IESR: WebCGI Service Input Templates

Note that these templates are obsolete and their use is no longer supported.

dc:title	JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR) WebCGI Service Input Templates
dc:creator	Ann Apps, University of Manchester, UK.
dc:date	2004-06-11
dc:identifier	http://www.mimas.ac.uk/iesr/metadata/templates/svcwebcgi-template.html
dc:description	Templates for submission of WebCGI Service Descriptions to IESR.
dc:rights	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence: Attribution Required; Non-Commercial; Share-Alike.
version	2.0

During the initial phase of the IESR project descriptions of services will be created using templates, either Excel or XML, by the identified initial contributors. Eventually there will be a Web form for input and editing of data.

Rights. All metadata records in the IESR will be freely available and licensed under a Creative Commons Licence: Attribution Required; Non-Commercial; Share-Alike. When you submit data to the IESR you are agreeing to this licence on your metadata records.

Identifiers. Identifiers for collections, services and agents will be allocated on registration with IESR. For initial submisssion of data please construct simple identifiers to enable correlation by the IESR project team between the collection and its associated services (hasService) and agents (owner, administrator).

Repeated and Optional properties. When properties are repeated please repeat elements in the XML or lines in the Excel spreadsheet. Where optional properties are not included please delete the elements from the XML or the lines from the Excel spreadsheet. Fixed value properties are not included in the data submission templates.

Version 2. Following a review of the IESR metadata early in Phase 2 of the project several changes were made to the metadata available as output from the IESR. These changes are listed at the beginning of the review document. The Excel templates for data supply will not be changed. The XML templates for data supply and the tables below have been updated, but data encoded according to version 1 XML templates will still be accepted.

For help and further information please contact the IESR project team iesr@mimas.ac.uk

WebCGI Service Templates

Note that these templates are obsolete and their use is no longer supported.

• XML
  • XML WebCGI Service Description Template
  • XML WebCGI Service Description Example
• Excel Tabular Format
  • Excel WebCGI Service Description Template
  • Equivalent WebCGI Service Description Web Table
  • Tabular WebCGI Service Description Example

CGI Arguments

Arguments required when calling the WebCGI script via URL are specified as a list of key names along with associated fixed values where appropriate and optional descriptions. For example a webcgi service:
http://www.example.org/mycgi?db=abc&id=123 (where 'abc' id a fixed value and '123' is a variable)
has arguments:

• • key : db
  • value : abc
  • description : Database
• • key : id
  • description : Record identifier

A WebCGI script may have several possible sets of arguments providing different functions, ie. several inputs. In the templates each set of arguments is introduced by by an 'input' Name with no Value in Excel, or nested within an <input> tag in XML. Items in the Excel tabular templates are assumed to be processed sequentially so fixed values and descriptions must immediately follow their keys.

WebCGI Service Description Tabular Form

WebCGI Service Description Example Tabular Form

Note that this example does not include the following optional webcgi service properties: abstract; serviceType; accessDomain; contributor; logo; adminmeta-language; source

3 February 2005