Allen is correct; this is how I enter most documents. I've been using an Excel document with macros that export to XML, that was graciously provided by Tom McGhee at Seton Hall. I can forward this to you directly if you are interested.
More information about batch import available from: The DSpace Course - look for "import and export" - http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2160/615 >From Texas Digital Library - >http://www.tdl.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/DSpaceBatchImportFormat.pdf We are using DSpace 1.5.2, XMLUI (Manakin) and the batch import works pretty well for us. By the way, The DSpace Course assumes you are using Linux; we are using Windows and discovered the commands needed to be slightly altered to fit the Windows programming format... so just a heads up if you're not on Linux. Hope this helps! Alice Platt Digital Initiatives Librarian Shapiro Library Southern New Hampshire University 2500 North River Rd Manchester, NH 03106 USA Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:23:28 -0600 From: Keith Michael Pickett <[email protected]> Subject: [Dspace-general] New to DSpace To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Greetings! This is my first post to this list. We have recently purchased a large storage server to run DSpace on. The idea is to make our collection of historical court archives available to the world. Right now, everything is scanned with metadata in tab-delimited text files. Can anyone suggest the best way to enter a LOT of items quickly with metadata? Thanks! Keith M. Pickett, MLIS Digital Initiatives Librarian Biology Subject Specialist Chair, LOUISiana Digital Library Committee Earl K. Long Library, Room 319 University of New Orleans 2000 Lakeshore Drive New Orleans, LA 70148 (504) 280-3273 http://library.uno.edu/aboutus/staff/keith.cfm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:18:05 +0800 From: Allen Lam <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] New to DSpace To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi Keith, The best way is to batch import, using the shell script command "import" in dspace/bin. Details see the dspace manual. Now your metadata is in tsv. You need some programming effort to transform them into dublin_core.xml. There are existing converters for creating the xml files. They may or may not suit your special needs. Sometimes writing your own converter is faster than search-and-test for existing programs. Best, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk ** Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
