DNB URNs registration

Available since InvenioRDM v11

Info

The URN registration feature requires that you have a contract with the German National Library. You will need to contact urn-support@dnb.de to get an account for the sandbox and the production REST-API.

In order to register URN's with InvenioRDM, you need to two extra modules:

• dnb-urn-service
• invenio-dnb-urn

If you're interested in the source code, you will find it here:

• dnb-urn-service
• invenio-dnb-urn

The first one implements a thin wrapper around the Rest-API maintained by the DNB (German national library), the second enhances the InvenioRDM with URN minting support and xMetaDissPlus serialization via OAI-PMH 2.0.

Adding the invenio-dnb-urn module in the list of dependencies is enough: dnb-urn-service will be automatically installed. In your Pipfile:

[packages]
...
+ invenio-dnb-urn = ">=0.1.3,<1.0.0"

You will have to lock again your Pipfile:

• delete Pipfile.lock
• run invenio-cli install

URN PID provider

The DNB URN Rest-API offers a production service and a sandbox service. The dnb-urn-service wrapper automatically chooses the correct URL depending on the configuration variable URN_DNB_TEST_MODE.

Add the following to your invenio.cfg:

+ URN_DNB_ENABLED = True
+ URN_DNB_USERNAME = "username"
+ URN_DNB_PASSWORD = "password"
+ URN_DNB_ID_PREFIX = "urn:nbn:de:hbz:6"
+ URN_DNB_TEST_MODE = True

#
# Persistent identifiers configuration
#
RDM_PERSISTENT_IDENTIFIER_PROVIDERS = [
  ...
+   # URN identifier
+   provider.DnbUrnProvider(
+     "urn",
+     client=provider.DNBUrnClient("dnb"),
+     label=_("URN"),
+   ),
]

RDM_PERSISTENT_IDENTIFIERS = {
  ...
+   "urn": {
+     "providers": ["urn"],
+     "required": True,
+     "label": _("URN"),
+   },
  ...
}

The URN PID provider is configured to automatically generate and mint the URN: there is no support for URNs in the upload form UI.

xMetaDissPlus export

The DNB offers harvesting metadata and data for long time preservation. You can configure it by adding the xMetaDissPlus export the InvenioRDM OAI-PMH 2.0 server. To add the export format to your instance add the following sequence to your invenio.cfg:

OAISERVER_METADATA_FORMATS = {
  ...
+  "xMetaDiss": {
+    "serializer": "invenio_dnb_urn.oai:xmetadiss_etree",
+    "schema": "http://www.d-nb.de/standards/xmetadissplus/xmetadissplus.xsd",
+    "namespace": "http://www.d-nb.de/standards/xmetadissplus/"
+  },
  ...
}

The xMetaDissPlus format makes use of the OpenAIRE resource types. If you don't use the default resource types provided by InvenioRDM you will have to change the following settings accordingly:

XMETADISS_TYPE_DINI_PUBLTYPE = "openaire_type"
XMETADISS_TYPE_DCTERMS_DCMITYPE = "openaire_type"

In order to fully implement xMetaDissPlus with all mandatory fields, the metadata definition has to be expanded by custom fields. At first add the file thesis_types.yaml to /app_data/vocabularies (you will find the content here):

- id: "thesis.doctoral"
  title:
    en: "PhD thesis"
    de: "Dissertation"
- id: "thesis.habilitation"
  title:
    en: "Habilitation treatise"
    de: "Habilitationsschrift"
- id: "bachelor"
  title:
    en: "Bachelor's thesis"
    de: "Bachelorarbeit"
- id: "master"
  title:
    en: "Master's thesis"
    de: "Masterarbeit"
- id: "Staatsexamen"
  title:
    en: "State examination"
    de: "Staatsexamen"
- id: "M.A."
  title:
    en: "Graduate degree"
    de: "Magisterarbeit"
- id: "Diplom"
  title:
    en: "Diploma thesis"
    de: "Diplomarbeit"            

Then change the vocabularies.yaml:

thesis:
  pid-type: ths
  data-file: vocabularies/thesis_types.yaml

Next, change your invenio.cfg:

from invenio_records_resources.services.custom_fields import TextCF
from invenio_vocabularies.services.custom_fields import VocabularyCF

RDM_NAMESPACES = {
  # DNB Thesis
  "thesis": "https://dnb.de/thesis/",
}

RDM_CUSTOM_FIELDS = {
  VocabularyCF(
    name="thesis:level",
    vocabulary_id="thesis",
    dump_options=True,
    multiple=False,
  ),
  TextCF(
    name="thesis:organisation",
  ),
  TextCF(
    name="thesis:place",
  ),
}

RDM_CUSTOM_FIELDS_UI = [
  {
    "section": _("Hochschulschriftenvermerk"),
    "fields": [
      dict(
        field="thesis:level",
        ui_widget="Dropdown",
        props=dict(
          label="Abschluss",
          placeholder="Grad des Abschlusses",
          icon="pencil",
          description="You should fill this field with the thesis degree",
          search=True,  # True for autocomplete dropdowns with search functionality
          multiple=False,   # True for selecting multiple values
          clearable=True,
          required=False,
        )
      ),
      dict(
        field="thesis:organisation",
        ui_widget="Input",
        props=dict(
          label="Hochschule",
          placeholder="Verleihende Hochschule",
          icon="pencil",
          description="You should fill this field with the institution that awards the degree",
          required=False,
        )
      ),
      dict(
        field="thesis:place",
        ui_widget="Input",
        props=dict(
          label="Ort",
          placeholder="Ort",
          icon="pencil",
          description="Place of the university/institution.",
          required=False,
        )
      ),
    ]
  }
]

Init the new custom fields:

pipenv run invenio rdm-records custom-fields init