LOCKSS Mini Tutorials

 

Introduction to LOCKSS

The LOCKSS 'Plugin Definer'

- Plugin Name

- Plugin ID

- Plugin Version

- Configuration Parameters

- AU Name Template

- Start URL Template

- Crawl Rules

- Pause time between fetches

- New Content Crawl Interval

Results

References

Writing OAI Plugins

Case Study: VTech ETDs plugin

 

Configuration Parameters

This defines the set of parameters that the plugin will use to identify and differentiate between each AU that uses the plugin. (see Figure 3.1)

  • Example: The following screenshot represents the Configuration Parameters window. Consider the example of Virginia Libraries: The URL being ? http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/VALib/
  • In this website, we find that the journal issues are classified or grouped in terms of ‘Volume Numbers’. Since we want to crawl the contents related to Volume numbers and issues, we can add the ‘Volume (Volume No.)’ parameter from the available parameters section to the Plugin Parameters section. (see Figure 3.2)

Figure 3.1

 

Figure 3.2

 

Copyright © 2006 Kamini Santhanagopalan, Virginia Tech