A simple question

[mar]

Good Morning,
I have read "OJS in an hour" but, first, I need to publish 'old' articles of the last years that, until today, are published in a web site (which will then be closed).
It seems a simple upload of full texts grouped by section made by admin.

I'm actually unable to do this.... Excuse me for this, probably, trivial question

Can you help me, please?

[ramon]

Hello mar,

Take a look at the documentation here.
If your previous version is in a database format, it would be easier to implement a script to generate the XML to import the data.
Otherwise, simulate the process within OJS.
There's a Quick Submit/Import Export Plugin in the Import/Export Plugins section.

_______________________________
Ramón Martins Sodoma da Fonseca
Analista em C&T
Coordenação de Tecnologias de Informação
Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia - IBICT
Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia - MCT

[mar]

Thank you.
By reading the paper suggested I have found sample.xml and also this more simple version:

<issues>
<issue published="false" current="false">
<title>Literature</title>
<volume>1</volume>
<number>2</number>
<year>2006</year>

<section>
<title locale="it_IT">Article</title>
<abbrev locale="it_IT">ART</abbrev>

<article>
<title>Test</title>
<abstract>Abstract text...</abstract>
<pages>8-18</pages>
<date_published>2006-08-01</date_published>
<author primary_contact="true">
<firstname>Giorgio</firstname>
<middlename><![CDATA[ ]]></middlename>
<lastname>Toni</lastname>
<email>email@email</email>
</author>
<galley>
<label>PDF</label>
<file><href mime_type="application/pdf" src="toni.pdf"/></file>
</galley>
</article>
</section>
</issue>

In OJS the Section is created and the article toni.pdf file is in the same folder of the xml file, but I get this message (I translate from Italian....):

The article "Test" in section "Article" of issue "Literature" missing proof file

Can you help me please?

[ramon]

Hello Mar,

Are you sure the path to "toni.pdf" is correct?
OTOH, it should be a full path to the file, otherwise it won't be imported...
If it's in your local machine, you need to add the full path (on Windows, C:\folder\path\to\toni.pdf), but I'm not 100% sure this is your problem.

You could also use a ASCII converter tool, to convert the PDF to ASCII and embed the PDF into the XML.

_______________________________
Ramón Martins Sodoma da Fonseca
Analista em C&T
Coordenação de Tecnologias de Informação
Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia - IBICT
Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia - MCT

[mar]

Thank you Ramon,
Unfortunately full path file does not influence the negative result..

I don't undersand:
...You could also use a ASCII converter tool, to convert the PDF to ASCII and embed the PDF into the XML...

but I read:
<galley>
<label>PDF</label>
<file><href mime_type="application/pdf" src="http://...../issue/some.pdf"/></file>
</galley>

I think this is the 'call' for article pdf file on not?

thank you again

[ramon]

Hello Mar,

Yes, that is normally the path to the file.
I'm not sure if the path needs to be a URL, or the <file> tag needs to change in order to import from local folder.
PKP developers can answer that question in more detail.

Regarding the comment about ASCII, it's because there are tools to convert any document format to ASCII characters.
Then, you can embed that into the XML, instead of the path.
However, maybe the file tag needs different attributes as well, I don't remember correctly.

If you export an issue or an article with OJS's Native Import/Export plugin and edit the XML on a text editor you'll see what I mean.

_______________________________
Ramón Martins Sodoma da Fonseca
Analista em C&T
Coordenação de Tecnologias de Informação
Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia - IBICT
Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia - MCT

[mar]

I have no new ideas
Therefore I am publishing the articles one at a time...