[Clipart] Old Content import WAS: ccHost now completely live!

[Jon Phillips]

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 08:49 +0200, Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote:
> Ryan wrote:
> > I have been thinking about this also,
> > 
> > Maybe, if we separate the existing collection into smaller chunks, say 100
> > images throw them in zip files, and upload them to cchost, us librarians
> > could download them, clean them up (reduce bounding boxes, etc), and set the
> > metadata right - esp. adding keywords (aka tags), then reupload the zip to
> > cchost. And when a script is written, they should be ready to go...
> 
> I would like to get my own files from the old site (some hundreds of 
> images), clean them (some are in need for this, mainly for title and 
> keywords) and re-upload, maybe along with what I made in the meantime 
> (over 100 new images) but I won't do that without a way to mass upload 
> the files.

I agree...mass import is the way to go...then we can upload and link to
the old ones...yes, this puts it mostly on me...so put on the
pressure :) I will aim at this WED.

Jon

> > The other option is to separate the old collection into chunks, and then
> > allow us librarians to clean up etc, then upload to cchost manually, in a
> > default user account say "old_clipart_upload"
> 
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