importing into DSpace

I finally managed to import a text file into DSpace today. It was "Decline of Science in England" by Charles Babbage. Here's how I did it:

• create an import directory. I called mine test-import.
• Create a directory below the import directory. I named it decline, after the book.
• Put the text file into the directory 'decline'.
• Create the file dublin_core.xml, in the 'decline' directory. The file looked like this:

  <dublin_core>
      <dcvalue element="title" qualifier="none">
          Decline of Science in England
      </dcvalue>
  
      <dcvalue element="subject" qualifier="none">
         science
      </dcvalue>
  </dublin_core>
  

• Create a file called content. The file contains a list of filenames, one per line. In this case I had body (which was the name of my text file) and preface, which was a separate preface file I created.

To import the item I then created a community and a collection under it, and gave this command:

bin\dsrun org.dspace.app.itemimport.ItemImport -a -e emailAddress
-m mapfile.out -c 125050010/1469 -s test-import