Re: [greenstone-users] Transfer Metadata from greenstone burnt CD/ fromoriginally compiled corrupted metadata
| From | richard |
| Date | Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:05:31 +1300 |
| Subject | Re: [greenstone-users] Transfer Metadata from greenstone burnt CD/ fromoriginally compiled corrupted metadata |
| In-Reply-To | (f7e0cbc10702250524r571736a2v32491213184b614d-mail-gmail-com) |
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Hi Shah, If the CD had the archives directory in your collection directory you could use that, but as that is unlikely, the only relatively useful way you could get the metadata from the burnt cd collection would be to get the .ldb or .bdb file from it and use the db2txt utiltity which comes with greenstone to convert the gdbm database to a text form, which could then be converted into an xml form for import back into greenstone. You would have to write a program to convert the text output from gdbm to xml, perhaps in perl, and this would be perhaps not a trivial undertaking. gdbm database file location: /gsdl/collect/<yourcollectionfolder>/index/text/<yourcollectionfolder>.ldb or .bdb db2txt utility location: on windows: /gsdl/bin/windows/db2txt.exe on linux: /gsdl/bin/linux/db2txt This is a clunky but possible solution. One way to not reimport your entire collection every time you add new data would be to use lucene as your indexer, which supports incremental building. You cant do this entirely from the GLI, you need to use the command line, and you need to add -incremental options to import.pl and buildcol.pl. For more information see: http://greenstone.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Building_Greenstone_collections#How_do_I_build_my_collection_incrementally.3F Good luck, Richard. -- DL Consulting Greenstone Digital Library and Digitisation Specialists contact@dlconsulting.com www.dlconsulting.com shaheen shah wrote: Hi Folks, | |