[Dspace-general] How to swap a file when item already submitted to Dspace

[Tim Donohue]

Satu,

Probably the easiest way to swap a file (although it's admittedly *not* 
that easy, yet) is to login as your local DSpace Administrator, and 
click on the "Edit" button when you are viewing the item in DSpace.

That button will bring you to a page to edit any information about the 
item.  Unfortunately, this page is currently not very pretty, and only a 
librarian familiar with Dublin Core would have a chance at understanding 
it. :)

In any case, if you scroll down to the "Bitstreams" section at the very 
bottom, you will see the ability to "Remove" existing bitstreams/files 
and "Add" new bitstreams/files.  Please note that this doesn't update 
the qualified dublin core "format.extent" and "format.mimetype" fields 
automatically.  So, you may wish to manually update those as well.

In the future, you may also want to join the "dspace-tech" mailing list 
(I've copied it to this message), since oftentimes that can be a better 
place to post any specific questions about using DSpace software (or 
issues encountered).  However, since there are a lot of questions asked 
there (both technical and non-technical) it sometimes does get a little 
busy at times.

Good luck!

- Tim

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S Nieminen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to swap a file to another if it has already been
> submitted to DSpace? I have a dissertation record in our installation of
> DSpace and now need to change the file attached to another. Any help?
> 
> Satu
> 
> Ms Satu Nieminen
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> University of Bradford
> JB Priestley Library
> Richmond Road
> Bradford
> BD7 1DP
> Tel 01274 233400
> Fax 01274 233398
> Email s.nieminen at bradford.ac.uk 
> 
> 
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