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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Sir,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Both methods are adequate to serve the purpose. The
hanlde goes with the item and not with the bistream,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>so you can easily create items without bitstreams
and when the bitstreams are available you can add them</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>subsequently.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would go for the second method that you describe
below, i.e. add the items without bistreams and when the pdfs</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>are available add them as well. However, in order
to do that you have to be using a new version of Dspace, (1.5, or
later),</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>where in its dspace.cfg you will be able to
initially disable the "bitstream required" flag in order to add the items
without bitstreams</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and then re-enable it. That option in the
dspace.cfg file is the <EM>webui.submit.upload.required</EM> parameter,
which</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>when it is set to false, the user that will be
inserting a new item, will be given the option to skip the bitstream addition
when she/he reaches this step</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in the submission process.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Later on, via the "edit item" menus in the
collection administration environment of the dspace you will be able to add the
bistream to the item.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hope to have helped,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best regards,</FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Fk</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><EM>Message: 1<BR>Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:58:08 -0500<BR>From: Marvin
Weaver <</EM><A
href="mailto:mweaver@sju.edu"><EM>mweaver@sju.edu</EM></A><EM>><BR>Subject:
[Dspace-general] Import metadata without items<BR>To: </EM><A
href="mailto:dspace-general@mit.edu"><EM>dspace-general@mit.edu</EM></A><EM>,
</EM><A
href="mailto:dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net"><EM>dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.<WBR>net</EM></A><BR><EM>Message-ID:
<</EM><A
href="mailto:4AFC3090.8040406@sju.edu"><EM>4AFC3090.8040406@sju.edu</EM></A><EM>><BR>Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<BR><BR>I crosslisted this in
both general and technical as I don't know which<BR>it really belongs
to.<BR><BR>We are planning to develop a Dspace repository for our
faculty<BR>publications. Initially, all we will have is the metadata.
The plan is<BR>to use grad assistants to acquire pdfs and research
the rights for each<BR>article or object and add these to the repository.
The metadata is to<BR>be extracted from several databases and
imjested into Dspace so we at<BR>least have a complete bibliography in
one place.<BR><BR>Should a standard pdf, e.g., "No pdf available at this time"
be added as<BR>the bitstream object at time of creation so a handle can be
created and<BR>reserved or should the metadata be imported with no object and
the<BR>object and handle be created when the object becomes available?
Or is<BR>there another way to handle this situation?<BR><BR>Thank
you<BR>Marvin Weaver<BR>Saint Joseph's University<BR>Philadelphia, PA
19004</EM></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- <BR>Filippos Kolovos<BR>Software Systems Analyst
& Engineer<BR>M.Sc. (Eng.) in Data Communications</FONT></DIV>
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1591<BR>540 06 Thessaloniki, Greece</FONT></DIV>
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