To those who would like to add content-free items to their repository -- a couple of warnings:
-- if your repository is supposed to support digital preservation activities then beware of content that you don't actually have at hand... if the concern is not making the content public it might be preferable to just limit access to it, rather than exclude it from the repository altogether (assuming you have the right to keep a copy). -- Google and other harvesters, including OAI harvesters like OAIster, are getting grumpy about repositories that include content-free items... they need a quick, reliable way to tell if the item they just grabbed has a retrievable content file attached to it. Since the bitstream URIs are not in the DC metadata it's hard for them to figure this out, but since most DSpace repositories don't allow items without associated bitstreams it hasn't been a problem. But if this trend to support content-free items continues then we'll have to figure out how to flag these records to help the harvesters. MacKenzie Mark Diggory wrote: > We've got a couple patches to the LNI stuff from John Fawcett of > CARET which allow one to create collections/communities via LNI and > Update/Delete Items. I don't see why the PAckager framework couldn't > also be tailored to allow creating items without files. > > I don't see why the Submission UI in Manakin or JSPUI couldn't be > made more flexible in this regard, I'd also add that with > Configurable Submission, this should be a bit of a no-brainer. > > -Mark > > > On Apr 20, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Martin Courtois wrote: > > >> Hi Robert, >> >> We're testing the possibility of using the DSpace simple archive >> format >> and item importer to create a DSpace record without a corresponding >> item. Here's what we're doing: >> >> 1. Create the records in the dublin_core.xml format as described in >> the >> "Item Importer and Exporter/DSpace simple archive format" section of >> the DSpace documentation. >> >> 2. Assemble all the dublin_core.xml files into the DSpace simple >> archive >> format (described in the same section of the documentation), but leave >> out the contents and file portions. So, it might look like this: >> >> archive_directory/ >> item_000/ >> dublin_core.xml >> item_001/ >> dublin_core.xml >> item_002/ >> dublin_core.xml >> etc. >> >> 3. Run the item importer. >> >> We've completed only step 1, so I'm not sure this works. I'll send a >> more complete description once we're further along. >> >> Marty >> >> Martin Courtois >> Information Technology Assistance Center >> 509 Hale Library >> Kansas State University >> Manhattan KS 66506 >> Phone: 785 532-4428 >> Fax: 785 532-3199 >> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Quoting "BEAZLEY, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> >>> Is it possible to add items to DSpace without uploading a file? We >>> have a >>> need to add citations to our repository where we may not have the >>> right to >>> distribute the actual article itself. At the moment we're just using >>> a >>> placeholder text file but we'd like to be able to do away with this >>> if it's >>> at all possible. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> >>> >>> >>> Robert Beazley >>> Application Developer >>> Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation >>> PMB 1, Menai NSW Australia 2234 >>> T +61 2 9717 7791 >>> E [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> -- MacKenzie Smith MIT Libraries ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
