More user-friendly ways to batch upload of metadata and files for multiple datasets
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Feature: File Upload & Handling
Feature: Metadata
Type: Feature
User Role: Depositor
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Description
We've received a couple of suggestions to provide batch upload of metadata and files for multiple datasets. Could this be part of the user interface (or without having to write scripts)?
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing user-interface upload workflow and any current batch or scripted upload entry points. Clarify whether the goal is a UI workflow, a script-free alternative, or both, then define how metadata and files for multiple datasets are selected, validated, and submitted.
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Assessment
- Domain
- full-stack
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100