[Bulk actions librarians] MVP batch upload records

[mietcls]

Story

Minimum viable batch upload for records. Feedback welcome. Find more context below under "Case".

Based on the decision made in https://github.com/ugent-library/biblio-backoffice/issues/1069 – we decided not to create a terminal interface for librarians to do bulk operations.

Wireframes – feedback welcome

Location: in "Batch", below "Batch add projects"

Normal state:

• fill out record type TBD
• record in JSON Would be good to have an example for datasets and publications (TBD) in json?

Error state:

Success state:

Scaffolding in code can be found in this branch: https://github.com/ugent-library/biblio-backoffice/tree/feature/batch-import

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Case

To make this an end-to-ed valuable case, we can use the alternative identifiers for datasets as a first step.

Problem statement value for researchers and university

• Different faculties use different platforms to deposit their datasets. This results into different identifiers.

  • There are a lot of identifiers. Connecting and mapping them all with result into a lot of work and maintenance.
  • Some identifiers are not fully grown. The market still needs to stabilise.
  • There are not a lot of trusted aggregators in the market we can use.

• The temporary solution: manual import of datasets.

  • This goes into the idea that researchers would never start from 0 in the future.

• Opportunity

  • We can, as a university, support researchers by already exploring the web and find relevant datasets.
  • We could do this by bulk uploading those datasets for them (in json or excel, mapped on our data structure), so they do not have to start from 0.

• Future

  • We can use the "Plato import case" to turn this into a better experience
  • We can be ready for a future where we only use trusted parties and link to their information from our platform, if we log those identifiers already.

Technical value

We can call this a "good excuse" project to make sure we can do asynchronous (bulk) actions that take a long time to complete, and you can navigate away while the job completes.

[nicolasfranck]

"Add project" is already possible, right?

[mietcls]

@nicolasfranck Yes, see https://backoffice.bibliotest.ugent.be/publication/batch for other options as well. This is a separate feature.

[mietcls]

We will for now ask for examples first.

[mietcls]

Tracked in https://github.com/ugent-library/biblio-backoffice/issues/1099