Comment 3 for bug 1049106

I checked in and pushed out a change to scribe2-upload.php to add it via
next_cmd earlier this morning.

On 9/11/12 11:32 AM, Hank Bromley wrote:
> In the ordinary case, we extract scandate, scanner, operator (and, when
> present, missingpages, foldout-operator, and republisher) from the
> scandata file at the beignning of the derive. Sheetfed items have no
> scandata file initially - although a bare-bones one is created for them
> during the derive - so there's no place to extract those metadata from.
> It's true that some of that info is visible in the task history, but
> most is not, and in any case we have no mechanism for finding such
> metadata in the task history and using it.
>
> I don't remember whether we discussed these metadata when the sheetfed
> process was set up, but if we do need to have scandate, etc., we'll need
> to establish some mechanism for uploading and extracting that info.
>
> Two ideas occur to me right off: (1) the upload script could add a
> next_cmd arg for a modify_xml.php task that would add the desired info
> to meta.xml, and (2) we could make use of the metadata derivation
> pathway - you'd upload an additional simple file containing the element
> names and values, and we'd add those to meta.xml during the derive.
>