On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Thomas Ronayne <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Don't do that. This tool worked for me: http://pgdbf.sourceforge.net/ If you're not comfortable with Postgres, just goodle for something like dbf to csv or dbf to Excel. > 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. So it seems like you want to catalogue your personal collection? We mostly hear from institutions here, so usually there's someone they can turn to locally. In your case you may not have a cataloguer easily available. You might want to at least read something about Dublin Core, which is the metadata standard DSpace uses internally. And of course, dspace-general would be a good place to ask for help. In general, once you get your input data in XML, it's quite easy to work with that using XSLT and get it to DSpace. There's even an importer in DSpace that performs the transformation for you (once you provide it with an XSLT stylesheet). 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
