Hi,
I poked around the forums to see if this question had been answered, and it didn't seem like it. Feel free to point me to another thread if I just missed it.
I'm working on an exhibit for a museum that has items from many of our collections (it's sort of a retrospective of our collecting). I've created the collections within Omeka, and am importing the image data via csv; however, it seems that I am only able to assign imported items to one collection at a time. Is there any way to get around this? I have a field in my csv file that could map to a particular collection, if that were an option.
Has anyone done this, or do you have any perspective on how people have handled this issue other than importing multiple groups of items/csv files?
I'd appreciate any help. Thanks!
Omeka puts each item into only one collection. A workaround for that is to use tags instead of collections to organize items.
Hi,
I had the same issue, so I made a fork of CsvImport where a column can be added for collection name.
Sincerely,
Daniel Berthereau
Infodoc & Knowledge management
Daniel,
Is it possible to use your fork to replace files for items? I tried to do so a few ways, but couldn't get it to work.
Hi everyone, thanks for the response.
Daniel, I will show that to my colleagues and see what they say. Does it support creating new collections on import, or only existing ones?
Hi,
@sheepeeh
Not yet. Initially, CsvImport was a tool designed to import files and data, not to manage them. I think it may be easy to implement, because it can already replace metadata of items and files.
@siothelibrarian
It can import only in existing collections via the true name, but this can be an improvement of the plugin (it creates items and files, why not any other record type).
Sincerely,
Daniel Berthereau
Infodoc & Knowledge management