I've been wanting this functionality for a while, but have been too lazy
to add it. In my case, I want to use filenames (I know they are unique)
as identifiers, so your suggestion that it would be better if we could
specify the metadata field to use is a good one.

What if we used an additional parameter to specify which field(s) to use:

import.pl -OIDtype metadata -OIDmetadata Barcode colname

alternatively, we could simply name the metadata field in the import command:

import.pl -OIDtype Barcode colname

Any thoughts from other developers?

Anyway, if nobody elkse adds it to CVS, I'll do so next time I rebuild my
collections, though that's not likely to be for a little while.

Gordon

> http://users.bigpond.com/spdegabrielle/barcodedocid.zip
> I thought about adding it as a flag to 'RecPlug' as our case involves
> getting the metadata from the metadata.xml file- but it seems to me that
> it would be more flexible if it was in import.pl and had the ability to
> specify which metadata field to draw the OID
> from.