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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:

• files (content) such as images or PDFs
• XML metadata that can later have content files added to it
• both content files to be ingested and XML metadata to be appended to files
• books, formatted with a specific directory structure

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

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.

3. Click on the 'Collection' button

This will take you to that collection's options page.

4. Click on 'Batch Import Objects'

This will start the batch import process.

5. If other batch import modules are active, choose 'ZIP File Importer' from the drop-down menu

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 XML files with metadata

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 at the same time

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

When batch ingesting books, each folder/directory represents one book, and nested folders/directories represent the pages. 

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