BTDImporter

Bice, Nathanael; Brink, Scott; Piorkowski, Adam

BTDImporter

dc.contributor.author	Bice, Nathanael	en
dc.contributor.author	Brink, Scott	en
dc.contributor.author	Piorkowski, Adam	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-05-07T19:58:53Z	en
dc.date.available	2014-05-07T19:58:53Z	en
dc.date.issued	2014-05-07	en
dc.description	This is a project to process bound theses PDF's for importing into the VTechWorks system. The process scans a set of given directories and creates XML files containing metadata for each file in a directory structure set up for importation into the VTechWorks system.	en
dc.description.abstract	The BTD Importer is used to importer Bound Thesis Dissertations to the Electronic Thesis Dissertation Database. The process involves taking a hard copy thesis and scanning it into PDF form. Once in PDF form, the importer script would locate the new PDF and extract its library call number, which is located in the PDF file’s name. Using the call number, the importer script would fetch the metadata of the thesis, such as title and author, by scraping the metadata using AirPAC Classic. The PDF would then be uploaded to the ETD database along with its metadata. The BTD Importer deliverables listed a new importer script that would take new PDFs and look up their metadata using the Sierra APIs to access Addison directly, then taking that metadata and constructing an XML file containing the data. The script would then move the PDF and the new XML file to a new output file structure, which would later be read, by another section of new the importer process. That final section would then upload the PDF and XML file to VTechWorks. The project would require PHP skills which Nathanael had and SQL skills which Adam and Scott had knowledge of, so our group felt like we could complete the project satisfactorily. The project spec also listed the project as being high impact as our work would be used to import roughly 13,000 BTDs into VTechWorks. We completed the project by splitting up the work amongst the group and meeting weekly to discuss milestones and our next goals. We decided to stick with using PHP, as that was what the original importer script was written in. The PHP libraries made it very straightforward to construct an XML file and a directory structure.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Paul Mather	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Zhiwu Xie	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Jie Chen	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/47914	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	PHP	en
dc.subject	XML	en
dc.subject	Shell Script	en
dc.subject	DSpace	en
dc.title	BTDImporter	en
dc.type	Software	en