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After conversations with ichard & Larry, various renaming has been done, for consistency and predictable behaviour. The names of the classes now reflect what they are. e.g. the old 'DisseminationPackage' is actually a class that disseminates packages, rather than representing a package itself.
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Old Name | New Name |
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AbstractMetsDissemination | AbstractMETSDisseminator |
AbstractMetsSubmission |
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AbstractMETSIngester | |
DisseminationPackage |
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PackageDisseminator | |
DSpaceMetsSipExport |
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DSpaceMETSDisseminator |
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DSpaceMetsSipImpor | DSpaceMETSIngester |
PDFPackage |
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PDFIngester | |
SubmissionPackage |
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PackageIngester |
What is a package?
For this discussion, a package is a representation of a DSpace Item in a single data stream. DSpace must be able to ingest a new Item from the package representation. The package does not necessarily contain every bit of data and metadata within itself; it may include references to external resources which must be fetched separately.
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