Google Summer of Code 2007 Citations--Examples of Import Procedures

This page is part of the Google+Summer+of+Code+2007 project on Portable Citations. (Up to main project page.)

This is a list of import methods encountered in discussions of DSpace. Please feel free to add your own import procedures to help me understand the variations possible.

• Batch importer. Transforms an XML metadata document with some content files, into an item, as if it were an "in progress submission".

• Import from archival catalog (University of Calgary)

• Smithsonian
  • export Access to XML
  • do some'find-and-replace' to change the fields to dublin_core format
  • replace the record header, etc with the proper tags
  • split the file into individual records

• Xalan (XSLT 1.0)--other methods mentioned in Christophe's dspace-devel conversation May 6, 2007.

• Import metadata from Excel to create the archive folder structure acceptable for DSpace batch import
  Author: Jayan C Kurian, SCI, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• php script allowing easy import of metadata and files via CSV files

Author: Mika University of Calgary

Dependencies: PHP (tested with 4 and 5, old versions may work) and wget or similar utilities

• Batch process from University of Notre Dame

Author: Eric Morgan

Process:

• search bibliographic indexes for things written by local authors.

• save records to EndNote, a bibliographic citation manager.

• export the EndNote content as an XML file, parse the file, and save the results in directories importable by DSpace.

• After importing, cache the content and provide browsable interfaces against it.