Tim,

That's a great question, what is the "normal" DSpace documentation?  
There's the presumably now out of date HTML in the source tree, a  
word / pdf document floating around, and then the wiki.....

Scott--


On Jul 21, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Tim Donohue wrote:

> Nice job, Scott (and others who helped)!
>
> Now the obvious question: Can we get this "wrapped up" into the  
> normal DSpace Documentation? :)
>
> - Tim
>
> Scott Phillips wrote:
>> DSpacers,
>> It's a funny thing, the DSpace Batch Import Format (of which there  
>> are  two) are not documented anywhere other than looking at the  
>> source  code. We've run across the situation where a department has  
>> some  content to put into the repository and the resources to  
>> create a batch  import, but just don't know how to do it. To solve  
>> this problem, we've  created a simple hand out to provide to a  
>> programmer or technical  person in another department or group when  
>> they want to develop their  own batch import script. While it  
>> doesn't cover the advanced topics,  like registering bitstreams  
>> etc, nor dose it go over the package  importer, it should solve the  
>> problem for the vast majority of cases  where someone needs to  
>> create a batch import.
>> I thought this might be useful to others out there, the only other   
>> resource on creating batch imports I was able to find is  
>> Dorothea's  blog: http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/2008/01/07/the-dspace-batch- 
>>  importer/.
>> Here is our handout:
>> https://www.tdl.org/documents/DSpaceBatchImportFormat.pdf
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