> > Huh? What is this good for? What is wrong with the existing > > importer? > > The importer itself seems to work fine. Its the DSpace web forms that lack > the customization and flexibility that we need. And implementing a direct > import from my own web forms would be prettier than saving the collected > data on server and then running it through importer.
I recommend looking into having your PHP use the DSpace LNI and METS SIP package ingester to submit the content. It will be much more stable than the DB or even the Java API, probably easier to get to from PHP as well. See http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/LightweightNetworkInterface for the *future* 1.5 version, and http://web.mit.edu/lcs/www/lni/ for the OLD (up to 1.4, patchable) version. The PAWN project -- see http://adaptwiki.umiacs.umd.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/PAWN mentions a similar independent SIP generator. Maybe you can even leverage some of its code. I don't know any more about PAWN than the URL, just ran across it in the course of research on something else. -- Larry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
