Bulk loading ProQuest ETDs into DSpace

[David Tolmie]

What process are other institutions using for importing their institution's ProQuest ETDs into their DSpace instance?

For the past 12 years or so, we've been receiving ETDs from ProQuest by FTP and on a quarterly basis running a script against them to convert the PQ ETDs into a Simple Archive Format structure for bulk import from the command line. Our script has generally served us well, mapping departments to collections and making sure embargoes are properly set. But, it does have a few bugs… 

I figure before I start trying to knock the rust off of our old code, it would be great to hear what others are doing.

Thanks,

-Dave

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David Tolmie

University of Washington Libraries

[Michael Plate]

Hi Dave,

Am 13.02.25 um 19:10 schrieb David Tolmie:

> What process are other institutions using for importing their
> institution's ProQuest ETDs into their DSpace instance?

[…]

> I figure before I start trying to knock the rust off of our old code, it
> would be great to hear what others are doing.
>

we lately scanned ~3000 student theses for a sort of "cold archiving" to
DSpace nearly the same way.
Theses got cut off the back, scanned, automatically
resized/deskewed/ocr'ed with some basic metadata on them and then send
to DSpace and imported via SAF into workflow for control and setting the
full metadata.

Michael