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MI-DPLA / combine

Combine /kämˌbīn/ - Metadata Aggregator Platform
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Update single Records? #302

Open ghukill opened 5 years ago

ghukill commented 5 years ago

Encountered a scenario where 37 records were going to be updated at an OAI source, for a harvest that is about 50k records. This job then had a transform, and a validation merge, for a final publisihed set of records.

The logistics of partial OAI updates aside, what would it take to support the update of a single Record? Including downstream Records?

Should Combine support modifying Records outside of the pipeline/workflow?

Though pipelines and job re-running is powerful, there are undoubtedly going to be instances where quick edits might be helpful, and/or records essentially "live" in Combine, and represent the canonical source. In those instances, editing a Record would be helpful, but it would need to the following:

antmoth commented 4 years ago

Might not work for OAI but might be more doable for a static harvest. Needs more thinking.