Access Conference 2018 Day 1 Afternoon Sessions #AccessYHM
Data Migration to Open Journal System (OJS) Using R You Young Lee Worked with scholarly communication librarian to move from legacy system to OJS. Migration using R programming language. Wanted to migrate nursing journal Aporia. Internal system didn't support editor peer review, no user friendly interface to upload articles, typical workflow was to receive content and copy and paste metadata using templates and uploading to server. Since OJS is available, time to move on. Approximately 32 issues, didn't want to manually copy and paste. New issue will have updated location. Project goal: how to convert metadata in HTML into XML. Project tool and packages: Use Studio instead of R, provides console and editor, debugging tool and workspace management. Easy to manage datasets and scripts all in one place. Rcrawler, data.table, dplyr, XML, stringr. Challenge 1: how download data from the website: crawler parses whole website and extracts all data with a single command line. HT...