Hi Adam,
thanks for such a quick reply. I'll look into it in the following days. It 
looks exactly what I was looking for :)

Best, 
Bojan

On Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 5:59:08 AM UTC+2, Adam Cox wrote:
>
> Hi Bojan, I am actually working on this exact process right now, because I 
> had a similar need.
>
> The scripts I have been working on, along with some example data, are in 
> this repo https://github.com/legiongis/fpan-data in the utils directory. 
> The main script, thesaurus_from_csvs.py, will create an entire thesaurus 
> from a directory full of csv files. A new top concept is created for each 
> file, and a concept is made for every row within it. Also, a collection is 
> made for each csv. In the script you are able to define some information 
> about the files -- whether an alphabetical sortorder is applied to the 
> contents of each one, which column index holds the label, etc. You can also 
> choose to reuse UUIDs that are already present in the csvs. This is 
> important, because in v4 these UUIDs need to be consistent in the business 
> data (in v3 the conceptids in the authority files where used instead). To 
> this end, I made the other script, which will take the csv files and add a 
> column of UUIDs to each one, if one doesn't exist.
>
> The whole setup is pretty limited though, no capacity for altlabels, and, 
> more importantly, no ability to indicate "collector" concepts or 
> hierarchies beneath a top concept at this time. But it should be easy to 
> augment if necessary; I tried to construct it a modular way. I would 
> welcome additions to that repo if you end up using those scripts.
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Bojan Kastelic <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> is there any way to import of concepts&collections like it was in v3 (via 
>> CSV file)? I'am migrating my project from v3 to v4 and all my data 
>> (concepts&business data) are imported from a backend system (import files 
>> (.csv & .arches in v3) are created via VBA scripts)). I managed to prepare 
>> a new CSV file for importing business data, but I can not find a way of 
>> importing data for concepts (dropdown lists) from a CSV file like it was 
>> possible in v3. Is there any other option for importing large lists of 
>> concepts (other than via RDF which is much more complicated to generate 
>> than a CSV file)? Like in v3 I would like to automate the whole process of 
>> preparing and importing all neccessary data to Arches, so manual input of 
>> concepts via RDM is not acceptable (all changes of these lists are made in 
>> backend system).
>>
>> Thanks, Bojan
>>
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