Allow connection to CMDI Explorer also for private collections

[claus-zinn]

So far, only published collections can be send to CMDI Explorer (download action). Allow this also for private collections.

[WillemElbers]

Private collections are not publicly accessible. We would need to investigate how the CMDIExplorer could authenticate or allow the VCR to send the xml data directly to the CMDI explorer.

Does the CMDI Explorer currently support POSTing of cmdi data? If so, can you point me to the documentation or an example?

[claus-zinn]

No POST at the moment. But I could try to implement one in the coming days to make it possible posting CMDI metadata to CMDI Explorer.

[claus-zinn]

How is it possible that I can invoke the Switchboard with resources from a private collection?

[WillemElbers]

The resources are not hosted / tied to the virtual collection registry. Thus, if they are accessible (from either a public or private collection) they are also accessible for the switchboard. For downloading the collection this is different in the case of a private collection.

Also note: the VCR currently does not check accessibility of the resource before sending it to the switchboard, so it might send a protected resource the switchboard.