This page analyzes the structure of DSpace exports from an uncustomized (i.e. out of the box) DSpace installation.

Item export

Collection export

Used the following command to export a two-item collection with the handle 123456789-6 from DSpace:

./dspace packager -d -a -t AIP -e <user name> -i 123456789-6 calamy.zip

This results in the export of three zipped packages: one for the collection and one for each of the items:

The extracted contents of each zipped file are shown in this screenshot: