Next time you’re logged in to Scalar, head over to the new Import/Export tab in the Dashboard. Once, there, you’ll find our newest addition to Scalar’s content management system: the new tab allows users to import, export and backup all pages and relationships in a Scalar book with ease.

The Export area allows users to create a single output of all pages and relationships in your Scalar book as an RDF file in either JSON or XML format. This file can be saved as a backup for future use, or for importing into another RDF-aware system. You can even feed the RDF-JSON file back into the Import area at a later date to re-create the book’s content.

In the Import area you can pull all pages and relationships from another public book using its URL. Simply grab the URL of the source book and place it into the form–Scalar will do the rest (with a few considerations; see Support Notes in the Import/Export tab for a list of attributes which will not transfer).

You can also import snippets of a Scalar book. For example, you may wish to import just a single path and its pages from a source book. Or, only the media. Any content type can be acquired by visiting our tool for this task, the API Explorer. Its friendly interface allows you to easily generate the appropriate RDF-JSON output by selecting the portion of a Scalar book you’d like to export and clicking “Get API Results.” For instance, if you’d like to only export the contents of one path within a book, simply insert the url for that path into the appropriate field in the API Explorer (be sure to set “Return related content with up to 1 degree(s) of separation”) and click “Get API Results.” Finally, cut-and-paste the resulting RDF-JSON into the “Paste RDF” tab of the Dashboard’s Import area.

(API Explorer link: http://scalar.me/anvc/tools/apiexplorer)