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= Import Plugin Tutorial 1: CSV =

In this tutorial we will look at creating a relatively simple plugin to import eprints into our repository by reading files containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-Separated_Values comma-separated values]. We won't be dealing with documents and files, but will be focusing on importing eprint metadata.

Import plugins are inherently more complicated than export plugins because of the error checking that must be done, however in this example error checking has been kept to a minimum to simplify the example. In a "real" plugin you should check that the appropriate metadata fields are set for a given type of eprint, and unfortunately there appears to be no quick way to do this.