DC-dot - CGI parameters

CGI parameters

Summary

DC-dot, UKOLN's Web-based Dublin Core generator and editor, operates as a CGI script taking the following parameters:

mode

The mode that DC-dot will operate in. This parameter should be set to one of the following values:

auto: DC-dot will auto-generate metadata for the supplied url and then present a populated Web form for editing.
edit: DC-dot will present a blank for for editing. Any supplied url parameter is ignored.
valid8: DC-dot will validate any existing HTML <meta> tags in the resource at the supplied url and present a summary and any errors and warnings.
rdf_only: DC-dot will auto-generate metadata for the supplied url and present it encoded as DC/RDF/XML. An HTML Web form for editing is not presented when using this parameter.

url

The URL of the resource for which metadata will be auto-generated and/or validated.

guesspublisher

Indicates whether DC-dot should attempt to guess the value of the Publisher element. The guess is based on the registrant of the domain name in the supplied url. The process of guessing the Publisher may be quite slow. The value of this parameter should be set to yes or no.

display_format

Indicates the format that DC-dot will use to display the auto-generated metadata. This parameter should be set to one of: html, xhtml, rdf or xml. The default format is xhtml.

Examples

Maintained by: Andy Powell
Last updated: 18-Nov-2002

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DC-dot was developed by UKOLN, University of Bath.

UKOLN is funded by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives & Libraries,
the Joint Information Systems Committee of the Higher Education Funding Councils,
as well as by project funding from the JISC and the European Union.
UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based.