You can find the scripts here. CAVEAT: These are ugly hacks at best http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/~millarj/cdmtab2dspace/

Instructions:

1. Export your data from CONTENTdm in the control panel. Select a Tab Delimited export and make sure to check “Return field names in first record”
2. Next, open the resulting text file in a spreadsheet application of your choice. If you don’t want to munge dates and other non-text data, make sure each column is imported as the “Text” type. Excel for example, has a hard time with ISO dates.
3. Add a row to the top of the spreadsheet and place the appropriate DSpace fieladn mes (minus the dc. prefix) above the CONTENTdm field to be mapped. If you want to skip a field, just use “skip” as the DSpace field label.
4. Save it back out as a tab-delimited file.
5. Download the script and edit it to customize to your hearts content.
6. Run the script from a unix/linux/macosx commandline “php cdmtab2dspace.php”

At the top of the script are various customizations/configurations. To see how things will look, set $test_mode = “on” When ready to run it live, change that bit to “off”

In particular, customize/rewrite the “move_bitstreams” function to, you guessed it, move the bitstreams (digital objects) from wherever you have them into the submission package.

When in the directory where the files are stored, issue this command from the Bash shell prompt

for i in `ls`; do mv $i `echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`; done

Ingredients:

1. External Firewire drive, at least as big as the internal drive on the Macbook Pro.

2. Freeware utility, “Do Something When” (DSW) http://www.azarhi.com/Projects/DSW/
3. Rsync and some scripting Glue
4. Platypus for bundling up that cool script: http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus
   Steps:
   1. Hookup and format External drive. Give it a simple volume name. Mine is “MaxtorBackup” Avoid spaces, it will make your life easier.

   2. Download and install DSW and Platypus. DSW installs as a preference pane.
   3. Open up the Terminal and create a folder for your scripts. I recommend something simple like “/Users//scripts”
   4. In the scripts directory, create a shell script called “backup.sh” In it, place the following code:

      if [ -e "/Volumes/MaxtorBackup" ]; then
rsync -aE ~/ /Volumes/MaxtorBackup/backup
osascript < tell application "System Events"
activate
set dd to display dialog ""Home" Folder nBacked up Successfully" buttons {"OK"} default button 1 giving up aft
er 30
set UserResponse to button returned of dd
end tell
EOF

      else
osascript < tell application "System Events"
activate
set dd to display dialog "Please mount MaxtorBackup first!" buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon caution giv
ing up after 30
set UserResponse to button returned of dd
end tell
EOF
fi


   5. Use Platypus to wrap your script up in an apple Application Bundle. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader (RTM).
   6. Create an action in DSW:
      - Open up the preference pane and create a new rule that waits for MaxtorBackup to come online and runs your bundled script when it does. Make sure that "Automatically Start on Logon" is checked.
      That's pretty much it. Every time your backup device comes online, up pops your application and rsync syncs over anything that has changed since the last time. I've got mine set to sync only my home folder since everything else is more easily rebuilt from scratch (applications etc) You could just as easily modify the script to sync changes on your whole drive, but if you were doing that you might as well use Carbon Copy Cloner to create a clone of your drive periodically.
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      Here’s the script: It uses lots of execs, so it’s probably not something you want to be run by the public. I run this through the command-line and then pass the output to bash. Using print statements instead of execs lets me run the commands individually if I want to test them out and see any errors. Using an exec will work as well if you’re confident that you don’t have any weird djvu’s in your list

      Usage: php4 convert.php |sh
      
$file = $argv[1];
$file = $file . ".djvu";
$stem = ereg_replace(".djvu", "", $file);
$pages = exec("djvudump $file |grep INFO |wc -l");

      for ($i = 1; $i <= $pages; $i++)
{
print "ddjvu -page=$i -format=tiff $file $stem-$i.tiffn";
$pdf_string = $pdf_string . " $stem-$i.tiff";
}
print "convert -adjoin $pdf_string -format pdf $stem.pdfn";
print "rm *.tiffn";


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