to a property or method in your class. We use relField() to fetch from your class, so you can use any mapping that this framework method supports.

Configure oai_fields in your class:

private static array $oai_fields = [
    // Key = the OAI field name (Title)
    // Value = a property on your model (Title)
    'Title' => 'Title',
    // Key = the OAI field name (Description)
    // Value = a method in your model (getDescription)
    'Description' => 'getDescription',
];

Configure oai_fields in yaml:

App\MyClass:
  oai_fields:
    Title: Title
    Description: getDescription

Routing

Routing for the api is:

/api/v1/oai

If you need to change this route, then you can do so by overriding the routing configuration.

---
name: myapp-openarchive-routes
After:
  - '#rootroutes'
  - '#coreroutes'
  - '#terraformers-openarchive-routes'
---
SilverStripe\Control\Director:
  rules:
    'api/v1/oai': MyApp\OpenArchive\OaiController

Populating your initial set of OAI Records

Because the module can't know what DataObjects you wish to apply the OaiRecordManager to, we have opted not to add any dev task to populate initial OaiRecords. However, below is an example build task that you might adapt/own/use.

In this example we have applied the OaiRecordManager to Page and File.

<?php

namespace App\Tasks;

... imports

class CreateInitialOaiRecords extends BuildTask
{

    private static $segment = 'create-initial-oai-records'; // phpcs:ignore

    protected $title = 'Create Initial OAI Records'; // phpcs:ignore

    protected $description = 'Create/update OAI Records for all Pages and Documents'; // phpcs:ignore

    /**
     * @param HTTPRequest $request
     * @return void
     */
    public function run($request) // phpcs:ignore SlevomatCodingStandard.TypeHints
    {
        $classes = [
            Page::class,
            File::class,
        ];

        foreach ($classes as $class) {
            // Set our stage to LIVE so that we only fetch DataObjects that are available on the frontend. This isn't
            // totally necessary since the Queued Job will validate this itself, but it saves us from queueing Jobs that
            // we know we don't need
            /** @var DataList|OaiRecordManager[] $dataObjects */
            $dataObjects = Versioned::withVersionedMode(static function () use ($class): DataList {
                Versioned::set_stage(Versioned::LIVE);

                return DataObject::get($class);
            });

            // Easy as, just triggerOaiRecordUpdate(). This method + the queued job will take care of the rest
            foreach ($dataObjects as $dataObject) {
                $dataObject->triggerOaiRecordUpdate();
            }
        }

        echo 'Finished queueing OAI Record update Jobs';
    }

}

License

See License

Maintainers

• Chris Penny chris.penny@gmail.com
• Melissa Wu melissa.wu@silverstripe.com

Development and contribution

If you would like to make contributions to the module please ensure you raise a pull request and discuss with the module maintainers.