Batch Export Metadata

Owned by Ima Oduok (Unlicensed)
Apr 10, 2023
2 min read

  • Login to Repository  

  • Move the cursor over the symbol of a document with an arrow pointing to the right of it at the upper left-hand corner of the screen and left-click 

  • Select the Metadata option 

  • Use the pop-up search bar or scroll through the list to select the collection you want to export 

  • Once you select a collection, a confirmation pop-up will ask you to confirm your selection by clicking Cancel or Export 

  • After you click Export, the screen will redirect to the Process status page 

  • You may have to refresh the page to see the Status change from RUNNING to COMPLETED 

  • Once the process has completed, a link to a downloadable .csv output file will become available on the screen 

  • Choose where you want to save the .csv file on your computer 

Note: You may want to rename the exported .csv to correspond to the collection. Each time you batch export collection metadata, the default file name will be machine generated. 

The .log file contains information on the export process. This may be beneficial for troubleshooting in case the process fails. 

  • The downloaded .csv file will contain item level metadata for the objects in the collection. These fields and values can be edited and reimported to make batch changes to item metadata. See the Batch Import Metadata documentation for those instructions. Â