The dspace item-update command will do what you need provided you create
the expected folder structure and provided you have a metadata field
containing unique values to match upon.
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Updating+Items+via+Simple+Archive+Format
Terry
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Alain Tschanz <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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
>
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