[Dspace-general] Adding items without bitstreams

[Tiago Ferreira]

Hello Halley,

One idea is to use the Batch importer, wich will transform an XML metadata
document with some content files, into an item, as if it was an "in progress
submission". That will save you the trouble of submitting one item at a
time.

Hope this helps
Tiago Ferreira

On 4/23/07, Halley Pacheco de Oliveira <halleypo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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