ESciDoc Transfer Ownership

Resources

• for Items
• for Containers
• for Contexts - no need, as can be done via roles.

Definitions

• Owner of a resource in eSciDoc is a user who has created the resource (the depositor of the resource) i.e. property: created-by
• Transferring of the ownership would mean that another user is from the moment of transferring owner of the resource

Current status

• Item/Container resources are versioned
• there is no distinction between created-by on resource level and created-by on version level
• only last-modified by on version level is kept for each version

• Context resource is not versioned
• there is only distinction between created-by

Approaches for Items/Containers

Modify created-by for all versions of the resource

• this has to be done by special core method
• the information on who had been previous owner is lost
  • an entry in the version history shall be made with event-type (transfer ownership) and information on the old user
  • new user becomes automatically "created-by" of the resource
• rights and privileges related to the owner automaticaly are transferred to the new owner
• simpler, smaller revision needed

Modify created-by for last version of the resource only

• core service has to introduce created-by for versions as well
• in this case, created-by for resource will be equal to created-by for versions starting with the version in which the resource was at the time of ownership transfer
• rights and privileges related to the owner are always checked by created-by on the resource level (not on the version)
• complex, huge revision needed

Approaches for Contexts

• Context related roles are:
  • Context Administrator
  • Context Modifier

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