On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Richard, Joel M wrote: > To summarize, I have an XLS spreadsheet and about 1200 MP3 files >(representing 600 items) that need to be brought into DSpace and doing >this by hand is not something we wish to seriously consider. :) If we can >mass-upload via DAV then we will still need to go back and add authors, >descriptions, abstracts, etc by hand, right? > Any suggestions? :)
For dsp...@cambridge, we developed a simple tool that can take a spreadsheet with metadata in a well-defined format, and the associated files, and transform it into a DSpace (commandline) batch importer structure. (This is in contrast with the 1.6 spreadsheet functionality, which goes via the web front-end and only deals with metadata.) For an idea of the spreadsheet structure, see the bottom section of http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/repository/deposit_guide/batch_upload_services.html ("The spreadsheet metadata importer tool"). We're happy to share the code with the community if there's interest, and I can email you a copy directly if you want. (As for your remarks regarding SOAP -- we also run a SOAP server for our users that basically exposes a lot of the DSpace API as a web service, including browse etc. However, that code is highly custom for our local set-up and unfortunately we don't have the resources to make it fit for distribution at the moment.) Best regards, -- Tom De Mulder <[email protected]> - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 19/03/2010 : The Moon is Waxing Crescent (21% of Full) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
