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Can I export my digital material out of DSpace?

Yes. Currently DSpace has a Item Exporter which supports exporting digital content, along with its metadata, in a simple XML-encoded file format . The DSpace developers are working on migrating this export capability to use the METS standard, but are waiting for some necessary extension schemas to emerge (such as one for qualified Dublin Core metadata, and one for minimal technical/preservation metadata for arbitrary digital objects).

Can I import items into DSpace in batch mode?

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(where each item is exported into a separate directory). See the "Item Importer and Exporter" section of the DSpace Documentation's System Administration chapter for more details.

There are also basic packagers which allow exporting using the METS standard. For more information on these, see the "Package Importer and Exporter" section of the DSpace Documentation's System Administration chapter (see above link).

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Can I import content into DSpace in batch mode?

Yes. Currently DSpace supports importing content in batch using a variety of options:

  1. DSpace Item Importer - Can import content in batch if it matches the "DSpace Simple Archive Format", which is the format generated by the DSpace Item Exporter
    • See the "Item Importer and Exporter" section of the DSpace Documentation's System Administration chapter for more details.
    • Also see DSpace Batch Importer Overview (blog post by Dorothea Salo).
  2. Batch Editing Tool - allows you to import new metadata-only items (not content) (DSpace 1.6.0 and above)
    • See the "Batch Metadata Editing" section of the DSpace Documentation's System Administration chapter for more details.
  3. Community and Collection Structure Importer - Allows you to import an entire Community/Collection hierarchy given an XML file.
    • See the "Community and Collection Structure Importer" section of the DSpace Documentation's System Administration chapter for more details.
  4. DSpace Packagers - Packagers exist which support importing METS documents provided they are in the DSpace METS SIP (Submission Information Package) format
    • See the "Package Importer and Exporter" section of the DSpace Documentation's System Administration chapter for more details
  5. DSpace SWORD Interface - DSpace comes with its own SWORD Server (the 'sword' webapp), which allows any SWORD client to submit documents electronically to DSpace.

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Will DSpace interoperate with other systems running at my organization?

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