Hello Yan,

Could you send me your program?
I would like to try on.

Thanks,
mj

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Han, Yan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello, Colleagues,
>
>
>
> As ProQuest/UMI switched its delivery platform for Electronic Theses and
> dissertations(ETD), I have developed a small software package to process
> ETD. The software package does:
>
> 1.       Unzip ProQuest/UMI ETD delivery Zipped files, and create one
> directory per ETD.
>
> 2.       Rename these ETDs into other preferred file names (in my case,
> Wang_arizona_0009D_10075.xml à azu_etd_10075_sip1_m.xml)
>
> 3.       Generate digital signature for digital preservation.
>
> 4.       Create MARC records from ProQuest/UMI XML files.  (i.e. a MRK file
> will be generated for direct loading to catalog. I use III innovative and
> Koha)
>
> 5.       Create embargo notification and moving embargo ETDs to a different
> directory for future loading
>
>
>
> This package saves me a lot of time to process hundreds of ETDs. The
> package (size of 50kb) has a Java compiled code (class file) and Perl
> Scripts. Currently I run it on Linux, but it can be run in Windows.
>
>
>
> If anyone wants to have it or give it a try, please contact me.
>
>
>
> p.s. I also have a package handling ProQuest old platform (BePress) ETD
> files.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Yan Han
>
> The University of Arizona Libraries
>
>
>


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Myung-Ja (mj) Han
Metadata Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign