Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-14 Thread Dorothea Salo
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Dorothea Salo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Mark Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No its also documented in the dspace/docs section on ItemImport Heh. Missed it, as I've never used the register-bitstreams feature. As I read the

Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-14 Thread Larry Stone
Never mind; answered my own question. This DOES NOT work for imported rather than registered bitstreams. Ah, well. I can edit bitstream descriptions manually for 300+ items; why not? You can update Bitstream description fields under program control with the LNI. It may even be possible to do

Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-14 Thread Dorothea Salo
You can update Bitstream description fields under program control with the LNI. Thanks, that's good to know. I'll see what I can hack together. Dorothea -- Dorothea Salo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw University of Wisconsin Rm 218, Memorial Library (608)

Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-14 Thread Mark Diggory
On May 14, 2008, at 7:28 AM, Dorothea Salo wrote: On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Dorothea Salo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Mark Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No its also documented in the dspace/docs section on ItemImport Heh. Missed it, as I've

Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-14 Thread Dorothea Salo
I'm confused by your response here. This only works with imported items/bitstreams not with registered bitstreams. My fault! Version confusion at work. I apologize for my boneheadedness. Yet more reasons to really, really want 1.5 in production. However, all is not in vain; I did tweak my

Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-14 Thread Tim Donohue
Dorothea Salo wrote: How much of what the various ingest interfaces do is and isn't covered in SWORD? Would it be worthwhile to write against that rather than (re-)rolling our own? Just to pipe in briefly on SWORD: I've been messing around with SWORD quite a bit recently. It's a nice

Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-14 Thread Tim Donohue
Mark Diggory wrote: I feel a little confused, I though that the only thing implemented in the dspace-sword implementation was an integration with the Packager framework, and specifically, just METS SIP packages. While I'll buy in that SWORD itself has that granularity... What is

Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-14 Thread Stuart Lewis
On 14/05/2008 22:54, Tim Donohue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'dspace-sword' module implements a SWORD Server for DSpace. This SWORD Server *does* use the DSpace Packager framework. But, by default it expects you to send a METS file (actually a zipped up METS file) with EPrints DC XML

Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-09 Thread Larry Stone
So, my question is: Can File descriptions for multiple bitstreams be added via the importer? Remember, the Packager plugins are another way to ingest Items -- SWORD, the LNI, and a command-line client (/dspace/bin/packager) can all invoke any of the package ingester plugins. Unfortunately, the

Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-09 Thread Stuart Lewis
On 08/05/2008 21:33, Dorothea Salo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm wondering at the moment is whether SWORD import allows for bitstream descriptions. I hope so, because I am working on a largish import project (300+ items) that needs bitstream descriptions badly. Anybody know for sure? I

Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-09 Thread Dorothea Salo
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Mark Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello George and Dorothea, Good questions! Actually, the good news is that now in 1.5.0 you can add descriptions to your contents file. We enhanced the ItemImporter in 1.5.0 with some modifications that Richard Rodgers

Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-08 Thread Dorothea Salo
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:27 PM, George Kozak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my question is: Can File descriptions for multiple bitstreams be added via the importer? Wouldn't that be nice? Unfortunately, no, not without hacking -- though I think someone's hacked this one; am I right? (The other

Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-08 Thread Shane Beers
Here is a nice post from Dorothea about using the batch importer: http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2008/01/07/the-dspace-batch-importer/ And yes, you can add dublin core metadata through the importing process! Shane -- Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason

Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-08 Thread George Kozak
Thanks, Shane: I don't think Dorothea's articles describes what I want to do. What I am wondering is if I can add descriptions to the bitstreams using the importer. Let me demonstrate with an example: Here is an excerpt of the item display of something that I uploaded : Title: Cornell

Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-08 Thread Dorothea Salo
That's what I don't know if we can do that with import, and I didn't see that mentioned in Dorothea's article. That's right, because the batch importer can't do it. Dorothea -- Dorothea Salo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw University of Wisconsin Rm 218,

Re: [Dspace-tech] File Descriptions in Import

2008-05-08 Thread Mark Diggory
Hello George and Dorothea, Good questions! Actually, the good news is that now in 1.5.0 you can add descriptions to your contents file. We enhanced the ItemImporter in 1.5.0 with some modifications that Richard Rodgers provided to MIT Libraries for our Theses ingest process...