Automatic Metadata during migration

[moredead]

I have an NTFS filestore of 300K documents and would like to migrate these from the massive folder structure to a library with metadata in an Alfresco document library.

I want to set metadata according to the location in the existing folder structure, and on keywords that may be in the title or in the document. There is some variation in the way documents are titled and in their format, but I believe that doing most of this automatically is the best way to add the metadata. Those not picked up in the migration could be finished off manually.

Can this be done? Has anyone done it? How did it go?

Or am I going to have to pay someone to write some kind of script to do this ( which I probably dont have the budget to do?

I believe that this can be done with Sharepoint  using ActiveNavigation. But these are way too expensive.

Thanks,

Lawrence

[mrogers]

Depending upon your requirements Alfresco may do this automatically.    It depends upon what your rules are.

[rmacian]

Alfresco has some defaults metadata extratcors, it can obtain title, author,  from word or pdf documents. This will be done automatically. If you would to modify something else,  you will have to write an script and a file a part which should point to the metadata to be filled

The best way to do such type of massive upload would be configuring FTP on alfresco and upload them all. Take care if you have more than 1000 documents in the same folder because it will cause you some problems in terms of performance.

I would set more than one openoffice (jodconverter) port because you will enter in a deep indexing cycle and this will consume a lot of process