[Dspace-general] Command line tools to create communities and collections..

[Shashank Sahni]

Hi Vlastimil,
                    I am really thankful for your concern but i was able to
find such a tool that is availbale with default dspace which served my
purpose. Actually me and my friend had to implement a whole software library
using dspace. We couldn't have done it manually using the web interface
because the library was really vast.
So, we finally decided to use some scripts and programs to serve our
purpose. Since we knew how to upload a large amount of data using batches.
The only thing that we required was to find a way so that we could create
communities and collections in large numbers using the codes we have made.
Then we found out about "Collections and communities structure importer".
Well this was more or less like a command line tool we needed. I think you
might be aware of it, if not you may find about it here..

[dspace-source]/dspace/docs/html.legacy/application.html#structbuilder

We wrote a code that could create that xml file and then that command is
executed creating communites and collections in the required format..

Regards,
Shashank Sahni

2008/12/1 Vlastimil Krejcir <krejcir at ics.muni.cz>

>  Hello,
>
>  I read the dspace-general just only from time to time and someone has
> already answer you question. However...
>
>  I have met similar issue - need a command line tool to provide some
> actions which are avialable via web UI. There are no such tools in default
> DSpace (as I know) - you must create your own one. To create such tool I can
> recommend you to study dspace import script and Public API (Java Docs)
> because there are all necessary methods to do all the things you may want to
> do with DSpace.
>
>  Maybe there could be another possibility how to achieve this - I can give
> such task to some student at our university (as a part of Bc. thesis). If
> you are interested in cooperation we can discuss it in detail. It would need
> you effort too (at least to specify what you want).
>
>  have a nice day
>
>  Vlastik
>
>
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>
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Shashank Sahni wrote:
>
>  Hello people,
>>                      I was thinking of using a code to traverse the whole
>> directory structure recursively and appropriately create communities,
>> sub-communities and collections where ever needed..But for it i need to
>> know
>> a command line method (i.e. a command ) to create , edit and delete
>> communities, sub-communities and collections..So, are there any command
>> tools to create them...???
>> Please help..!!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Shashank Sahni
>>
>>
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