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For larger collections, Islandora is able to pull multiple files out of a zipped archive and ingest them into Fedora as a batch. There are a few ways that this can be done. You can upload .zip archives full of:
This page will run through the specifics of each one. In these examples, we will be batch-ingesting PDF files into a collection with the 'PDF Solution Pack' content model applied to its collection policy.
Ingest zipped content
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| Ingesting zipped content files |
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| Ingesting zipped content files |
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1. Create a .zip archive with your files in it
The process for doing this will vary from operating system to operating system, but on PC, Mac and Linux at least, a .zip archive can be made in your file browser by highlighting the file or files you would like to zip, right-clicking, and finding an option similar to 'compress', 'create archive', 'create zipped folder', and so on.
In our example, opening the zipped archive shows our PDFs grouped together:
2. Navigate to the destination collection and click 'Manage'
This will take you to the collection's management page.
This will take you to that collection's options page.
4. Click on 'Batch Import Objects'
This will start the batch import process.
The Islandora Batch Importer module comes with several different modules for handling different types of content. If more than one is enabled, you will need to select the correct one.
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In this case, we will be importing objects from a .zip file, so we are going to select that option.
6. Choose the correct options for your batch import
There are a few options on this screen that will need to be set up:
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| Ingest Metadata Only |
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| Ingest Metadata Only |
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If you wish to ingest objects as simply metadata without a file datastream attached, you may do so by using the batch importer to import a .zip file full of XML forms.
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| Ingest Metadata and Files together |
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| Ingest Metadata and Files together |
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Zip archives can contain both the content files to be ingested and the metadata files at the same time. This can be accomplished in the same way as the first example, with a few changes to the .zip archive itself:
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Batch Ingest Books
Books must be broken up into separate directories, such that each directory at the "top" level (in the target directory or Zip file) represents a book. Book pages are their own directories inside of each book directory.
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Text files for individual pages can also be supplied to provide a plain-text representation of the materials. For example, handwritten items can have a transcribed text file uploaded in the batch process as --TEXTFILE--.txt.
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| Newspaper batch ingest |
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Batch Ingest Newspapers
When batch ingesting newspapers, you must already have an existing newspaper-level object. Each ingest folder contains folders that represent issues of the newspaper, and each issue directory contains folders that represent separate page images.
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| Batch Ingest Cleanup |
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| Batch Ingest Cleanup |
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Batch Ingest Cleanup
Islandora creates detailed reports for each Batch Ingest.
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