This looks very interesting... I can't wait to check it out! Thanks
much.
Shane Beers
Digital Repository Services Librarian
George Mason University
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703-993-3742
On Jul 28, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Thomas A McGee wrote:
Speaking of making batch-importing more accessible, I've put
together an Excel spreadsheet that does a lot of the preparatory
work. It was inspired by the work the people at Nanyang
Technological University had done, using a spreadsheet that held the
metadata and running it as a data source through a Java application.
My addition is to make it work completely within Excel.
A user will build their directory structure and populate it with the
bitstreams:
parent directory
>>subdirectory
>>>>bitstream1.jpg
>>>>bitstream2.jpg
>>subdirectory
>>>>bitstream3.pdf
And then fill out the columns and rows of the spreadsheet
corresponding to each subdirectory. Run the macro, and the
dublin_core.xml and contents files are generated and put into their
corresponding subdirectories.
If you'd like to take a look at this work-in-progress drop me a line
and I'll send it to you. I've only tested in on Excel 2003 running
on XP. There are still a lot of refinements I want to do to make it
easier, and also function things like handling bundles.
You still have to use the command-line tool; this just prepares the
necessary directory.
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Seton Hall University TLTC
973 761 9000
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