Re: [Dspace-tech] Excel Batch Import Tool
Hello Tom, Congratulations on developing an Excel based metadata generation program and nice to hear that our work was useful. Further details are accessible at http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code_2008_Batch_Import If you wish please feel free to create a sub-section on the above Wiki so that users can choose according to their preference. Cheers! Jayan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Thomas A McGee Sent: Mon 7/28/2008 9:32 PM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Dspace-tech] Excel Batch Import Tool Speaking of making batch-importing more accessible, I've put together an Excel spreadsheet that does a lot of the preparatory work. It was inspired by the work the people at Nanyang Technological University had done, using a spreadsheet that held the metadata and running it as a data source through a Java application. My addition is to make it work completely within Excel. A user will build their directory structure and populate it with the bitstreams: parent directory subdirectory bitstream1.jpg bitstream2.jpg subdirectory bitstream3.pdf And then fill out the columns and rows of the spreadsheet corresponding to each subdirectory. Run the macro, and the dublin_core.xml and contents files are generated and put into their corresponding subdirectories. If you'd like to take a look at this work-in-progress drop me a line and I'll send it to you. I've only tested in on Excel 2003 running on XP. There are still a lot of refinements I want to do to make it easier, and also function things like handling bundles. You still have to use the command-line tool; this just prepares the necessary directory. _ Tom McGee Seton Hall University TLTC 973 761 9000 x5021 - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] Excel Batch Import Tool
This looks very interesting... I can't wait to check it out! Thanks much. Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 On Jul 28, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Thomas A McGee wrote: Speaking of making batch-importing more accessible, I've put together an Excel spreadsheet that does a lot of the preparatory work. It was inspired by the work the people at Nanyang Technological University had done, using a spreadsheet that held the metadata and running it as a data source through a Java application. My addition is to make it work completely within Excel. A user will build their directory structure and populate it with the bitstreams: parent directory subdirectory bitstream1.jpg bitstream2.jpg subdirectory bitstream3.pdf And then fill out the columns and rows of the spreadsheet corresponding to each subdirectory. Run the macro, and the dublin_core.xml and contents files are generated and put into their corresponding subdirectories. If you'd like to take a look at this work-in-progress drop me a line and I'll send it to you. I've only tested in on Excel 2003 running on XP. There are still a lot of refinements I want to do to make it easier, and also function things like handling bundles. You still have to use the command-line tool; this just prepares the necessary directory. _ Tom McGee Seton Hall University TLTC 973 761 9000 x5021 - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
