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Gathering TitlesYou can gather a site immediately and you can also set a schedule to gather a site either at regular intervals (e.g. monthly, quarterly, annual) or on dates that you specify. Before gathering a title you should ensure that the basic management details for the title are up-to-date. For example, if you are about to archive a title its Status should be set at "National Preservation" and the Standing should be set at "current". Procedures covered in this section include: Basic Procedure for Gathering a Title Immediately
High Priority GatheringsSometimes you may need to set a high priority gathering, for example when gathering election campaign sites in order to ensure that they are captured if you think they may disappear suddenly. The high priority option places your gather request at the head of the gather queue so that it will begin gathering when the gatherer has the next free slot. The high priority option should only be used when absolutely necessary. To set a high priority gather click on the High Priority tick box before clicking the Gather Now button. Title - Gather Screen Setting a Gathering Schedule
Setting Specific Dates for Gathering
Gathering FiltersTo specify gathering filters click on the Options tab on the Title - Gather screen. This will display a screen (see below) that allows you to add URL filters, passwords, additional URLs etc. NB: If you want to set gathering filters for a site that you want to gather immediately (i.e. using the Gather Now button), you must firstly set a gathering schedule (e.g. "Never"), create the filters and finish (so that you go back to the Title - Management screen). This process saves the filters. You can then go back into the Title - Gather screen and and activate the Gather Now option. To create a filter:
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Gathering publisher supplied filesThese instructions refer specifically to those files typically supplied as an email attachment (not whole sites supplied by FTP. Often such email supplied files are in PDF format). These files need to be gathered into PANDAS in order for them to be processed and archived. When a file is supplied by email you should:
NB: If you have more than one file to gather on any given day for the same title you should use the procedures detailed above only for the first file. You should use the Add File facility on the Title - Process screen to add other files to the instance already created by gathering the initial file. Title - Gather Screen for publisher supplied gather method | EU Manual | PANDAS Contents | Back |Next
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Last updated 29 August 2001 |