Background

Introduction

This program was written to assist with my work in cataloguing and uploading a collection of magazines into our DSpace database. I found working with the web interface we were using laborious and inefficient, and the OCR scan very helpful, though occasionally faulty.

Uploading digitized items from a given collection into the Digital Archive according to the protocol that existed prior to this, required adding each item individually using the web interface. This could be done with or without the help of an editable template.

Previous Methods

Both options introduced the potential for a lot of errors, took a lot of time, and failed to leverage the OCR sufficiently.

In the first instance, I had to input each name manually, and involved constantly re-typing names.

Using the template similarly required remembering to remove a list of contributors that were not relevant issue to issue.

Alternative Protocol

My alternative protocol suggests that very basic data (e.g. contributors and article titles) be inputted into a text file according to some basic heading types in bulk (all issues in a given collection).