On 10.10.2013 11:18, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Hi!
Now, I got some questions on how to proceed - I’m missing "Setup" documentation between "Installation" and "Administration". * How do I get rid of the demo data?
inveniocfg --remove-demo-records inveniocfg --drop-demo-site cf. inveniocfg --help
Should I just delete the database and install anew or is there a better way?
This works. You could then just leave out loading them. What we actually did when we started out was to write a bash-script that does all necessary steps in sequence, so we could just delete everything all the time and be at a workign point 0 in a couple of minutes.
* I’ll get my metadata in Excel files.
Urgh. Either you have totally simple stuff (only books that all have an author and never an issuing institution and so on) or you might end up in trouble. At least xls is not suitable for /real/ bibliographic data. Think of several authors, differences in fields by document type and stuff.
As far as I understand BibConvert docs, there seems no way to process CSV files directly.
It is just not suitable for bibliographic data ;) How do you map a repeatable field? The simplest one that comes to mind are authors. (BibTeX or friends are not an option? Would at least handle the simple specialities correctly. Editing via Jabref e.g. is quite easy...)
Is that right or can you hint me on a sample? Otherwise I’d write some Python script to convert our tables to MARC XML - or would you go via some other text format to convert via BibConvert?
MarcXML is perfect for this. I'd also resort to python in this case as it might be more flexible in the end anyway. We also droped bibconvert in our websubmit workflow and resorted to python there as well as it is easier to handle these, did I mention, specialities? ;) Basically, you could write websubmit-style functions for this and later on hook up with websubmit if needs be. Or check out next/-branch and webdeposit trying to be compatible with that from the start.
* I guess I still don’t understand some basic concepts of Invenio, e.g. what modules and stuff I must set up all in all - I was playing with WebSubmit and trying to set up all the fields that we need, but since we’ll batch upload, I don’t know if that makes sense at all.
Depends. If you can load parts of your data to websubmit and then pass it on to invenio it might help to get better data. We do this semiautomatic ingesting for e.g. journal articles via DIO, books via ISBN and stuff like that.
So, if we got MARC XML (via BibConvert or my own script), do I need to setup any field mappings or the like?
You could probably ignore it there. However I'm not sure that your xls ingest is a good idea if you have several document types etc. Might be that you end up in having some sort of websubmit in the end or at least the wish to have it for corrections. Depending on complexity websubmit could be easier to handle than direct bibedit. (Innerrecordlinking in bibedit is a bit pita, complex structured fields require some work.) BTW: The upcoming Invenio User Group meeting might be of interest to you. http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=258575 -- Kind regards, Alexander Wagner Subject Specialist Central Library 52425 Juelich mail : [email protected] phone: +49 2461 61-1586 Fax : +49 2461 61-6103 www.fz-juelich.de/zb/DE/zb-fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
