Hydra::PCDM

Hydra implementation of the Portland Common Data Model (PCDM)

Installation

Add these lines to your application's Gemfile:

  gem 'active-fedora', '~> 9.3'
  gem 'hydra-pcdm', '~> 0.9'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself:

$ gem install hydra-pcdm

Access Controls

We are using Web ACL as implemented in hydra-access-controls.

Portland Common Data Model

Reference: Portland Common Data Model

Model Definition

Usage

Hydra::PCDM provides three core classes:

Hydra::PCDM::Object
Hydra::PCDM::Collection
Hydra::PCDM::File

A Hydra::PCDM::File is a NonRDFSource (in LDP parlance) &emdash; a bitstream. You can use this to store content. A PCDM::File is contained by a PCDM::Object. A File may have some attached technical metadata, but no descriptive metadata. A Hydra::PCDM::Object may contain Files, may have descriptive metadata, and may declare other Objects as members (for complex object hierarchies). A Hydra::PCDM::Collection may contain other Collections or Objects but may not directly contain Files. A Collection may also have descriptive metadata.

Typically, usage involves extending the behavior provided by this gem. In your application you can write something like this:

class Book < ActiveFedora::Base
  include Hydra::PCDM::ObjectBehavior
end

class Collection < ActiveFedora::Base
  include Hydra::PCDM::CollectionBehavior
end

collection = Collection.create
book = Book.create

collection.members = [book]
# or: collection.members << book
collection.save

file = book.files.build
file.content = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
book.save

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute to this effort, please check out the Contributing Guide