BLR/Zenodo: uploads are not published

[myrmoteras]

@gsautter there is an increasing number up uploads on BLR that are not published

https://zenodo.org/deposit?page=1&size=20&status=draft#

[gsautter]

That happens if the deposition for a PDF or PNG (usually the latter) is created successfully, but the subsequent file upload fails for whatever reasons.

The latter tend to be error responses from the Zenodo API, which I keep track of and inform the Zenodo people about.

[gsautter]

For the last 7 days, I've found:

• HTTP 403 "Forbidden" errors, most likely for PDFs that are on Zenodo, but were not uploaded by the BLR account - no chance about those, unless the deposition owners grant BLR the required access
• HTTP 408 "Timeout" errors ... not sure what that was due to, but it surely was a temporary issue, and the document is up on BLR now with all its figures
• HTTP 500 "Server Internal" errors, which are either due to something actually going wrong on the Zenodo end, or attempts at uploading a PDF with a (third-party minted) DOI that already exists in Zenodo.

The latter HTTP 500 errors due to already existing DOIs should actually be a different error code, most likely an HTTP 403 "Forbidden", an HTTP 409 "Conflict", an HTTP 422 "Unprocessable Entity", or an HTTP 423 "Locked", whichever ... up to the Zenodo people to decide.

The one important thing to make sure of on the Plazi end is that if you get a PDF from Zenodo, process it, and put it on TB, you make sure to add the "Zenodo-Dep" ID in the document metadata dialog. This way, the server side synchronizer knows there already is a deposition for the PDF, and it just has to add the figures.

[myrmoteras]

well, I am not a machince, and might forget, but normally I add the Zenodo-Dep Id.

The issue is that we get slowly more users that want to join BLR and they do it by registering, uploading and add a link the BLR. I then have to accept it. This is less work for me, but right now we do not have write access to those articles.

According to Lars, this should change in Q1 this year, but then still depends on negotiating with everybody to get access, unless Zenodo creates a system that allows us writing in all articles that are part of the BLR community. To be further discussed with Lars/Tim.

Right now I I will obstain from marking up articles that are on BLR but not submitted by us.

[gsautter]

Write access is key here ... how could our server possibly add any links to any citing treatments or contained figures if it cannot even write the metadata of those depositions?

[gsautter]

Any news in this regard? Q1 has been over for a while ...