On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 12:47:48AM -0700, M P wrote:
> I am having difficulty incorporating our thesis holdings into DSpace when 
> harvesting from our existing Koha ILS catalogue.  I am a little unsure 
> about the best way to go about it, as it seems DSpace has several different 
> ways of incorporating items.
> 
> Here is what we have:
> 
>    1. All theses catalogued in Koha
>    2. Thesis holdings are converted to DublinCore and available via OAI-PMH 
>    (https://library.sats.ac.za/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=ListSets)
>    3. DSpace successfully harvests the data from the above OAI server
>    4. Items appear as they should in each of the configured collections (
>    
> https://research.sats.ac.za/communities/5a2b008a-e0ec-4470-81a2-3f2c8d1277c0)
>    5. The URL to the actual thesis shows up in DSpace as dc.identifier in 
>    the Full Item Page.  These urls refer to the PDF of the actual thesis 
>    stored in S3. (e.g. 
>    
> https://research.sats.ac.za/items/cb8ff81c-3a33-450f-a9a5-39101afeda70/full)
> 
> MY QUESTION:
> What is the best way to incorporate the stored thesis PDF into Dspace? Do I 
> harvest with ORE, do I "register", do I import? I am unclear on how these 
> differ and what the end result would be.  I would like for the link to the 
> thesis to show on the primary item page and for the thesis to be indexed by 
> solr so we can take advantage of the full-text indexing.  Furthermore, if 
> the url to the thesis is already available via the metadata, why can't 
> Dspace simply incorporate that as part of the harvest process?

Just brainstorming:

I've never tried ORE so I can't comment on that, except to say that it
sounds like the simplest approach if it works for you.

To import an item, you need to make up a complete ingestion packet
with metadata and content, and provide it to DSpace.  This sounds
duplicative, if you have already harvested the metadata.

Registration is usually used with very large files which are already
available on the server.  Otherwise it is like import.  It just avoids
the copying of content into the assetstore.

Having your content in an S3 store raises an intriguing possibility
that I don't think is fully implemented.  DSpace does have code to
talk to S3, but I don't think this was ever incorporated into the
registration code.  Whether there is any value in this idea depends on
your interest in creating some glue code and whether you want DSpace
to have an independent copy of the content.

-- 
Mark H. Wood
Lead Technology Analyst

University Library
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
755 W. Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-274-0749
www.ulib.iupui.edu

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