[Dspace-general] Export/ Importa function in DSpace

[Stuart Lewis]

Hi Ina,

> I have a question re the Export function in DSpace. Export and Export (Migrate) does exactly the same, and there is no Import function which makes it very difficult to manage DSpace from a non-technical DSpace Administrator’s side. Are you perhaps looking into it, or do I have it wrong? It would be very nice to import and export items around while being logged in as an Administrator, without having an IT expert to use the command line packager tool.

The difference between 'Export' and 'Export (Migrate)' is that the migrate option removes some of the automatically generated metadata such as the handle and accession date from each record. It is intended that this option is used if you want to export items in order to import them into a different DSpace repository that will re-generate these metadata values with new values.

As you say, importing from the user interfaces would be a great new feature. If you enter it as a feature request in our tracking system (http://jira.dspace.org/) then it will be considered for future versions of DSpace. Even better, if any developer has the time to develop it, we'd be more than happy to accept a patch that includes this functionality. It shouldn't be a hard feature to write as all the unzipping and importing functionality is built, it just needs an administrative user interface to be created that accepts an upload, performs the import, and displays the result.

Thanks,


Stuart Lewis
IT Innovations Analyst and Developer
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