few questions

[ElsaZakhia]

Dear all AtoM community,

We still are in process of updating our AtoM or installing a parallel version, in order for us to restart with AtoM.

I'd like to have your answers on few questions:

-Is it possible to make batch modifications or batch delete?

-Do you have an example for a book archived and scanned page by page?

-Is it possible to export the tables directly from AtoM or should we do it from the SQL?  My concern is to have the confirmation that we can export the data easily.

-Is it possible to add a location for the items or collection described?

Thank you for your kind answers,

Elsa Zakhia

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[Daniel Lovegrove]

Hi there,

I can provide some answers for the questions you had.

- Is it possible to make batch modifications or batch delete?

Batch modification, yes. The csv:import tool has a way to update existing records. Batch deletion, kind of. You can delete a parent record and any child records are deleted with the tools:delete-description command. Deleting multiple child-level records is more tricky, if you're familiar with Linux then you can use the xargs tool to call tools:delete-description multiple times.

- Do you have an example for a book archived and scanned page by page?

Not me personally, but this is 100% doable in AtoM. You can import a separate record per page of your object "manually," or you can turn on the feature that automatically splits multi-page files into separate records.

- Is it possible to export the tables directly from AtoM or should we do it from the SQL?  My concern is to have the confirmation that we can export the data easily.

I would suggest exporting via CSV. Most everything can be exported via CSV files. You can use the csv:export tool to export archival descriptions as CSV, or you can use the clipboard to export specific records. I would strongly suggest against doing it via SQL since there are many inter-linked tables in AtoM and trying to put that all back together into a sensible structure can be difficult.

- Is it possible to add a location for the items or collection described?

It depends what you mean. If you mean a physical location of where the item can be found, yes, you can link records to physical storage.

Hope that was helpful!

-Daniel