Re: [greenstone-devel] Update an existing collection From: Leho@nq Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:44:41 -0700 (PDT)

Re: [greenstone-devel] Update an existing collection

From	Leho@nq
Date	Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:44:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject	Re: [greenstone-devel] Update an existing collection
In-Reply-To	(6667)
Hi, Thank you for your help! I finally found that it's very easy to update an existing collection! Why didn't I recognize that the import directory is not necessary? :-) So, if you want to update an existing collection, first of all, you should delete all files in the Import Directory (it doesn't affect your collecton unless you want to re-use these files). And then , you copy desired files which you want to add to the current collection to that directory. After that, use command line to update the collection. Execute the import.pl (the option -keepold is default (true) - important !) with the current collection. And after that, is buildcol.pl. The buildcol process must rebuild the whole collection, of course! Done ! Hope that helps someone like me yesterday ;) Regards, Lehoanq *Katherine Don <kjdon@cs.waikato.ac.nz>* wrote: Hi Actually, if you are using the GLI, you can't keep the old archives. You have to re-import and re-build each time. I suggest you use command line building if you only want to add a couple of documents and not re-import the old ones. Regards, Katherine Don Stephen DeGabrielle wrote: > Collection building works in two stages > 1. import - which adds files to the import directory > 2. Build - which converts the collection so that the greenstone > 'receptionist' can search (via indexes) > > Import adds files in the import directory to the archive directory - > unless you use the -remove_old flag - in which case it wipes > previously imported files. Please look in the developers manual for > details. > > If you are using the GLI(librarian) you may need to switch to 'expert' > mode to gain access to the -remove_old flog in the import options. > > I hope this helps. > > s. > > > On 4/16/05, Leho@nq wrote: > >>Hi everybody, >> >>I read the article "Greenstone: A Comprehensive Open-Source Digital Library >>Software System" of Prof. Ian H Witten. It said that when updating an >>existing collection, just placed the new file in the import directory, in >>whatever form it is available. And "old material for which GML files have >>previously been created is not re-imported." I tested several times, with >>many options for import process, but existing files still were re-imported >>(and cost lot of time because the existing collection is quite large). Could >>you tell me why, please? (As in an email before, Ms Katherine Don told me >>that there is no other way to add one file into a collection, and should use >>cross collection instead. I trust in her. I just wanna try for more. But it >>didn't work :-) ) >> >>It's quite important for me, so please help me! >> >>Thank you so much! >> >>Lehoanq >> >> >> >> >>Std. Le Hoang Ngoc Quynh (Lê Hoàng Ng□c Qu□nh) >>Software Engineering Department. >>Faculty of Information Technology >>University of Natural Sciences, VNU - HCMC. >> >> >> ________________________________ >>Do you Yahoo!? >> Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>greenstone-devel mailing list >>greenstone-devel@list.scms.waikato.ac.nz >>https://list.scms.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/greenstone-devel >> >> >> > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com