Data Migration and Conversion Processes in THDL

This site is devoted to technical documentation of various processes used to convert data from one form to another form within THDL. This applies when, for example, image captions are imported from a spreadsheet into our database, or dictionary entires are converted from a MS Word table into our database.

Dictionary Importation

To import a dictionary into the THDL collaborative dictionary, download and use this script, written by Travis McCauley. Its present form is an old script, after which the dictionary was changed to use Hibernate instead of Torque. It needs to be modified to save Lex Components using Hibernate instead of Torque. The main two objects you will use are Meta and TransitionalData. In the new object model, the TransitionalData object wraps a Meta object instead of extending it.The data file must be read in and then mapped to the Lex Component object model.