[Dspace-general] Adding items without bitstreams

[Luong T]

Aston University is running both WebCT and Blackboard as our VLE
systems.
 
We are hoping to batch migrate learning content to a repository. i.e.
DSpace
 
I would be grateful if you could confirm whether DSpace currently accept
MIS Packages from the above VLEs ???
 
Kind regards
Tai

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From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu
[mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Tiago Ferreira
Sent: 24 April 2007 15:07
To: Halley Pacheco de Oliveira
Cc: Shawna Sadler; dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Adding items without bitstreams


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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