On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 11:24:05PM +0530, Shashank Sahni wrote: > Well, don't you think it would be really hectic to create a sub-directory > for each song and then creating 2 files in each sub-folder. > Please correct me if i am wrong..but I think manually uploading would be > faster then uploading the songs..using this method....
For ten single-bitstream items as a one-time task, yes, I would say that submitting each separate item interactively is probably easier than hand-building a batch. Using the batch importer in this case would be better only as an exercise in learning to use the batch importer. If you expect to receive more batches of items, especially larger batches, and the metadata will be already machine-readable and merely need some mechanical recoding to be intelligible to the batch importer, then it would be worth the time to learn on a small batch now. The reason for the directory structure is that you might have items containing multiple bitstreams, and breaking the batch down into subdirectories containing fixed-named driver files is a good way to distinguish items without too much code complexity. It's easy to write up a little script which builds the batch structure from whatever you are given, so long as you know how to decide which bits go where. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents.
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