README.md

Internet-Archive

This repository contains the scripts used by Wikitongues to prepare oral histories for upload to the Internet Archive.

Requirements

• Staging directory created using the Library of Congress scripts
• Node.js

Usage

• First run npm install
• Make the install script executable: chmod 755 ./ia-install.sh
• Run the install script: ./ia-install.sh
• Create a config file named ia-config in your home directory:

IA_Staging='/path/to/staging'
IA_AIRTABLE_APIKEY='{api key}'
IA_AIRTABLE_BASE='{base id}'

• Run ia-prepare to create a spreadsheet for bulk uploading
  • For all directories in staging: ia-prepare
  • For all directories from a specific year: e.g. ia-prepare -y 2020
  • For all directories from a specific month: e.g. ia-prepare -y 2020 -m 11
  • This will create upload.csv in the staging directory containing metadata for each oral history to be uploaded
  • Error log written to ~/ia-log
• Now, run the Internet Archive command-line tool from the staging directory to do a bulk upload:

ia upload --spreadsheet=upload.csv