README.md

mcr-mods-opencost-plugin

BETA – For testing purposes only!

This MyCoRe plugin adds basic openCost support to MODS records and provides an initial editor UI and OAI integration.
The implementation is still experimental and subject to change.

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Installation & Usage in UBO / MIR

1. Check out the plugin from your repository.
2. Build it locally:

   mvn clean install

3. Copy the generated JAR file into the lib directory of your MyCoRe installation.
4. Important: When using the plugin in UBO, the configured MIR.EditorForms.CustomIncludes is not applied.

Current Implementation Status

• Embeds openCost information in mods:extension/@type="openCost".
• Provides an editor form for capturing openCost metadata.
• Adds an OAI set and a mods2opencost stylesheet for exporting the metadata.

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ToDos / Planned Extensions

• Add DataCite extensions according to the OpenCost specification
  (see: https://github.com/opencost-de/opencost/blob/main/doc/datacite/examples/datacite_minimal.xml).
• Extend functionality with Contract support (classification alone is not sufficient).
• Expand towards the full internal representation format: openCost_intern