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You have to do a little planning before undertaking the conversion.
Review the appropriate documentation (e.g. About + Data + Formats and
BitstreamFormat + Renovation)
and be able to answer the questions below.

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Download Patch to DSpace 1.5 Source\\BitstreamFormat Conversion Instructions

• Shutdown your DSpace archive, i.e. the Java Servlet container / webserver.
• Update your install directory (i.e.

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  $\{DSPACE_INSTALL\}

  to the 1.6 prototype: Apply patches to the 1.5 source and rebuild or acquire a 1.6 binary distribution.
• While in the install directory, run

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  ant update

  to install new code.
• Check that

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  $\{DSPACE_HOME\}

  has a

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  config/formats

  subdirectory; if not, copy it over from the distribution hierarchy. You'll probably need to do that.
  e.g.

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  cp -rp config/formats $\{DSPACE_HOME\}/config

• Edit the DSpace Configuration as outlined below:

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Don't worry too much about getting everything perfect the first time, though.
You can always re-identify the formats of specific Bitstreams and
groups of them with the
BitstreamFormat + Workbench
utility, even after the conversion is finished.

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If corrections are necessary, use the BitstreamFormat + Workbench
(

org.dspace.administer.Formats

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If a problem or mistake in the BitstreamFormat conversion only becomes
apparent after you finish the conversion process (Phase 3) and thus
cannot go back to it, you can still put it right. The
BitstreamFormat + Workbench tool,

org.dspace.administer.Formats

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filename extension that
was not identified correctly before, and retry identifying it, e.g.
with the BitstreamFormat + Workbench utility.

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