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[EP-tech] Re: Extracting authors

Any thoughts on this approach? I’ve been trying out some ideas but I can’t
seem to create a user search for the front end, only EPrint searches. At
the very least I’d just like to be able to expose a JSON formatted list of
creators that I could scrape. It would also be handy to do the same with
other things like Subjects.

On 15/08/2014 16:32, "Andrew Beeken" <anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk> wrote:

>Another thought on this as I’ve been doing some digging. Part of my
>external application theory is using the advanced search JSON output of
>EPrints to bring search result information into my scripts (php) - the
>Admin search provides a user search which we can use to get a JSON output
>of all users, however this is not publicly accessible. Is there a way of
>brining this into the public advanced search or perhaps being able to pass
>some kind of authentication token in with my JSON call so that I can
>scrape the user information from the advanced search?
>
>On 15/08/2014 11:48, "Andrew Beeken" <anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>Okay, I think this is really going to be the correct approach however
>>using straight up creators like that exposes too much. I¹m only
>>interested
>>in recording the details for our users, most likely user ID (for
>>searching
>>purposes) and their name (for easy identification). Pretty much what you
>>get from http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/view/creators/ - would this be easy
>>to expose on the OAI endpoint? Is there also an easy way to harvest from
>>here?
>>
>>On 07/08/2014 09:25, "Ian Stuart" <Ian.Stuart@ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>On 06/08/14 15:47, Andrew Beeken wrote:
>>>> Hello all!
>>>>
>>>> I¹m currently looking at building applications that sit to the side
>>>> of Eprints but tap into the data it stores. What I¹m hoping to be
>>>> able to get, possibly via an OAI scrape, is a list of all of the
>>>> authors stored in the system so that I can create a lookup table in
>>>> my app ­ is this straightforward?
>>>
>>>As an OAI-PMH set, yes.... very easy
>>>
>>>$oai->{sets} = [
>>>   ......
>>>   { id=>"creators", allow_null=>0, fields=>"creators_name"},
>>>   ......
>>>];
>>>
>>>
>>>As a cgi call, or in code, is slightly more complicated.
>>>
>>>My initial thought would be to create a script that goes through the
>>>dataset and builds a "list of hashes": where the author details are
>>>stored in a hash, and one of those key/value pairs is a list of
>>>eprintids for the records they are listed as authors. Store this
>>>data-object on disk, and your API can call that to do whatever
>>>calculations you need.
>>>
>>>Depending on the size and activity of your Repository, you can build the
>>>"list-of-hashes" hourly, daily, or whatever.
>>>
>>>--
>>>
>>>Ian Stuart.
>>>Developer: ORI, RJ-Broker, and OpenDepot.org
>>>Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team,
>>>EDINA,
>>>The University of Edinburgh.
>>>
>>>http://edina.ac.uk/
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