I found a great tool that makes batch importing items a snap. It's at https://github.com/peterdietz/SAFBuilder Alain
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of helix84 Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 5:03 PM To: Alain Tschanz Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] ingestion On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Alain Tschanz <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible to import metadata first and then use the packager to > add PDF files that go along with the metadata? DSpace seems to want > to create a new item every time I run the packager, but is it possible > to specify the handle and have the PDF imported? Hi Alain, no, in general there is no easy way to just batch-add bitstreams to existing items. > I saw this command in the documentation but I can’t specify the handle > of the item. > > wget -O - http://alum.mit.edu/jarandom/my-thesis.pdf | > [dspace]/bin/dspace packager -e [email protected] -p 4321/10 -t PDF – This won't work with existing items. What you see here is a special importer that extracts metadata from the PDF file - and creates a new item with this metadata. What you want to look at instead is some form of export of existing items, then batch-adding the bitstreams and then reimporting them. An easy way might be to use SAFbuilder: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Simple+Archive+Format+Packager Or, alternatively, you would write your own piece of code, be that a curation task or a class using the dspace API (or the REST API in the future when it has write capabilities). Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
