Help on Batch Upload of items

[Adigun Samuel Akinwale]

Pls How do i batch load items? How do i deal with the information in meta data fields

[Kim Shepherd]

Hi Adigun,

If you're batch loading items without files, or wanting to edit existing item metadata in bulk, an easy and powerful way is to use the Batch Metadata Editing tool which allows you to export CSVs of metadata and import changes/additions/deletions.

You can find some documentation at https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Batch+Metadata+Editing

If you need to batch load a large set of items with files, you could look at the Simple Archive Format importer or the packager (AIP, SIP etc) -- I'd suggest the Simple Archive Format is the easiest to start with -- you could script or generate the XML metadata into the structure documented below, then load it all in.

https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Importing+and+Exporting+Items+via+Simple+Archive+Format

https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Importing+and+Exporting+Content+via+Packages

Hope this helps!

Kim