Action Validator

Assigned

KFC+ABR

Prev assigned

Tasks adressed

TaskA.4, TaskC.3

Time estimated

not done

Time used

0md

Priority

2

Status

Description in progress

Iteration

14

Notes

Problem

We need to write a webservice, that given a pid, applies the an XML schema validator to each datastream with a schema, and an OWL Lite validator for an OWL document containing the Content Model ontology and the RELS-EXT datastream from the object (with the fedora-model:hasModel property replaced with rdf:type).

Code exists, that given an object finds the correct Schema for each datastream, and generates the correct Ontology from the Content Model of an object. This code needs to be reviewed.

TODO: Should we validate CONTENT datastreams?

We need to hook fedora-APIM methods to do the following:

• Fail on any modifying call on active objects, except if the call invalidates them
• Apply validation code when an object is set to valid
• Apply validation code on ingest, unless ingested object is inactive [TODO: Should we simply inactivate the ingested object(by modifying the XML) for ease of code, and simply reactivate it?]

We probably need to massage the output of the validators, as well.

Notes

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