On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Graham Triggs <[email protected]>wrote:
> Morning,
>
> Yes, I do know more about it ;)
>
> It was developed just prior to the 1.5 release, and I had been targetting
> getting it into that release. However, we were entering a phase of
> stabilising the code at that time, and there was one significant problem
> with it...
>
> The detail of metadata captured by DSpace in a standard configuration is
> not sufficient to reliably produce the export data. In order to make it
> work, I had to implement some rather horrible manipulation of the metadata.
> And even then, it isn't always reliable, as the metadata in typical
> repositories isn't consistent enough [to support the manipulation].
Thanks for the update. I am beginning to realise just what a big issue the
reliability of metadata is. IMO bad or missing data should make it so that
an export is not offered because it is not possible.
So as it stands, this won't be incorporated into DSpace before 2.0. We need
> to develop better working practises for using metadata first.
Fair enough. I don't hear about anyone looking at improving the metadata
situation though. Maybe I'm just not listening in the right places....
> However, this isn't the only option for people that really want to do this.
> If you install the Firefox extension Zotero, then you can save entries to it
> from the embedded RDF data that comes with 1.5.x installations.
Unfortunately, that won't do for me. I happen to use firefox myself but the
software is aimed at Joe Public, who will be using Internet Exploiter. :-(
> Once you have the data in Zotero, it's then possible to manipulate it if
> necessary, and export from there to a number of different formats, including
> RIS, Refer and BibTex.
>
> G
--
Regards,
Andrew M.
http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk
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