At scholarworks.iupui.edu the communities have each their own champion(s) in various academic departments. They establish their own policies and standards, and I honestly don't know what their workflows look like.
When we have someone who wants to load big batches, I ask for a CSV in a particular structure. Usually the submitter uses a spreadsheet to compose the metadata and then exports the CSV -- again, that part is up to the submitter, though we suggest things we've seen work well before. I run a little Perl script to create an item-importer batch, and then a little shell script to drive the item importer (so I don't have to remember all the options). I always do a test run of the import, because people are ingenious at thinking of ways to code metadata that will result in invalid XML despite my Perl script's best efforts to catch them. :-/ I may just fix something obvious, or request interpretation from the submitter. Right now I'm receiving batches of scanned journal back-issues, one volume per batch, each issue packed into a single PDF, about once a week. On other projects we've received individual batches of 100-200 items. After the metadata cleanup it seems to work well enough that I haven't spent any more time looking for improvements. (I'm always happy to learn of better ways, though.) -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart.
pgpSkgUJ5iXxe.pgp
Description: PGP signature
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar
_______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
