Hi Jennifer, We upload books as items fairly frequently, and sometimes split them as multiple files with one record. There are a few examples here: http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/49182/browse-title
We try not to use multiple files, though, because it makes for a frustrating search experience -- the user has to open each of the files to identify the one(s) that contained the search term. When we do split files, the rationale is only to make the file sizes more manageable -- occasionally DSpace crashes with file sizes larger than about 15000KB -- rather than to make sections like chapters intellectually distinct. Because we use full text indexing, users don't really care much about what section of the book they are in. Beth [email protected] wrote: > Send Dspace-general mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Dspace-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. ICAL 2009 PROMINENT SPEAKERS (Rajesh Singh) > 2. Re: books as items, looking for examples (Michele Kimpton) > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:55:19 -0400 > From: Michele Kimpton <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] books as items, looking for examples > To: Jennifer Laherty <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > The best example I know of is NYU afghanistan digital library at > http://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/ > . I believe they did a fair bit of customization though to make it > display. Michele Kimpton > On Jun 23, 2009, at 8:31 AM, Laherty, Jennifer wrote: > > >> Hi all, >> I?m looking for examples of whole books/monographs in repositories >> where the book is a single item with multiple bitstreams (such that >> the bitstreams represent chapters or parts). If you have any such >> examples in your repository, would you please point me to them? I >> have a pretty good idea of how to treat a book we need to put in our >> IR, but would appreciate seeing some other examples. >> >> Much thanks, >> Jennifer Laherty >> >> Jennifer Laherty >> IUScholarWorks Librarian >> Indiana University Bloomington Libraries >> Wells Library E159 >> Bloomington, IN 47405 >> 812-855-5609 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dspace-general mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general >> > > -- Elisabeth Kaplan Head, University Archives Co-Director, University Digital Conservancy 218 Elmer L. Andersen Library University of Minnesota 222 - 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis MN 55455 612/626.8191 fax: 612/625.5525 [email protected] http://special.lib.umn.edu/uarch/ http://conservancy.umn.edu _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
