Thanks to Your and Blooma's fast responses. (I cc it to the list, because I think it is for interest for more people.)
Jayan Chirayath Kurian schrieb: > Hello Robert, > > I hope Blooma might have sent the source code as well documentation for > the above program. It's a stand alone application and once folders are > generated the dspace batch import facility is used to ingest items. > Currently program works on windows and we are trying with Linux > compatibility. Indeed we run DSpace in a Linux environment (RedHat EL), but a WinXP box is also available to work with Your tool. So there is no problem for us at this point. > I think adding more files won't be an issue although > current program works with a single file. I would suggest to allow multiple entries in the ResourceLocation-field, separated by ';' for example. > Regarding namespaces I hope > the program can be customized. This is a crucial point for us, since we use several standardised metadata sets in our old application. Only quite a few fields are plain 'dc'. > Please feel free to ask if you find > difficulty in installing the program. Once the default program works at > your side we can start customizing according to your requirements. As far as I see the problem of multiple namespaces is not solvable by Your tool. The question is weather the ItemImport can handle this. The format documentation of the dublin_core.xml file shows no 'schema'- or 'namespace'- attribute for the <dcvalue>-tags. Do You know more then the documentation? > By the way if your installation is Linux based please run the program on a > normal windows machine and transfer files to your dspace server and > issue the ItemImport batch import command. > > Current project progress > http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code_2008_Batch_Import > > Cheers! Jayan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Roggenbuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:17 PM > To: Jayan Chirayath Kurian > Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Easy way to Import Metadata from Excel into > DSpace > > Hello Jayan, > > can You give me some documentation about You import tool? will it work > with DSpace 1.5? Can it add more the 1 file to a metadata set? Can it > handle other namespaces / schemas then just 'dc'? > > Greetings > > Robert > > --- > > Jayan Chirayath Kurian schrieb: >> Hello, >> >> >> >> If you have metadata (title, author, ABSTRACT, date, department, > rights) >> stored in an Excel sheet and want to import metadata and corresponding >> record/file into DSpace, we have an improved version of our program to >> share. Please feel free to contact me if you want to use this for > batch >> importing items into DSpace. Recently we used this for our test import >> of items at http://repository.ntu.edu.sg/ >> >> >> >> Advantages:- >> >> (1) It generates sequential names to metadata folders > corresponding >> to records in the excel sheet. It would be easy to identify and > rectify >> errors incase the import halts at some special characters. >> >> (2) A general set of metadata can be defined and those not > required >> can be left blank in the excel sheet. >> >> >> >> Cheers! >> >> Jayan >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
