On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Shawn M. Kiewel <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a way to have “external” items in a DSpace repository? I have a > large number of digital objects (our electronic theses and dissertations) > that are already being made available by another site, but we’d like to see > them as objects in our institutional repository. However, we don’t want to > duplicate the digital objects themselves by importing them all into DSpace. > So ultimately, we’d like to include each item as its own record with a link > to the external location instead of a link to the pdf itself.
Hi Shawn, let's analyze your needs first. I'll assume you want a searchable repository of items stored and maintained somewhere else. You want to avoid copying the items because want to keep them in sync - changes should be made only to the source repository. It's logical that if you want a searchable repository, you do have to copy all the metadata. So you do want each of them as a new item in your DSpace and you now have to solve the problem of master-slave replication. There are many ways how you can do this, but in order to chose the best way we have to know how your source repository is able to export the items. E.g. if it supports OAI-PMH, it should be relatively easy. You would set up DSpace to harvest your source repository, which would also take care of updates to existing items. So what software does your source repository use and which export methods does it support? Storing only metadata and links to PDFs stored externally is possible. There are even ways to make them full-text searchable in DSpace, but still accessible only from the source repo. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&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
