Hi Thomas, the first thing you'll want to do is to define which metadata fields you'll be using and which ones of those are missing from the default metadata registry in DSpace. You should add all those you'll be using. Don't worry too much to get it right the first time - you can change it at any later time.
Second thing is actually adding an item. First try it with one book - use the submission process. Log in as admin and go to a collection (communities cannot contain items, they contain only subcommunities and collections). You should see a link to start submission there. The submission process is several pages long, but only a few fields are required. Once you have tried out adding a single item, you'll see that it's unpractical to use for thousands of them. So you'll choose one of tha available batch import methods [1]. I'd recommend you to use Batch Metadata Editing (typing all metadata into a single CSV file), because it's easiest. The drawback is that it works only with metadata, and you'll have to upload bitstreams separately. To prepare a "template" CSV file, do a CSV export first (after adding metadata fields as I wrote above). You'll see that column headers are metadata field names. To add a new item, put "+" into the "id" column. The "collection" column is mandatory and I strongly recommend you to also fill in at least the dc.title field (otherwise some weird situations can occur). [1] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/EndUserFaq#EndUserFaq-CanIimportcontentintoDSpaceinbatchmode? Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
