Google Summer of Code 2008 Batch Import

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Title An Add-On to facilitate the existing DSpace Batch Import Procedure

Student Blooma Mohan John

Mentor Stuart Lewis

Abstract

Efficient content acquisition strategies make it easier to import scholarly information into repositories. DSpace supports batch content acquisition through the ItemImport procedure. This procedure requires digital resources to be represented in a Submission Information Package (SIP). The lead time required for preparing this format can be facilitated by encoding document metadata and digital resource location in a spreadsheet. This has been implemented at The Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), The Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of CNRS (INIST-CNRS, France), The University of Calgary Library, National Informatics Centre (India), and The Lanzhou Branch of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China). Few recent requests include The University of Waikato Library, The University of Sydney Library and the NITLE (U.S.A). Although the current implementation on Windows environment looks promising for the user community, there has been considerable request (New York University Library, Raman Research Institute Library (India)etc) to make this development compatible with the UNIX environment. It’s anticipated that this add-on would facilitate content acquisition in DSpace installations.