On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Kiriaki Roditi <krod...@elidoc.gr> wrote: > In this case, there were no changes in the authorities, and I was able to > overcome the import error by deleting the authority-field-column from the > csv. But what if we need to batch edit authority values? Is it possible?
Hi Kiriaki, there should be no special authority-field-column in the CSV. Authority and confidence should be part of the contributor field like this: "Kiriaki Roditi::aut123456::600" (assuming the default separator "::" which can be configured in [dspace]/config/modules/bulkedit.cfg). Is this what you tested with? Send an example line from your CSV file. > Another thing I noticed during this procedure, is that most of the authors > are written in dc.contributor.author[] while others get written in > dc.contributor.author. There is no evident pattern why it happens to only > few records. Can anyone explain why this happens? Will it affect our > metadata? The reason is there are different ways to import/edit data in DSpace. They put different things into the text_lang column of the metadatavalue table - either they put a NULL, which results in "dc.contributor.author" or they put in an empty string, which results in "dc.contributor.author[]". They could also put in a value, so you could also see several other columns like "dc.contributor.author[en_US]". This is a common occurrence and it doesn't cause any problems, only this slight annoyance with seemingly redundant columns in Batch Metadata Editor (they're not redundant, they're complementary). Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
