Hi, Helix84, Nope, no metadata, just a whole lot of physical items. Well, not quite -- there is a WinXP box with FoxBase (you know, obsolete since 1997 and totally unsupported and I'm not even sure how to spell FoxBase let alone have I ever seen it) that I'm going to need to unload to CSV files (I hope), massage with AWK or sed or something then try loading in the development system. If that proves to be impossible then we'll have just start from scratch and get on with it.
At a personal level, though, I have a library of some 2,000 books that are recorded in Tellico, a KDE-based collection manager that records and manages multiple collections (like books, music CD-ROM, videos, wine, coins, stamps, etc.) that I'm thinking about exporting and importing in my personal copy of DSpace. Robby Stevenson, the developer of Tellico, was the guy that suggested DSpace in the first place and he's willing to pitch in on exporting in reasonable format. That'll wait a few days (or weeks) until I get the institute going but it'll be an interesting exercise because all my books have acquired date, cost, vendor, ISBN, LOC numbers, genre, key words, descriptions and cover images, pretty complete (even has Dewey Decimal). Nice application but not multi-user and not DBMS. I'll keep that in mind and thanks. Thomas A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma but that's my story and I'm stickin' to it. On 07/31/2013 11:40 AM, helix84 wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > because it's not clear from your email, my first question is - do you > have all this only as physical items or do you have metadata to go > with it all? > > In the first case, this is not something I can answer here - there is > a whole another occupation that deals with this - the cataloguer. > > In the second case, the important question is what format do you have > the metadata in. We can help you with that on this mailing list. > There's a short summary of the different batch import methods > available in DSpace just to get you started, but please do consult us > before proceeding - there may be always be a better way: > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/EndUserFaq#EndUserFaq-CanIimportcontentintoDSpaceinbatchmode? > > > Regards, > ~~helix84 > > Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
