[sagreenstone] EDITING METADATA SETS

[John Rose]

Dear Gilchriste,

I am taking the liberty of copying this reply to 
the Southern African Greenstone discussion list 
for information and possible follow-up. I only 
joined in on this because I was involved in the 
ISISPlugin testing and documentation, normally 
African members of the list will reply first as they can.

I see know that your problem is other than I had 
understood it. I thought that you wanted to 
modify the metadata set exploded from CDS/ISIS 
but you only wish to add more documents.

Once the collection is exploded, then you can add 
documents in GLI as for any other collection, 
type in the metadata in the Enrich panel, then rebuild the collection.

The only potential problem would be that the 
Greenstone collection would no longer be 
identical in content to the CDS/ISIS database. 
Greenstone is not really appropriate for 
cataloguing and if you are speaking about your 
library catalogue perhaps you should consider 
maintaining the CDS/ISIS database as the master 
database and regularly importing, exploding and 
building in Greenstone. To shorten and automate 
the work, it could be done with the command line 
instead of GLI (see the CDS/ISIS to Greenstone 
manual, http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/others/CDS-ISIS_to_DL.doc).

                                                 Best regards, John

P.S. Please note that there is a new CDS/ISIS 
compatible integrated library automation package 
called ABCD 
(http://bvsmodelo.bvsalud.org/php/level.php?lang=en&component=27&item=13), 
but I am not sure about whether its files can be handled by ISISPlugin.

At 14:55 02/10/2009, you wrote:
>Greetings Sir
>
>The major problem which I am facing is that when 
>I exploded from CDSISIS into Greenstone I then 
>created a book collection or catalogue on the 
>Librarian Interface of Greenstone. Now the 
>underlying problem now is I want to catalogue 
>or  enter more books into the collection. Should 
>I create another collection for staff to 
>catalogue books using Greenstone. Or is possible 
>to do book entry using Greenstone Librarian Interface. How best can I do this.
>
>Please assist.
>
>  Kind Regards
>
>
>Gilchriste Ndongwe
>Centre for Peace Intiatives in Africa
>Research and Documentation : Library  ICT Officer
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