[Insightl] Inscribe: data imports

[rlb179 at columbia.edu]

Columbia University Libraries has recently implemented Insight and
Inscribe. We now need to import records cataloged by the Art
History Dept.'s Visual Media Center into Inscribe. Their records are
in a MySQL relational database.

We are interested in learning how other instituitions handled the
direct export of data from local systems into Inscribe. Were
records put in a flat file such as an Excel spreadsheet?  Was the
existing table structure mimiced and then imported? Other methods?

Thanks,
Robbie Blitz

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Roberta Blitz
Digital Collections/Art Research Librarian
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue, MC 0301
New York, NY 10027
Phone:   212-854-3605
FAX:     212-854-8904
Email:   rlb179 at columbia.edu
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