Data Source Manager. The Data Source Manager provides services and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for the registration and administration of data sources to the aggregative infrastructure, meaning the organization and scheduling of the respective data collection and processing workflows. Figure 17 illustrates the administrative user interface used to start and monitor the execution of an aggregation workflow for the metadata records available from the OAI-PMH endpoint of CulturaItalia. The given workflow collects the metadata records from the remote OAI-PMH endpoint (sub workflow “collection”), transforms them according to the PARTHENOS Entities model by applying a dedicated transformation rule (sub workflow “transform”) and then pushes the transformed records into a Solr index (sub workflow “index”). From the same interface, the aggregation manager can modify the parameters to use when connecting to the data source (Figure 18), the mappings to be applied (Figure 19), check the history of past executions of the workflows (Figure 20), set an automated scheduling of the workflows and customize notification settings (Figure 21). Figure 17. GUI for Data Source Management Figure 18. Modify connection parameter to a remote data source Figure 19. Parameters section: configuration of the aggregation workflow Figure 20. History section: view status of past executions of the same workflow Figure 21. Other settings section: configure scheduling and email notifications
