Hello all, It's been a long time coming, but I've finally received approval to release the code behind my poster from Open Repositories 2007 entitled "Format Conversion in DSpace using OpenOffice.org":
OR2007 poster - http://hdl.handle.net/2142/209 For those who haven't heard of this: I've created a new OpenOffice.org Media Filter for DSpace, which uses some basic "wrapper" code I built around the OpenOffice.org API to perform automated format conversions of content within DSpace. (Note: the basic "wrapper" code which I'm calling the "OpenOffice.org Converter" is not even reliant on DSpace. It can be used standalone or even be integrated with another repository software) At a basic level it allows you to automatically convert FROM: - Word, Powerpoint, Excel - OpenOffice.org formats TO: - OpenOffice.org formats - PDF - Comma Separated Values (CSV) - Rich Text Format (RTF) - Plain Text - DocBook XML etc.. Currently, this code is being released under the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.php). It is released as-is, and I cannot promise support. (But, I will attempt to help you out with major problems, time-permitting.) My hope is that in the future some or all of this code can be distributed within DSpace software (or at the very least, alongside DSpace as an official "add-on"). However, this idea must first obtain approval amongst the other DSpace Committers :) Currently, I will admit, the installation takes a *little bit* of technical know-how. Especially, since it requires the installation of an existing DSpace patch (SF# 1589429): http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1589429&group_id=19984&atid=319984 In any case, the full installation instructions, along with code downloads are now freely accessible from our IDEALS Wiki at: https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/wiki/bin/view/IDEALS/OpenOfficeConvert I believe everything is now fully documented up there and relatively straightforward! But, if you run into anything confusing or that doesn't work, please send me an email, and I'll try to get it fixed as soon as I can! Have fun! - Tim -- ======================================== Tim Donohue Research Programmer, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) 135 Grainger Engineering Library University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.ideals.uiuc.edu phone: (217) 333-4648 fax: (217) 244-7764 ======================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
