Hi Timo, > I did some metadata gardening using the CSV bulk editor and as I uploaded my > changes I noticed that the bulk metadata importer added an empty > dc.description.abstract (with a 'fi' language identifier that is the default > for our installation nowadays) into just about every record I had in that > csv. (see: https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/24620?show=full for > example). Mea culpa in that regard that I should have noticed this before > pressing the yes key, but I still think there should be a some kind of a > sanity check on the importer about not creating empty metadata value fields.
There is a sanity check for this, so I'm not sure how it could have happened: - http://scm.dspace.org/trac/dspace/browser/dspace/trunk/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/bulkedit/DSpaceCSV.java#L481 Is the field definitely empty - could it have contained something like a single space? It looks like Item.java, when ingesting metadata, performs a trim() on the values, to remove any leading or trailing spaces: - http://scm.dspace.org/trac/dspace/browser/dspace/trunk/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/content/Item.java#L684 The CSV importer does not perform a trim(). I'll need to test this to see if it could be a problem, and if it does cause the problem you're seeing, then we'll need to make sure the CSV importer performs a trim too, so that it doesn't pass on a single space (or multiple spaces) to Item.java, which then trims them and archives them. Thanks, Stuart Lewis Digital Development Manager Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand Ph: +64 (0)9 373 7599 x81928 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
