<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This looks very interesting... I can't wait to check it out! Thanks much.<div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit
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lor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Shane Beers</div><div>Digital Repository Services Librarian</div><div>George Mason University</div><div><a href="mailto:sbeers@gmu.edu">sbeers@gmu.edu</a></div><div><a href="http://mars.gmu.edu">http://mars.gmu.edu</a></div><div>703-993-3742</div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Jul 28, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Thomas A McGee wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Speaking of
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ssible, I've put together an Excel spreadsheet that does a lot of the preparatory work. It was inspired by the work the people at </font><font size="2" color="#000080" face="Arial">Nanyang Technological University</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> 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. </font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">A user will build their directory structure and populate it with the bitstreams:</font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">parent directory</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">>>subdirectory</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">>>>>bitstream1.jpg</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">>>>>bitstream2.jpg</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">>>subdirectory</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">>>>>bitstream3.pdf</font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">And then fill
out the
preadsheet corresponding to each subdirectory. Run the macro, and the dublin_core.xml and contents files are generated and put into their corresponding subdirectories. </font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">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. </font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">You still have to use the command-line tool; this just prepares the necessary directory. </font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><br> _____________________<br> Tom McGee<br> Seton Hall University TLTC<br> 973 761 9000 x5021</font>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge<br>Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win g
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