[Dspace-general] Bulk Upload naming upload

[Luis Rodrigues]

Hi,

I've been on holidays so I didn't reply sooner.

I have +200 book pages all on DSpace, as part of my project I am
supposed to provide a index for those pages (in a PDF file with
links). Any idea how to do this?

Regards,

Luis


2008/11/18 Mark H. Wood <mwood at iupui.edu>:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 03:41:09PM +0000, Luis Rodrigues wrote:
>> I'm uploading multiple pages of a book. so:
>> upload
>>  --dir1
>>    --page.pdf
>>    --contents
>>    --dublin_core.xml
>> --dir2
>>    --page.pdf
>>    --contents
>>    --dublin_core.xml
>> --dir3
>>    --page.pdf
>>    --contents
>>    --dublin_core.xml
>>
>> ...
>> Each of the files gets an automatic id
>> http://server/handle/123456789/943
>> http://server/handle/123456789/944
>> http://server/handle/123456789/945
>> ...
>>
>> How can I make this number start at a given number and auto increment
>> from there?
>
> You can't.  There is a single Handle namespace used for all
> communities, collections, and items.  Handles (123456789/943 and the
> like) are meant to be completely abstract; any attempt to assign them
> meaning within a subset of the repository's contents is bound to end
> in frustration.  Each new community, collection, or item is assigned
> the next serial number within the single handle namespace.
>
> Facilities such as DSpace are more like a deck of needelsort cards
> than they are like a filesystem.  You search by some combination of
> characteristics of the content, not by name.
>
> Why do you want to specify the handle values?  What would that allow
> you to do?  There might be another (perhaps better!) way of doing it,
> or DSpace might not be the right tool for this particular job.
>
> --
> Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood at IUPUI.Edu
> Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents.
>
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