Basic information

A directory which describes an object consists of:

• a publication.properties file which describes the object,
• a file with the bibliographic description of the publication (in other words, a metadata file), for example, metadata.properties, and
• multi-format object subdirectories.

The publication.properties file

The publication.properties file is the object properties file. It consists of key–value pairs. A key, that is, the name of a property, is separated from the value with the equal sign (=). Each such pair is in a separate row. The file should be saved as UTF-8 encoded.

The permitted properties and their values are presented below.

• The publication.actorsRights.<the login of the user or the name of the group to which the permissions are assigned> key. Comma-separated permissions. Note: if the login contains spaces, they must be preceded with the “\” character. The list of possible permissions (for more information about permissions, see here):

  • pv – access only to published object versions,
  • pr – access only to published object versions,
  • pe – object management.

• The publication.collections key
  Comma-separated identifiers of collections to which the given object is to be assigned.
• The publication.destination.directoryld key
  The identifier of the directory in which the given object is to be put.
• The publication.metadataFile key
  The name of the metadata file (with the extension). A metadata file must be in the directory which describes the given object and must be in one of the formats which are supported by the currently installed metadata import extension (usually, those are the RDF, MARC, or Bibtex formats – see the Importing and Exporting Metadata chapter). If the value for that key is not defined, then the default search is for files with the same name as the name of the main file, with the default extensions for the supported format (for example, .rdf,.mrc, or .bib). 
• The publication.name key
  This is a sequence of characters which determines the name of the given object. If the value for that key is not defined, the application will try to generate the name on the basis of the attribute values (just like in the second step of the new publication creator).
• The publication.notes key
  This is a sequence of characters which determines the administrative notes for the given publication.
• The publication.published key
  This is a sequence of characters which determines if the first edition of the object is to be published. If the value is true, the edition will be published. In any other case, the edition will not be published. The default value is false.
• The image.content key
  The name of the file which contains the thumbnail of the given edition.
• The publication.mainFile.FORMAT_NAME key
  The name of the main file of the object (with the extension and the directory name which corresponds to the format of the added object). The list of supported formats is available here.
• The main.Format key
  The name of the format indicated as the main format of the object. It must be one of the added formats.publication.properties.

Sample publication.properties file:

In the example, the object will be assigned to the collection with identifier 117. The object will be put in the directory with identifier 16. The main format of the publication will be a bitmap, and the main file will be PresentationData.xml. The metadata will be described in the metadata.properties file. The object will be named Sample multi-format file. The object will be published. Apart from the main format (bitmap), the following formats will be added: PDF, DjVu, and TXT.