Integration of RDF Object Linking into Islandora XML Forms: FBA Modules

1. The Integration of Resource Description Framework (RDF)Object Linking into Islandora XML-Form Functionality Exemplified by The FBA Vocabulary and Object Linker Modules in Islandora Nick Bywell: Freshwater Biological Association 9th May 2014

2. The FBA Vocabulary Module The “FBA Vocabulary Module” was written by Simon Fox of the FBA as part of the same project and also benefitted from the oversight of Dr Michael Haft. Specialist expertise in the use of metadata-schema was provided by Richard Gartner and Dr Mark Hedges of KCL. Resource Description Framework (RDF) expertise was provided by Dr Anna Jordanous of KCL. The analysis of the data requirements was performed by Ian Pettman and Hardy Schwamm of the FBA.

3. The FBA Object Linker Module The “FBA Object Linker Module” was written by Nicholas Bywell of the Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) as part of a joint project carried out by the FBA and King’s College London (KCL) to archive the scientific data produced by both the Demonstration Test Catchment (DTC) Project and the Greenhouse Gas Project (GHGP), projects that are funded by the UK’s Department of the Environment, Fisheries and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). The development of the module benefited from the oversight of Dr Michael Haft of the FBA and draws on some of the ideas and ontology processing developed by Giancarlo Birello of CNR-Ceris and Rosemary Le Faive of McGill University in the “Islandora Relationship Editor” module.

4. Dependencies:Islandora-6-13.1 Tuque-1.x Arc2 PHP 5.3.3 Download https://github.com/FBA/islandora_autocomplete/blob/6.x/modules/sparql/README https://github.com/FBA/fba_solution_pack_vocabulary/README.md

9. What does it look like from the perspective of someone with Editor privileges?

14. Object Linker One submit => Multiple records ingested

18. What happens if one of the records is subsequently edited?

19. One edit => Multiple edits of symmetrically linked datastreams and RDF links + Multiple futheringestions

20. What happens if you autocomplete on a collection that, unlike a vocabulary, can contain duplicate titles, such as a collection of images?

22. The appended IDs distinguish duplicates and are automatically removed on ingestion.

23. A future enhancement could be a cursor-hover function that retrieves specified fields from the duplicate records to allow them to be more easily distinguished.

24. What happens when records are purged?

28. Symmetric Datastream entries + RDF statements are unwound on single and collection purges, but not when individual datastreams are purged or when purging is done via the Fedora-Admin Utility.

29. How is a PDF record linked to a vocabulary or geographic term?

31. The standard PDF XML Form has “Topic” and “Geographic” fields that are Tag-type fields so it is not possible to set up the sort of autocomplete that required for object linking.

32. Therefore they must be converted to Tab-panel-type fields. So there are implications for existing data because the XML produced by the two types are not compatible with each other.

34. How is the object linking configured in the Administrator functionality?

39. As with the other types of autocomplete, in order to take effect, the name of the autocomplete entry must be quoted in the Advanced Options “Autocomplete” field associated with a specific field on an XML-Form.

40. It can require the completion of 22 fields to configure the object-linking behaviour of one field on an XML form. 

41. How is the link from a PDF subject term to a vocabulary term configured?

45. The autocomplete that controls the linking of a broader subject term to a narrower subject term in the vocabulary requires all the fields to be completed because there is a symmetrical relationship between the fields in the “subject” and “object” datastreams.