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diff --git a/docs/source/siteadmin/commandline-upload.rst b/docs/source/siteadmin/commandline-upload.rst index be19df58..69098312 100644 --- a/docs/source/siteadmin/commandline-upload.rst +++ b/docs/source/siteadmin/commandline-upload.rst @@ -15,7 +15,13 @@ Command-line uploading ====================== -Want to submit media via the command line? It's fairly easy to do:: +If you're a site administrator and have access to the server then you +can use the 'addmedia' task. If you're just a user and want to upload +media by the command line you can. This can be done with the pump.io +API. There is `p <https://github.com/xray7224/p/>`_, which will allow you +to easily upload media from the command line, follow p's docs to do that. + +To use the addmedia command:: ./bin/gmg addmedia username your_media.jpg @@ -39,3 +45,70 @@ You can also pass in the `--celery` option if you would prefer that your media be passed over to celery to be processed rather than be processed immediately. +============================ +Command-line batch uploading +============================ + +There's another way to submit media, and it can be much more powerful, although +it is a bit more complex. + + ./bin/gmg batchaddmedia admin /path/to/your/metadata.csv + +This is an example of what a script may look like. The important part here is +that you have to create the 'metadata.csv' file.:: + + media:location,dcterms:title,dcterms:creator,dcterms:type + "http://www.example.net/path/to/nap.png","Goblin taking a nap",,"Image" + "http://www.example.net/path/to/snore.ogg","Goblin Snoring","Me","Audio" + +The above is an example of a very simple metadata.csv file. The batchaddmedia +script would read this and attempt to upload only two pieces of media, and would +be able to automatically name them appropriately. + +The csv file +============ +The location column +------------------- +The location column is the one column that is absolutely necessary for +uploading your media. This gives a path to each piece of media you upload. This +can either a path to a local file or a direct link to remote media (with the +link in http format). As you can see in the example above the (fake) media was +stored remotely on "www.example.net". + +Other internal nodes +-------------------- +There are other columns which can be used by the script to provide information. +These are not stored as part of the media's metadata. You can use these columns to +provide default information for your media entry, but as you'll see below, it's +just as easy to provide this information through the correct metadata columns. + +- **id** is used to identify the media entry to the user in case of an error in the batchaddmedia script. +- **license** is used to set a license for your piece a media for mediagoblin's use. This must be a URI. +- **title** will set the title displayed to mediagoblin users. +- **description** will set a description of your media. + +Metadata columns +---------------- +Other columns can be used to provide detailed metadata about each media entry. +Our metadata system accepts any information provided for in the +`RDFa Core Initial Context`_, and the batchupload script recognizes all of the +resources provided within it. + +.. _RDFa Core Initial Context: http://www.w3.org/2011/rdfa-context/rdfa-1.1 + +The uploader may include the metadata for each piece of media, or +leave them blank if they want to. A few columns from `Dublin Core`_ are +notable because the batchaddmedia script also uses them to set the default +information of uploaded media entries. + +.. _Dublin Core: http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/User_Guide + +- **dc:title** sets a title for your media entry. +- **dc:description** sets a description of your media entry. + +If both a metadata column and an internal node for the title are provided, mediagoblin +will use the internal node as the media entry's display name. This makes it so +that if you want to display a piece of media with a different title +than the one provided in its metadata, you can just provide different data for +the 'dc:title' and 'title' columns. The same is true of the 'description' and +'dc:description'. |