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- Implementing a web service interface (with authentication) to the VIVO RDF API, to allow the Harvester and other tools to add/remove data from VIVO and trigger appropriate search indexing and recomputing of inferences.
- This would also enable round-trip editing of VIVO content from Drupal or another tool external to VIVO via the SPARQL update capability of the RDF api
- Put and delete of data via LOD requests – this has been suggested but we're not sure a specification even exists for an LOD "put" requestrequest – please add references here if you're aware of discussion or documentation.
Editing
- See comments on VIVOIMPL-15 with respect to improving the permissions scheme for editing and make its functions more transparent to users. The best way forward here would be to transfer what's referred to as the editing policies, now hard-wired in code, to a set of RDF statements conforming to an editing policy ontology and editable from the Site Admin menu. This was the approach taken for the user model, and is proposed as an improved way of managing the display model (primarily for managing menu pages) and the application configuration ontology.
- Improve editing of data held in context nodes from the organization, event, or other related entity, principally via relationships like authorships or positions or via roles realized in processes or events – most custom forms support entry and editing only from the person. This requires no new functionality but will involve implementing additional custom forms
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