Initialize a DataONE SystemMetadata object with default values or values passed in to the constructor.

Initialize a SystemMetadata object by providing default values for core information needed to manage objects across repository systems. SystemMetadata contains basic identification, ownership, access policy, replication policy, and related metadata.

Usage

# S4 method for class 'SystemMetadata'
initialize(
  .Object,
  identifier = NA_character_,
  formatId = NA_character_,
  size = NA_real_,
  checksum = NA_character_,
  checksumAlgorithm = "SHA-256",
  submitter = NA_character_,
  rightsHolder = NA_character_,
  accessPolicy = data.frame(subject = character(), permission = character()),
  replicationAllowed = TRUE,
  numberReplicas = 3,
  obsoletes = NA_character_,
  obsoletedBy = NA_character_,
  archived = FALSE,
  dateUploaded = NA_character_,
  dateSysMetadataModified = NA_character_,
  originMemberNode = NA_character_,
  authoritativeMemberNode = NA_character_,
  preferredNodes = list(),
  blockedNodes = list(),
  seriesId = NA_character_,
  mediaType = NA_character_,
  fileName = NA_character_,
  mediaTypeProperty = list()
)

Arguments

.Object

The object being initialized

identifier

value of type "character", the identifier of the object that this system metadata describes.

formatId

value of type "character", the DataONE object format for the object.

size

value of type "numeric", the size of the object in bytes.

checksum

value of type "character", the checksum for the object using the designated checksum algorithm.

checksumAlgorithm

value of type "character", the name of the hash function used to generate a checksum, from the DataONE controlled list.

submitter

value of type "character", the Distinguished Name or identifier of the person submitting the object.

rightsHolder

value of type "character", the Distinguished Name or identifier of the person who holds access rights to the object.

accessPolicy

value of type "data.frame" containing (subject, permission) tuples to constitute the access authorization rules.

replicationAllowed

value of type "logical", for replication policy allows replicas.

numberReplicas

value of type "numeric", for number of supported replicas.

obsoletes

value of type "character", the identifier of an object which this object replaces.

obsoletedBy

value of type "character", the identifier of an object that replaces this object.

archived

value of type "logical", a boolean flag indicating whether the object has been archived and thus hidden.

dateUploaded

value of type "character", the date on which the object was uploaded to a member node.

dateSysMetadataModified

value of type "character", the last date on which this system metadata was modified.

originMemberNode

value of type "character", the node identifier of the node on which the object was originally registered.

authoritativeMemberNode

value of type "character", the node identifier of the node which currently is authoritative for the object.

preferredNodes

list of "character", each of which is the node identifier for a node to which a replica should be sent.

blockedNodes

list of "character", each of which is the node identifier for a node blocked from housing replicas.

seriesId

value of type "character", a unique Unicode string that identifies an object revision chain. A seriesId will resolve to the latest version of an object.

mediaType

value of type "character", the IANA Media Type (aka MIME-Type) of the object, e.g. "text/csv".

fileName

value of type "character", the name of the file to create when this object is downloaded from DataONE.

mediaTypeProperty

value of type a "list" of "character", IANA Media Type properties for the "mediaType" argument

Value

the SystemMetadata instance representing an object

See also

https://releases.dataone.org/online/api-documentation-v2.0/apis/Types.html

SystemMetadata-class