Hi Grant, This is all a work-in-progress at the moment so there's not a lot of code that's stable enough to share at the moment. I think you've already been in touch with Christiaan who mentioned the submission service we're looking at under APSR. The focus of the current work is this service (webapp) so although we've been passing objects between DSpace and Fedora the code that does the METS transforms and DSpace ingestion/dissemination is highly unstable and has really been used to work out requirements. It was hacked up to show how this could work in the context of a service providing rudimentary routing from an authoring app/system to a repository, be it DSpace, Fedora,ePrints, or something else (see http://pilot.apsr.edu.au/wiki/index.php/Main_Page for more context on the APSR work).
So although I don't have anything that's really useful you can install at the moment, once the project is complete we do intend releasing the code for anyone to use (and we expect to use it in production here and with APSR partners). However we still need to finalise METS profiles and create stable METS ingest/dissemination classes and transforms for the various METS profiles we will be developing. Having said that, what you propose is possible, but you'll find it easier to upgrade to DSpace 1.4.x (since that has the packager plugins). For example you could export your materials as DSpace METS packages and then write a transform (XSL or Java) to go from DSpace METS to Fedora METS and then just ingest them from the Fedora Admin app. For our demos we were using an early version of a Journal METS profile and also a "fake" profile for images, so none of the transforms or DSpace classes would be runnable off-the-shelf for you but I can provide them off-line to you if you'll think they'll be of any use. You should also check out the work that Stuart Lewis has done (http://www.inf.aber.ac.uk/bridge/) as that may give you immediate help. Scott. =============================================== Scott, In perusing the Fez wiki I noticed that you have had some success in importing a Dspace METS object. I have tried to figure out the settings to batch import a Dspace exported collection with the METS folder structure into Fez. That structure, as you probably know, is comprised of folders named with the dspace "handle" and each folder containing the object bitstream (.pdf in my case) and the METS XML file. Do you have any advice as to whether this is doable? and if so a direction for me? We are using the latest Fez trunk build and I noticed that it will parse folders now. Am I doing something wrong or is Fez just not ready. Thanks Grant Johnson Systems Coordinator Robertson Library, University Prince Edward Island ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
