I have a collection of document files sitting on a file server. Each document
is associated with a set of data files. The data files live in subdirectories
of the parent document file. Many of a document's data files have identical
names and are only differentiated by their position within the directory
structure.
I wrote a python script which reads metadata from a spreadsheet, grabs the
associated document and data files and creates simple archive directories
suitable for import using itemimport.
My understanding is that itemimport directories cannot contain subdirectories.
(i.e. I can't replicate the fileserver's document/data tree in the dspace
simple archive format). Is that correct?
For any given document, I can't copy all of the data files to one directory.
The file names are identical so they end up overwriting each other. There's
also the problem of loss of contextual information. (For any data file, a
great deal of identifying information is contained in the name of its
directory. e.g. directory name "High rainfall maps", data file name
"Co_surface.jpg" / directory name "Quiescent maps", data file name
"Co_surface.jpg")
I'm thinking that I'll need to prefix each of the data file names with their
original directory names, so as to retain the contextual information. I'm
fairly new to dspace so I'm wondering - are there other options? Eg. can I
associate a single metadata record with easily navigable related sets of data
files in a way that would make sense to a user approaching the default dspace
interface?
How do others deal with this sort of issue?
thanks
rowan
Rowan Brownlee
Digital Project Analyst
University of Sydney Library
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9036 6450
Fax: +61 2 9351 3689
http://escholarship.usyd.edu.au/dpa/
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