Thanks for the answer. For now, it may be just safer to export AIPs and
Community/Collection metadata, and then develop methods to build working
directories offline for later import. Such exports will provide all the
images and records of anything needed for future items and also make it
possible to create a new CSV of obsolete items to delete later.
On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 3:57:17 PM UTC-4 Tim Donohue wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> At this time, I'm not aware of a way to move Bitstreams between Items...
> other than at the database level.
>
> Hypothetically, you should be able to move a Bitstream by changing the
> "bundle2bitstream" table in the database, as that table decides which
> Bundle each Bitstream belongs to. So, it may be possible to move them by
> moving them from one Item's "ORIGINAL" Bundle to another Item's "ORIGINAL"
> Bundle. (The "ORIGINAL" Bundle is just the default Bundle that DSpace uses
> to store bitstreams). If you move Bitstreams in this way, you will *have*
> to do a full reindex of the site (otherwise your search results will likely
> show the old location). I'd also recommend trying this out in a
> test/staging environment first, as I've never done this before... so, you
> want to make sure it works with no side effects.
>
> Unfortunately, I do not believe this is possible from the REST API or UI
> at this time. (If I'm wrong about that, I hope someone corrects me!) The
> only way to achieve something similar from the UI would be to download the
> file from one Item and then upload it to a different Item, but that'd be a
> very manual process.
>
> Tim
>
> On Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 7:45:53 AM UTC-5 Chris Clawson wrote:
>
>> We have many items in our database which include single images. Many of
>> these should be combined into groups and described by a single entry.
>>
>> The new image viewer and image metadata (description) makes it much
>> better for users to view a single item, containing larger groups of images.
>> The viewer now permits gallery views or 'slide show' presentation and the
>> user doesn't need to jump around database items to view a related group of
>> images.
>>
>> How can I move previously assigned bitstreams to these newly created
>> items?
>>
>>
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