IMI

Call it The GCDLADB if you like.

Mounting //STORAGE for IMI Ingest in Digital.Grinnell  2 min read   Jul 22, 2019   |  Updated: Nov 12, 2020 08:30
Claiming another small victory today! Why? Well, the Digital.Grinnell instance of IMI (Islandora Multi-Importer) module is customized so that choosing “*local” as an object ingest source invokes a hook function I created in our DG7 module. That hook enables IMI to “find” named files/content (things like PDFs, images, etc.) in the Grinnell College //STORAGE server. //STORAGE can be mounted as a CIFS (Common Internet File System) and used to drive ingest if the right package/drivers are made available to Islandora. That can be a little tricky in ISLE, but it’s manageable. ...
Granular ISLE Customization: Implementing IMI Hooks  1 min read   Sep 29, 2019   |  Updated: Nov 21, 2019 20:38
Granular ISLE Customization This post is part of a series describing Digital.Grinnell customizations to ISLE, in a “granular” format… one small customization at a time. An index of all documents in this series is included at the end of Granular ISLE Customization: Series Guidelines. Goal Statement In this “granular” post I’ll introduce two customizations to IMI that implement and engage Drupal “hook” functions, namely: hook_islandora_multi_importer_remote_file_get(), and hook_form_islandora_multi_importer_form_alter(). Drupal 7 Hooks See Understanding the hook system for Drupal modules to better understand what Drupal v7 hook functions are, and how they work. ...
Granular ISLE Customization: Installing IMI  3 min read   Sep 27, 2019   |  Updated: Oct 4, 2019 12:26
Granular ISLE Customization This post is part of a series describing Digital.Grinnell customizations to ISLE, in a “granular” format… one small customization at a time. An index of all documents in this series is included at the end of Granular ISLE Customization: Series Guidelines. Goal Statement In this “granular” post we will install IMI, the Islandora Multi-Importer module, into an existing ISLE instance, for example: https://dg.localdomain/. Install the Islandora Multi-Importer (IMI) It’s important that we take this step BEFORE other customizations, otherwise the module may not install properly. ...
Digital.Grinnell's IMI Workflow  5 min read   Aug 21, 2019   |  Updated: Sep 16, 2019 22:11
Note: The abbreviation IMI is used frequently in this post to represent the Islandora Multi-Importer, a CSV-file-driven batch ingest tool used by numerous institutions in the Islandora community. Also, while updating this post I found this gem… Diagrams in Documentation (Markdown Guide). This post is an addition to the discussion in post 028, Mounting //Storage for IMI Ingest in Digital.Grinnell which was written largely to remind me how the //Storage mount works. 😕 Unlike post 028, this post is meant for myself AND for others at Grinnell College who prepare digital objects for ingest via IMI. ...