[Dspace-general] books as items

[Elisabeth Kaplan]

Hi Jennifer,

We upload books as items fairly frequently, and sometimes split them as 
multiple files with one record.  There are a few examples here:
http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/49182/browse-title 

We try not to use multiple files, though, because it makes for a 
frustrating search experience --  the user has to open each of the files 
to identify the one(s) that contained the search term. 

When we do split files, the rationale is only to make the file sizes 
more manageable -- occasionally DSpace crashes with file sizes larger 
than about 15000KB -- rather than to make sections like chapters 
intellectually distinct.  Because we use full text indexing, users don't 
really care much about what section of the book they are in. 

Beth



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> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:55:19 -0400
> From: Michele Kimpton <michele at dspace.org>
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] books as items, looking for examples
> To: Jennifer Laherty <jlaherty at indiana.edu>, dspace-general at mit.edu
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> The best example I know of is NYU afghanistan digital library at http://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/ 
> .  I believe they did a fair bit of customization though to make it  
> display.  Michele Kimpton
> On Jun 23, 2009, at 8:31 AM, Laherty, Jennifer wrote:
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>   
>> Hi all,
>> I?m looking for examples of whole books/monographs in repositories  
>> where the book is a single item with multiple bitstreams (such that  
>> the bitstreams represent chapters or parts).  If you have any such  
>> examples in your repository, would you please point me to them?  I  
>> have a pretty good idea of how to treat a book we need to put in our  
>> IR, but would appreciate seeing some other examples.
>>
>> Much thanks,
>> Jennifer Laherty
>>
>> Jennifer Laherty
>> IUScholarWorks Librarian
>> Indiana University Bloomington Libraries
>> Wells Library E159
>> Bloomington, IN  47405
>> 812-855-5609
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