dSpace and Zotero

hopegreenberg
I've been reading through various forums on related topics and haven;t quite found an answer:

We have several departments that want to ingest citations using Endnote or Zotero, then export those to their dSpace collection. The dSpace collection displays nicely within their templated web site which is a key requirement for this project. However, Zotero is much better for ingesting citations and for using them. I can't quite talk them into just using a Zotero public group because of that pesky key requirement.

I know that moving from a metadata rich Zotero database to the brain-dead Dublin Core metadata used by dSpace is not an easy one, but is there any way to do this. It does not have to be two-way interactivity. The data entry can happen in Zotero. We just (!!) need to move that data into dSppace.

Thanks for any advice!

- Hope
  • adamsmith
    what formats does dspace accept? Couldn't find that quickly.
  • hopegreenberg
    It's really crazy - each item requires a folder that contains a dublin core xml file, a manifest, etc. You can start with a CSV file to contain all that. Here's one description:

    http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CDYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ala.org%2Flita%2Fital%2Ffiles%2F29%2F3%2Fwalsh.pdf&ei=EMKiT9rzB4uk8QTawb2ECQ&usg=AFQjCNGRsA-9F9N5eIy-RXiIFkdHDhIMSA&sig2=SJ8DgyvtN7Lnxs-k2pudtg


    As I re-read these I wonder at the impossibility of all this!
  • adamsmith
    I mean - you can do all that - but you'd have to do what they are doing - i.e. take one of Zotero's outputs and then write a perl (or other) script to put it into a batch-importable format by dspace.
    Since Zotero exports so many standard formats, I find it hard to believe that no one has done that already (for MODS maybe? - it looks like the METS format they import is based on MODS) Maybe ask on the dspace forums - this hardly is Zotero specific.

    Is the Endnote to dspace workflow any different?

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