Re: [Dspace-tech] Adding items without bitstreams
Hi Robert, We're testing the possibility of using the DSpace simple archive format and item importer to create a DSpace record without a corresponding item. Here's what we're doing: 1. Create the records in the dublin_core.xml format as described in the "Item Importer and Exporter/DSpace simple archive format" section of the DSpace documentation. 2. Assemble all the dublin_core.xml files into the DSpace simple archive format (described in the same section of the documentation), but leave out the contents and file portions. So, it might look like this: archive_directory/ item_000/ dublin_core.xml item_001/ dublin_core.xml item_002/ dublin_core.xml etc. 3. Run the item importer. We've completed only step 1, so I'm not sure this works. I'll send a more complete description once we're further along. Marty Martin Courtois Information Technology Assistance Center 509 Hale Library Kansas State University Manhattan KS 66506 Phone: 785 532-4428 Fax: 785 532-3199 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting "BEAZLEY, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello all, > > > > Is it possible to add items to DSpace without uploading a file? We > have a > need to add citations to our repository where we may not have the > right to > distribute the actual article itself. At the moment we're just using > a > placeholder text file but we'd like to be able to do away with this > if it's > at all possible. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Robert Beazley > Application Developer > Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation > PMB 1, Menai NSW Australia 2234 > T +61 2 9717 7791 > E [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Adding items without bitstreams
Hi MacKenzie, Thanks for raising these important points about the potential dangers of creating content-free items. In our case, we'd like to explore the possibility of importing citations from commercial databases (PsycInfo, ERIC, Agricola, etc.) via the Item Importer. From that point, we would attempt to obtain the content (in most cases, the PDF of the published article) and add it to the existing item. Based on some initial success reported by Eric Morgan at University of Notre Dame (http://www.library.nd.edu/idr/features.shtml), we hope to explore this approach as a way to capture faculty publications without requiring faculty to self-submit. So, the "content-free" state would be a temporary one, and I suppose we could even do this in a test instance and move to production only those items that have content. Marty Martin Courtois Information Technology Assistance Center 509 Hale Library Kansas State University Manhattan KS 66506 Phone: 785 532-4428 Fax: 785 532-3199 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting MacKenzie Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To those who would like to add content-free items to their repository > -- > a couple of warnings: > > -- if your repository is supposed to support digital preservation > activities then beware of content that you don't actually have at > hand... if the concern is not making the content public it might be > preferable to just limit access to it, rather than exclude it from > the > repository altogether (assuming you have the right to keep a copy). > > -- Google and other harvesters, including OAI harvesters like > OAIster, > are getting grumpy about repositories that include content-free > items... > they need a quick, reliable way to tell if the item they just grabbed > has a retrievable content file attached to it. Since the bitstream > URIs > are not in the DC metadata it's hard for them to figure this out, but > since most DSpace repositories don't allow items without associated > bitstreams it hasn't been a problem. But if this trend to support > content-free items continues then we'll have to figure out how to > flag > these records to help the harvesters. > > MacKenzie > > Mark Diggory wrote: > > We've got a couple patches to the LNI stuff from John Fawcett of > > CARET which allow one to create collections/communities via LNI and > > Update/Delete Items. I don't see why the PAckager framework > couldn't > > also be tailored to allow creating items without files. > > > > I don't see why the Submission UI in Manakin or JSPUI couldn't be > > made more flexible in this regard, I'd also add that with > > Configurable Submission, this should be a bit of a no-brainer. > > > > -Mark > > > > > > On Apr 20, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Martin Courtois wrote: > > > > > >> Hi Robert, > >> > >> We're testing the possibility of using the DSpace simple archive > >> format > >> and item importer to create a DSpace record without a > corresponding > >> item. Here's what we're doing: > >> > >> 1. Create the records in the dublin_core.xml format as described > in > >> the > >> "Item Importer and Exporter/DSpace simple archive format" section > of > >> the DSpace documentation. > >> > >> 2. Assemble all the dublin_core.xml files into the DSpace simple > >> archive > >> format (described in the same section of the documentation), but > leave > >> out the contents and file portions. So, it might look like this: > >> > >> archive_directory/ > >>item_000/ > >> dublin_core.xml > >>item_001/ > >> dublin_core.xml > >>item_002/ > >> dublin_core.xml > >> etc. > >> > >> 3. Run the item importer. > >> > >> We've completed only step 1, so I'm not sure this works. I'll > send a > >> more complete description once we're further along. > >> > >> Marty > >> > >> Martin Courtois > >> Information Technology Assistance Center > >> 509 Hale Library > >> Kansas State University > >> Manhattan KS 66506 > >> Phone: 785 532-4428 > >> Fax: 785 532-3199 > >> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> Quoting "BEAZLEY, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >>> Hello all, > >>> > >>> > >>> Is it possible to add items to DSpace without uploading a file? > We > >>> have a > >>> need to add citatio
Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] seeking sample records & suggestions for Portable Citations (Summer of Code)
Hi Jodi, Thanks for letting us know about your project. In terms of importing citations into DSpace, I'd like to see a tool that could be configured to "crosswalk" from one format to another. For example, let's say I have citations in RIS format and I want to transform them into the DC scheme used in our local DSpace. It would be great if I could fill in the "source" and "target" fields on a grid, like this: Source Target Format Format A1 => contributor.author TI => citation.atitle JF => citation.jtitle VL => citation.volume AB => description.abstract etc. So, whatever text is in the "A1" field(s) in the RIS citation would be added to the "contributor.author" field(s) in the DSpace record. Managers would likely be using DSpace's Item Importer to import citations in batches, so it would be useful if the Portable Citations tool could format citations in the required dublin_core.xml file format (See the "Item Importer and Exporter" section of the DSpace System Documentation: http://dspace.org/technology/system-docs/application.html#itemimporter). I've put a few sample citations in the RIS format from RefWorks at the bottom of this message. I think this would be one of the most useful formats, although it would be even better if Portable Citations could transform citations directly from the database (PsycInfo, Agricola, ERIC, etc.), but I realize this would be much harder to do. I hope this helps, but please let me know if I haven't made things clear. Marty Martin Courtois Information Technology Assistance Center 509 Hale Library Kansas State University Manhattan KS 66506 Phone: 785 532-4428 Fax: 785 532-3199 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sample citations exported from RefWorks in RIS format TY - CONF ID - 3 A1 - Robert Tansley A1 - Mick Bass A1 - MacKenzie Smith T1 - DSpace as an Open Archival Information System: current status and future directions Y1 - 2003 Y2 - August 17-22 SP - 446 EP - 460 T2 - Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 7th European Conference, ECDL 2003 VL - Trondheim, Norway PB - Springer-Verlag CY - Heidelberg A3 - Anonymous T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2769 AV - Paper; DSpace Articles M1 - Conference Proceedings ER - TY - JOUR ID - 1 A1 - Silverstone,Ariel T1 - Toward a Virus-Free Campus Y1 - 2004 VL - 27 IS - 3 SP - 50 EP - 52 KW - computer security KW - computer viruses AB - Temple University's IT staff created a campus-wide culture of awareness to mitigate security threats. N1 - Discussed at IT Journal Club meeting, A3 - Anonymous JF - Educause Quarterly UR - http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm04/eqm043.asp M1 - Journal ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4 A1 - Smith,M. A1 - Bass,M. A1 - McClellan,G. A1 - Tansley,R. A1 - Barton,M. A1 - Branschofsky,M. A1 - Stuve,D. A1 - Walker,J. H. T1 - DSpace: An open source dynamic digital repository Y1 - 2003 Y2 - January VL - 9 IS - 1 KW - DSpace AB - For the past two years the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs have been collaborating on the development of an open source system called DSpace that functions as a repository for the digital research and educational material produced by members of a research university or organization. Running such an institutionally-based, multidisciplinary repository is increasingly seen as a natural role for the libraries and archives of research and teaching organizations. As their constituents produce increasing amounts of original material in digital formatsmuch of which is never published by traditional meansthe repository becomes vital to protect the significant assets of the institution and its faculty. The first part of this article describes the DSpace system including its functionality and design, and its approach to various problems in digital library and archives design. The second part discusses the implementation of DSpace at MIT, plans for federating the system, and issues of sustainability. A3 - Anonymous AV - Paper; DSpace Articles JF - DLib M1 - Journal ER - TY - JOUR ID - 6 A1 - Surratt,B. E. A1 - Hill,D. T1 - ETD2MARC: A semiautomated workflow for cataloging electronic theses and dissertations Y1 - 2004 VL - 28 SP - 205 EP - 223 KW - Electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) KW - MARC KW - Perl KW - Connexion AB - This article describes a semiautomated workflow for cataloging electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). A perl script is used to query the metadata in an institutional ETD database and create a machine-readable cataloging (MARC) record for each ETD. The MARC records are imported into the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) WorldCat database using the Connexion service, proofread, updated, and exported to the local catalog. Topics discussed are the cataloging decisions that were made prior
[Dspace-tech] Export Metadata Produces Duplicate Fields
When I use the Export Metadata feature from the admin interface in DSpace Manakin 1.8.2, I'm seeing these two fields in the .csv file: dc.contributor.author dc.contributor.author[ ] Both fields are populated, and the number of entries seem to be evenly split between the two fields. If one of the dc.contributor.author fields is populated, then the other is blank. Any idea why this occurring? Is it ok to combine values into a single field? Thanks for your help, Marty Martin Courtois iTAC/Scholarly Communications & Publishing 212 Hale Library Kansas State University Manhattan KS 66502 785 532 4428 court...@ksu.edu -- Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
