Collection Management

Work in Progress

While there are some frontend features to work with the media collection for admins (ie users with the role ADMIN), most steps are performed using the CLI.

Getting Started

These steps are required to have a working media collection in DRES:

1. Create the collection in the CLI

DRES> collection create -n NAME -d DESCRIPTION -p PATH

where

• NAME is the human readable name of the collection, must be unique system wide
• DESCRIPTION is an optional description of the collection
• PATH is the path to the collection's root folder

2. Import the collection

DRES> collection scan -c NAME -vt mp4 -it jpg

This step scans the PATH property of the collection for files with the matching extensions, video items are created for the given -vt (video type), in the example command above this is mp4. Similarily, image items are created based on the -it (image type) findings, in this case jpgs.

Addtitional Step for Videos

The submission system expects segment information for video items. These are imported in a secondary step using the command:

DRES> collection importSegments -c NAME -f FILE

FILE is the path to a csv file with the format:

video,name,start,end

with:

• video being the filename of the video items, found during the scan earlier
• name is the name for the gcurent
• start is the frame number at the beginning of this segment (0 based)
• end is the frame number at the end of this segment (0 based)