Dear Sir,
Both methods are adequate to serve the purpose. The hanlde goes with the item
and not with the bistream,
so you can easily create items without bitstreams and when the bitstreams are
available you can add them
subsequently.
I would go for the second method that you describe below, i.e. add the items
without bistreams and when the pdfs
are available add them as well. However, in order to do that you have to be
using a new version of Dspace, (1.5, or later),
where in its dspace.cfg you will be able to initially disable the "bitstream
required" flag in order to add the items without bitstreams
and then re-enable it. That option in the dspace.cfg file is the
webui.submit.upload.required parameter, which
when it is set to false, the user that will be inserting a new item, will be
given the option to skip the bitstream addition when she/he reaches this step
in the submission process.
Later on, via the "edit item" menus in the collection administration
environment of the dspace you will be able to add the bistream to the item.
Hope to have helped,
Best regards,
-Fk
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:58:08 -0500
From: Marvin Weaver <mwea...@sju.edu>
Subject: [Dspace-general] Import metadata without items
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I crosslisted this in both general and technical as I don't know which
it really belongs to.
We are planning to develop a Dspace repository for our faculty
publications. Initially, all we will have is the metadata. The plan is
to use grad assistants to acquire pdfs and research the rights for each
article or object and add these to the repository. The metadata is to
be extracted from several databases and imjested into Dspace so we at
least have a complete bibliography in one place.
Should a standard pdf, e.g., "No pdf available at this time" be added as
the bitstream object at time of creation so a handle can be created and
reserved or should the metadata be imported with no object and the
object and handle be created when the object becomes available? Or is
there another way to handle this situation?
Thank you
Marvin Weaver
Saint Joseph's University
Philadelphia, PA 19004
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Filippos Kolovos
Software Systems Analyst & Engineer
M.Sc. (Eng.) in Data Communications
Automation & Networking Department
University of Macedonia Library
Egnatia 156, P.O.Box 1591
540 06 Thessaloniki, Greece
E-Mail: f.kolo...@ieee.org,
filip...@uom.gr
Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/filipposkolovos
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