docuteam box

docuteam box is both an API and an end-user application that sits on top of a Fedora repository stack. As such, it offers high-level access functionality to repository objects. For example, it is able to generate "Dissemination Information Packages" (DIP) in different extents (single objects or entire depositions), to produce previews/thumbnails for specific binary objects or just query the metadata of objects.

The application is providing both a simple web UI and an API for automated requests.

• The UI offers a cockpit to the repository, i.e. statistics about the repository's content, a SPARQL query interface and a simple search interface.
• The API supports the same business operations to access repository objects and information as its predecessor application docuteam rservices with a couple of differences:
  • authentication is done using X-Auth-token headers
  • DIP creation based on a provided EAD or generic XML not done in async mode anymore but as synchroneous calls, i.e. you'll get the DIP as the response, not just the expected filename.
  • Additional operation to download a mets.xml file without the actual binaries of a DIP
• In addition the API also supports operations to ingest SIPs into Fedora 6 (by sending a path to a SIP) and to replace existing files in Fedora (by sending a path to a binary file and the corresponding RDF metadata).

The technical API documentation is available as OpenAPI specification from within the application itself under ./docs/v1, or here.

There are two methods of authentication for docuteam box:

• The UI uses a Keycloak instance (which can be linked to another authentication service like AzureAD using OpenID or SAML)
• The API is using tokens which can be managed within the UI.