Tim, Angelo et al. On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 05:29, Tim Donohue wrote: > Angelo, > > While I don't know of anyone working with BibTeX records, we definitely > may be interested in anything you come up with. > > We've recently had a request from some of our early adopters (who use > BibTeX pretty heavily) to provide the capability to just upload a BibTeX > file on the Describe/metadata entry screens of the submission process. > The idea would be that *instead* of manually keying in all the metadata, > we could just attempt to map their BibTeX file (which already has this > metadata) to the appropriate DSpace DC fields.
Using `Bibutils' it is relatively simple to convert BibTeX to MODS. Source code is available so I use a modified version to account for various diacritics absent in the stock version. MODS records can then be mapped directly to DSpace Dublin Core and then bulk loaded -- hack config/crosswalks/mods-submission.xsl at your leisure. Depending on the state of the MODS material the converted data may need some minor adjustment by hand. > Most likely, it would be a long while before we'd have time to implement > such a feature, but I can definitely see the potential there (for those > researchers who use BibTeX). > > Those same researchers have also asked us for a way to "export" BibTeX > for a given document within DSpace, which could also be a nice feature. > So, in general, I can definitely see the potential of allowing upload or > export of BibTeX (and similar) formats. Now this is a desideratum, definitely. I am sure many users would like to see on-the-fly generation from a DSpace record to a BibTeX record, and for that matter to EndNote. As this functionality is not presently available, and as I'm not in a position to produce (or fund) it, I have merely bulk loaded DC and the associated RIS, BibTeX and EndNote data. There are only about 25,000 records presently loaded (about the same number are in prep.) but inode usage is already starting to become significant. On-the-fly export would certainly simplify matters. > Sorry I cannot be of more help. But, I'd definitely encourage you to > share whatever tools you find or build (since I imagine others would be > interested as well). My attempts to make up for this current deficiency in DSpace (1.4) are a little crude, but still, you may be interested in looking at the result. Various screenshots are here: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/sections/repositorium The archive itself -- Indica et Buddhica Repositorium -- lives here: http://repositorium.indica-et-buddhica.org/ You will need to authenticate to access the archive. If you would like access I would ask you to please register first (one of the few ways to protect the servers from over zealous search engines and the like): http://subscriptions.indica-et-buddhica.org/register/ Best regards, Richard MAHONEY -- Richard MAHONEY | internet: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/ Littledene | telephone/telefax (man.): +64 3 312 1699 Bay Road | cellular: +64 27 482 9986 OXFORD, NZ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------- Philologica: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/philologica/ Repositorium: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/repositorium/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
