sara-nl / ibridges

Connectors between iRODS and external repositories

iBridges

Authors

• Christine Staiger (SURFsara)
• Stefan Wolfsheimer (SURFsara)

License Copyright 2017-2018 SURFsara BV

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Synopsis

• Some classes and workflows to connect iRODS to other data services
• directory with experimental scripts highlighting the workflow
• directory with workflow and client implementations

Requirements

• python 2.7
• iRods icommands
• iRODS instance
  • iRODS 4.1.10 or 4.2.1
  • Rodsuser 'anonymous' with read rights to /zone/home/public/<repo_name>

python packages

patched dataverse-client-python via submodule:

git submodule update --init --recursive

(see also requirements.txt)

• urllib3
• requests
• lxml
• bleach
• termcolor
• uuid
• python-irodsclient

Features

iRODS functionality

• Creation of tickets for anonymous access

Integration with Dataverse

• Creating a Dataverse draft with either only metadata or metadata and data
• Mapping of metadata in iRODS to Dataverse citation metadata template
• Creation of Persistent Identifiers with B2HANDLE [TODO]
• Linking to data in iRODS by Persistent Identifiers or by iRODS Tickets
• If HTTP endpoint or Davrods endpoint is given, data is made accessible to user davrods and anonymous
• NOTE: Dataverse offers a nice user interface for data in draft state and already assigns PIDs to drafts, hence we skip that publishing part in the client and leave it to the user.

Integration CKAN

• Creating a CKAN package containing only metadata
• Mapping of metadata in iRODS to CKAN citation metadata template
• Creation of Persistent Identifiers with B2HANDLE [TODO]
• Linking to data in iRODS by Persistent Identifiers or by iRODS Tickets
• If HTTP endpoint or Davrods endpoint is given, data is made accessible to user davrods and anonymous
• NOTE: Metadata is publicly available directly publicly available, i.e. there is no draft phase in CKAN

Usage

see Usage