[CWISUsers] Question about database schema and importing data

Edward Almasy ealmasy at scout.wisc.edu
Wed May 26 01:25:11 CDT 2004


On Tue, May 25, at 03:30:11PM, Mark Jordan wrote:
> Is there more information available on importing data into cwis?
> MetadataTool/SPT--ImportData.php describes the process at a
> high level, but I'm interested in seeing more detail. My motivation
> for this is that I am considering using cwis as our electronic theses
> and dissertations database, and I will be dumping a few thousand MARC
> records from out library catalogue and importing them into cwis.

   Mark, I take it the import function in CWIS won't do what you need it
   to to do?  Can you give more information about what you need to import
   and/or what hurdles you've encountered?  The built-in import facilities
   are pretty flexible.

   Ed


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