lib-ir: reconfiguration of Electronic Records in SB

[Carol Hixson <chixson@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

Yesterday, I was working on the "Electronic Records:Office
of International Affairs" collection in SB (under Special Collections
and University Archives). I wanted to reconfigure it so that
Electronic records would be a sub-community (now that we have
that option) and then the individual Offices or departments would
be collections under the sub-community. There was no way
to do this within the existing DSpace administrative toolkit. I
talked with Corey about it and, as usual, he found a way to
make it happen. I'm forwarding on the details of how he did it
to the list so it will be archived for us all to refer to.

Carol

> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:52:07 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Corey Harper <charper@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
>
> The command line tool I was thinking of (called the community filiator!)
> wasn't actually capable of making the fix.  It's for creating new (or
> removing) parent child relationships between communities &
> sub-communities, but can't actually move a collection from one community
> to another.  The latter is necessary to create an interceding
> sub-community where collections already exist.
>
> However, it's easy enough to move a community by editing the database
> directly.  I tested this in irtest first, but did a database dump before
> doing it live in case anything broke.  It looks okay, but let me know if
> you see anything weird.  Essentially, it just involves changing the
> collections community membership, then re-indexing to make sure all items
> are represented in all appropriate browse and search indexes.
>
> If you notice anything awry, I can either troubleshoot or restore to a
> backup from about 11:30pm, but everything looks right to me.
>
> -Corey