Dear Stan, If you log into DSpace web interface as an administrator and then navigate to a collection you will see the "export metadata" link on the sidebar. This will download a CSV file where one of the columns will be "collection". You can change the collection there and re-upload it to DSpace via the "import metadata" function on the web interface. The items will move to the new collection.
You also have the option to "map" items from one collection to another. When you do this the item stays in its "owning collection" and is simply mapped to the other so it appears in both. Regarding the links to the handles, they are persistent and will always work for an item no matter where it is in the DSpace hierarchy of communities and collections. Make sure to always use the real Handle links when linking to these items in publications, social media, emails, etc because they will always work even if you change the URL or domain name of your repository: https://hdl.handle.net/10587/1915 See the batch metadata documentation here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Batch+Metadata+Editing Regards, On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:40 AM Stan Orlov <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings! > > We have two "Graduate Theses" collections. The main one is in the "MSVU > Theses" community at http://ec.msvu.ca/xmlui/handle/10587/95, but we also > created long time ago another one in the "Department of Applied Human > Nutrition" community at http://ec.msvu.ca/xmlui/handle/10587/548. Is > there a simple way for us to merge the two collections into one under the > main "MSVU Theses" community? > > Ideally, it would be great if the existing external links to the applied > human nutrition theses could still work after we move them to the main > community. We have "handle" in the URLs, so I wonder whether that is > something that would need to be updated too? > > > -- > All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of > Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DSpace Technical Support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alan Orth [email protected] https://picturingjordan.com https://englishbulgaria.net https://mjanja.ch "In heaven all the interesting people are missing." ―Friedrich Nietzsche -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
