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

[Nicu Buculei (OCAL)]

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.

> 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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nicu
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