[Dspace-general] Import metadata without items

[Claudia Jürgen]

Hello Marvin,

you can import items without bitstreams using the default Item Importer, 
just create an empty contents file per item, your import structure would 
look like this
[path]/[itemDirectory1]/dublin-core.xml
[path]/[itemDirectory1]/contents
[path]/[itemDirectory2]/dublin-core.xml
[path]/[itemDirectory2]/contents
...
[path]/[itemDirectoryn]/dublin-core.xml
[path]/[itemDirectoryn]/contents
[path]/[itemDirectoryn]/dublin-core.xml
[path]/[itemDirectoryn]/contents

You need no dummy pdf. An item without attached bitstreams got a note 
"There are no files associated with this item." in the display, e.g.:
https://eldorado.tu-dortmund.de/handle/2003/25020

Whether to allow items without bitstreams during the UI based submission 
is configurable with the dspace.cfg parameter webui.submit.upload.required


Hope that helps

Claudia Jürgen


Marvin Weaver schrieb:
> I crosslisted this in both general and technical as I don't know which 
> it really belongs to.
> 
> We are planning to develop a Dspace repository for our faculty 
> publications.  Initially, all we will have is the metadata.  The plan is 
> to use grad assistants to acquire pdfs and  research the rights for each 
> article or object and add these to the repository.  The metadata is to 
> be extracted from several databases and  imjested into Dspace so we at 
> least have a complete bibliography in one place.
> 
> Should a standard pdf, e.g., "No pdf available at this time" be added as 
> the bitstream object at time of creation so a handle can be created and 
> reserved or should the metadata be imported with no object and the 
> object and handle be created when the object becomes available?  Or is 
> there another way to handle this situation?
> 
> Thank you
> Marvin Weaver
> Saint Joseph's University
> Philadelphia, PA 19004
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