[Dspace-general] Bulk Upload Facility

[Harish Maringanti]

Dear Shashank,

I agree with you that depending on how many items you want to upload & how
often you use this feature, this process does look a bit tedious. If you are
using this bulk upload functionality sporadically then the existing process
is fine.

It won't be hard to write a script that will take a single directory with
all the items' files and one single xml file that captures the metadata of
all the items as input and spit out the format that Dspace requires. If
someone already wrote such a script, I hope they will share it with you.

Best,
Harish

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Shashank Sahni <shredder12 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well, don't you think it would be really hectic to create a sub-directory
> for each song and then creating 2 files in each sub-folder.
> Please correct me if i am wrong..but I think manually uploading would be
> faster then uploading the songs..using this method....
> Please reply..
>
> Regards..
>
> Shashank Sahni..
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Harish Maringanti <harish at ksu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Shashank,
>>
>> To answer your queries -
>>
>> 1. Each item would need a sub-directory & each sub-directory would have
>> the actual song in addition to dublin_core.xml & contents files.
>> 2. The collection id number is everything after the handle part in url. In
>> your specific case, collection id will be 123456789/2
>> <http://localhost:8180/jspui/handle/123456789/2>
>>
>> Harish
>>
>> Harish Maringanti
>> Systems Analyst
>> K-State Libraries
>> (785)532-3261
>>
>> 2008/11/7 Shashank Sahni <shredder12 at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Hello Claudia,
>>>                      Thanks for the tutorial..it was very helpful..But i
>>> am having a problem while executing the import script..correct me if i am
>>> wrong somewhere..
>>> I took a directory of 10 songs..well here i was not clear whether i have
>>> to create a separate sub directory for each item..so i decided to continue
>>> without making any..then i created a dublin_core.xml file in the directory
>>> which looked something like this..
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>>> <dublin_core>
>>>         <dcvalue element="contributor" qualifier="other">some
>>> person</dcvalue>
>>>         <dcvalue element="language" qualifier="iso">Hindi</dcvalue>
>>>         <dcvalue element="type" qualifier="none">Song</dcvalue>
>>> </dublin_core>
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> then i created a contents file which had list of all the songs in the
>>> directory followed by /tbundle:ORIGINAL at the end of each item..
>>> so i don't think i am having any problem there..
>>> Then i got confused regarding the collection Id....i was having a
>>> collection named "audio" which when opened has the following url..
>>>
>>> http://localhost:8180/jspui/handle/123456789/2
>>>
>>> so i decided to go with the collection id as 2..
>>>
>>> then i executed the following command.
>>>
>>> sh /dspace/bin/import -t --add  -e shredder12 at gmail.com -c -2 -s
>>> path_of_the_directory_to_be_ingested -m path_of_the_mapfile
>>>
>>> on executing it gave the following message.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> **Test Run** - not actually importing items.
>>> Destination collections:
>>> Owning  Collection:
>>> Adding items from directory: /home/ftp/Songs/hindi/rock/
>>> Generating mapfile: /dspace/mapfile
>>> ***End of Test Run***
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> well i think this means that everything is working fine..so i decided to
>>> now actually try adding the folder..so i executed the following command..
>>>
>>> sh /dspace/bin/import --add  -e shredder12 at gmail.com -c -2 -s
>>> path_of_the_directory_to_be_ingested -m path_of_the_mapfile
>>>
>>> It gave the following message..
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Destination collections:
>>> Owning  Collection:
>>> Adding items from directory: /home/ftp/Songs/hindi/rock/
>>> Generating mapfile: /dspace/mapfile
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> after that when i checked the audio collection in which i was trying to
>>> add the songs,  i found no song added...
>>> i even tried the command with collection id 123456789/2 but even it
>>> doesn't seem to work..
>>>
>>> Please help me figure out this problem..
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Shashank Sahni..
>>>
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