diff --git a/docs/specs/spec-meta-deposit.rst b/docs/specs/spec-meta-deposit.rst index 6ef3c30a..f8e99144 100644 --- a/docs/specs/spec-meta-deposit.rst +++ b/docs/specs/spec-meta-deposit.rst @@ -1,118 +1,116 @@ The metadata-deposit ==================== Goal ---- A client wishes to deposit only metadata about an origin or object in the Software Heritage archive. The metadata-deposit is a special deposit where no content is provided and the data transferred to Software Heritage is only the metadata about an object in the archive. Requirements ------------ The scope of the metadata-deposit is different than the sparse-deposit. While a sparse-deposit creates a revision with referenced directories and content files, the metadata-deposit references any of the following: - origin - snapshot - release - revision - directory - content A complete metadata example --------------------------- The reference element is included in the metadata xml atomEntry under the swh namespace: -TODO: publish schema at https://www.softwareheritage.org/schema/2018/deposit - .. code:: xml HAL hal@ccsd.cnrs.fr hal hal-01243573 The assignment problem https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01243573 other identifier, DOI, ARK Domain description author1 Inria UPMC author2 Inria UPMC References ^^^^^^^^^^ Origins ======= The metadata may be on an origin, identified by the origin's URL: .. code:: xml Graph objects ============= It may also reference an object in the `SWH graph `: contents, directories, revisions, releases, and snapshots: .. code:: xml The value of the ``swhid`` attribute must be a `SWHID `, with any context qualifiers in this list: * ``origin`` * ``visit`` * ``anchor`` * ``path`` and they should be provided whenever relevant, especially ``origin``. Other qualifiers are not allowed (for example, ``line`` isn't because SWH cannot store metadata at a finer level than entire contents). Loading procedure ------------------ In this case, the metadata-deposit will be injected as a metadata entry of the relevant object, with the information about the contributor of the deposit. Contrary to the complete and sparse deposit, there will be no object creation.