[Dspace-general] Adding items without bitstreams

[Halley Pacheco de Oliveira]

Hi Shawna,

I have a problem that seems to be the similar to yours, a collection
of more than 10.000 municipal legislation projects, dated from 1977
until now, to be stored in DSpace with full text search, most of all
only in paper. I don't have a solution, and would appreciate if
someone could give me a hint.

Thank you,
Halley

2007/4/23, Shawna Sadler <ssadler at ucalgary.ca>:
> Hi MacKenzie,
> I like your idea about flagging records with or without attached files.
>
> We have given up on faculty uploading their own items, everyone has
> admitted that this process simply won't happen. So it has fallen on the
> Library to populate our local repository and the most efficient workflow
> has been importing files into DSpace and then Library support staff
> adding the fulltext files to the records after they have been digitized.
> This is less time consuming and really, who wants to do data entry.
>
> This process has been very efficient for us, but I have to admit, the
> harvesters and search engines have not consistently found the fulltext
> files after they have been added. I think your idea of flagging records
> would facilitate the find-ability of the newly added files.
>
> It would also help if importing records into DSpace was less work, I'm
> hoping the Summer Google student working on importing/exporting files
> from Bibliographic software will facilitate this process.
>
> Anyone agree or disagree with me?
> Shawna
>
> --
> Shawna Sadler
> Coordinator, Digital Initiatives
> Libraries and Cultural Resources
> University of Calgary
> Phone: (403) 220-3739
> Email: ssadler at ucalgary.ca