CSV Export in Omeka S

Omeka S
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Is it possible to quickly export all items of a Omeka S website to a csv file?

I think there is an option somewhere but cannot find it anymore.

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I don’t see any options under Items, Item Sets, Resource Template, or Site > Resources.

There is of course the classic plugin:
https://omeka.org/classic/plugins/CsvExport/

According to DanielKM’s master list, that plugin is not upgraded via this “UpgradeToOmekaS” plugin.

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The module UpgradeToOmekaS doesn’t upgrade anything, it installs Omeka S and the upgraded plugins, and convert the data. We have to wait that somebody upgrade one of these plugins.

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@ppr so to clarify, the simple answer is no, CSV Export is not yet upgraded for Omeka-S.

And, I misspoke in that the UpgradeToOmekaS module doesn’t achieve/accomplish the module updates itself, as Daniel points out it is just an installer module for those modules which have already been upgraded to be compatible with Omeka-S by the community at large.

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As far as I see there is no news on this. But what do people usually do for export? Are there recommendations for backups and /or migrations between instances?

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+1 (the lack of intuitive and user-friendly export options is concerning)

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In terms of backup, you can (and should) do that at the server level.
Export options could leverage the api

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Hi, could someone update me please: is it possible now to export from Omeka-s to csv and how?

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Merry, I don’t believe so.

I’ve also come to understand why this is a challenge over the past 2 years of working with Omeka, because the database that stores all of the items, metadata, and related information is a relational database with linked data structures which don’t translate easy to a “spreadsheet” view. Inevitably, something will be lost if you try to have 1 row per item.

Essentially, what needs to happen is a multiple-CSV file output that is zipped up and delivered to the end user. These files will not be very useful for much other than backup and re-import, so the CSV file structure would need to be standardized so that it could be re-imported.

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I have done this by querying the API for a JSON output of a set of items and then converted that JSON to CSV. It’s not a push-button solution, but it’s not very difficult.

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@SharonLeon It is working indeed but the csv output needs to be cleaned.

For those interested:

  1. Set (temporary) the max items displayed per page to a higher value than your number of items.
  2. Go to http://yoursite/api/items?item_set_id=X where X is the ID of your collection/item_set.
  3. Copy/paste (or wget) the output to a file.
  4. Use a json to csv converter to obtain a csv. This one (online) worked for me (see also json2csv (not tested by me).
  5. Open the csv will libreoffice-calc, set the column separator to comma only (or you will have columns detection issues) and start cleaning. There will be several columns per metadata. For example, bibo:transcriptOf uses all these columns:
bibo:transcriptOf/0/type bibo:transcriptOf/0/property_id bibo:transcriptOf/0/property_label bibo:transcriptOf/0/is_public bibo:transcriptOf/0/@id bibo:transcriptOf/0/value_resource_id bibo:transcriptOf/0/value_resource_name bibo:transcriptOf/0/url bibo:transcriptOf/0/display_title bibo:transcriptOf/0/thumbnail_url bibo:transcriptOf/0/thumbnail_title bibo:transcriptOf/0/thumbnail_type bibo:transcriptOf/1/type bibo:transcriptOf/1/property_id bibo:transcriptOf/1/property_label bibo:transcriptOf/1/is_public bibo:transcriptOf/1/@id bibo:transcriptOf/1/value_resource_id bibo:transcriptOf/1/value_resource_name bibo:transcriptOf/1/url bibo:transcriptOf/1/display_title bibo:transcriptOf/1/thumbnail_url bibo:transcriptOf/1/thumbnail_title bibo:transcriptOf/1/thumbnail_type
resource 83 transcript of true http://e-hp.ahp-numerique.fr/api/media/3688 3688 media Lettre H. Poincaré to Eugénie Launois (1/2) http://e-hp.ahp-numerique.fr/files/square/b02ec6ea546fba9b49a7ad68a2c6f8063cd0009b.jpg Lettre H. Poincaré to Eugénie Launois (1/2) image/jpeg resource 83 transcript of true http://e-hp.ahp-numerique.fr/api/media/3689 3689 media Lettre H. Poincaré to Eugénie Launois (2/2) http://e-hp.ahp-numerique.fr/files/square/2f894ecfe7e6c659471aae102e8ce0563b5e6524.jpg Lettre H. Poincaré to Eugénie Launois (2/2) image/jpeg

Of course, we need an intuitive option or module for Omeka S to achieve this in a better way.

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