[Dspace-general] Moving items from one collection to another

[Jose Blanco]

The functionality to move items around using the web interface is not in
DSpace presently, as far as I can tell.

-----Original Message-----
From: Eduardo Trápani [mailto:eduardo at esperanto.org.uy] 
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:15 PM
To: Jose Blanco
Cc: dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Moving items from one collection to another

Jose Blanco skribis:
> You will have to export them using ItemExport, then clean up what you
> exported using dspace_migrate and then use ItemImport to import it into
the
> new collection.  You will also have to remove the items (or the
collection)
> from the collection they are in before importing them to the new
collection.
> Doing this will preserve the handle.

Good, preserving the handle is not that important now, the whole dspace 
is only at the early building stage.  Thanks for your answer, it's clear 
how to do it as an administrator but, can users move items between 
collections?  I mean, not just make them belong to more than one, but 
actually changing the owning collection.

Should they upload a document with all its metadata to the wrong 
collection in the future, the only solution is to export/delete/import 
outside the web interface?  (short of expunging it and entering 
everything again)

Eduardo.