Summary DOMS-related APIs

API wsdls and interfaces: webserviceapis.zip

Bitstorage API

• Upload (save-md5)): save a file and get md5sum back

  • parameters: file
  • returns: URL + md5sum

• Approve: approve a file

  • parameters: file ? URL ? md5sum ?
  • returns: ?

• Delete: delete a file not approved

  • parameters: file ? URL ?
  • returns: ?

• Space-left: report space left

  • returns: space left

File Characterization API

• Characterize

  • parameters: URL
  • returns: 'output of characterization tools' + file format ID

Fedora 3.0 API

• As is :). Exception: purge is not allowed.

File Object Work-Flow

• Build File Object
• Upload File + Put URL in File Object
• Characterize File + Put characterization in File Object
• Ingest and Publish
• Approve File

LDAP API

• Log in
• Log out?

Talk to who?

PID API

• NewPID

  • parameters: prefix string (limited length)
  • returns: unique PID with requested prefix

Search API

• Search

  • parameters: search string
  • returns: search result - list of PIDs or ?