metadata.md

Dataverse Metadata Blocks

This is about handling upstream changes to "system" metadata blocks and how to handle custom metadata block support.

See also: Upstream documentation about customizing metadata

Add custom metadata blocks

Please put any metadata TSV files to the /metadata directory of the jobs container below.

This can happen via

• custom/derived images
• volume mounts
• ConfigMap files
• sidecar container(s), downloading/cloning/checking out/...

ConfigMaps seem to be the easiest option, but in case you use a large amount of custom metadata blocks, you might want to use another method.

Update Dataverse metadata blocks

Simply deploy a metadata update job:

kubectl create -f k8s/dataverse/jobs/metadata-update.yaml

Remember: you will need to get your custom metadata inside that job somehow, see above.

Force re-export of citation metadata after update

Especially when the core citation.tsv metadata schema changed, you will need to re-export all citation metadata. A simple job does the trick:

kubectl create -f k8s/dataverse/jobs/metadata-reexport.yaml

Having a large set of published dataverses and datasets, you might want to run this during off-hours.

See also: upstream docs.

Update Solr Search Index

TODO for release 4.17 containing necessary scripts.