CKAN to DSpace Migration Tool

Prerequisites

• Python >= 3.5
• python-requests

Run pip -r requirements.txt to install the required dependencies

Configuration

The configuration tool requires the following parameters to be set in config.ini:

[ckan]
RootUrl: Root url of CKAN installation
RestUrl: CKAN rest url path

[dspace]
RootUrl: Root url of DSpace installation
RestUrl: DSpace rest url path
CommunityId: Id of DSpace community to import the data into (optional)
UserEmail: DSpace user's email
UserPassword: DSpace user's password

If no CommunityId is specified the tool queries the list of existing communities and imports the data into the first community in the list.

Running

Run python migrate.py --help for instructions.

Available Commands

list-ckan

Lists the public contents of the configured ckan repository.

list-dspace

Lists the public contents of the configured dspace repository.

migrate-ckan-to-dspace

Migrate the configured ckan repository to dspace. This command assumes that the dspace repository contains at least one community.