Have been looking at Hive Explorer (a cut down Hive interface).One feature I looked at was the 'import from file' option in the metadata section of the upload screen.
It turns out that you can create an xml file (referencing a metadata scheme) that contains the metadata you want to record for the document you are uploading.
You can use this as the metadata data input for your file.Why is this interesting?
From a purely technical an implementation perspective - we now know that Hive can access a document and use it to populate metadata fields. This means that if you can generate an xml file that contains the metadata you want to capture - there is a 'relatively' simple process available to upload this data at this same time as uploading a document.
Once uploaded - view the metadata for the field using 'Export Item Metadata' option. This loads an xml view for the document in a web browser - and this should match what was written in the xml docuent that was uploaded with the document.
How useful this is will become clearer in time....work continues....
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