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- Prepping metadata batches for ingest is a lot of work for Maggie.
- There are some issues with exporting the metadata from DDR - delimiter issues - there is a JIRA w/ Jim C.
- Laura is still working on the metadata, which makes the ingest complicated. Ideally there would be a clear point where Laura is “done” before Maggie manages the ingest into DDR.
- To discuss w/ Craig and Laura:
- When will metadata be “done”?
- If not 100% "done" are there good stopping points we can use for planning hand-off points?
- How does the grant planning effect this?
- Post ingest - it is helpful that Laura will be editing the metadata herself.
- Small (hopefully small) changes moving forward:
- Maggie would prefer to grab metadata directly from the Google sheet (moving from Google sheet to excel is error prone)
- Is it possible to remove empty columns from the Google sheet (Maggie - is there a good example of this?), for example the first batch included 36 empty columns.
- Metadata Versioning notes for Laura and Craig:
- If we (Laura, Craig and Maggie) are making changes to the metadata in DDR, then DDR becomes the master version of the metadata - not the google sheet.
- We cannot re-ingest the whole google sheet more than once, as it will overwrite what is in DDR.
- An exception is ingesting new content, ex: French translations. In this case we would ONLY ingest the French and not the whole sheet.
- High Level Takeaway moving forward: metadata ingest must happen in larger batches - ideally 1000 records or more
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