Is it possible to import / bulk upload content and associated metadata?

We are just getting started with the Oracle portal (migrating from a previous portal vendor) and I wanted to check with other users to see if what we're thinking about trying is within the realm of feasibility.
Here's our situation. In our current portal, have several thousand users, probably a couple thousand pages, and approximately 15 GB of files being managed. The pages and navigation schemes will have to be re-designed to fit the new Oracle paradigm, but we need some way to migrate the files (and the metadata) in a semi-automatic way. We don't want to just move EVERYTHING in bulk, because the entire premise for navigation is different in Oracle and we want to make our user communities "scrub" their data just a bit and have control over where it goes in their new environment.
Our idea for getting the data out of the old portal is this:
Develop a portlet that will allow administrators to select files to be downloaded in bulk to a PC. The portlet zips up the files and creates a flat file containing the metadata for the content (name, type, 512 character description, author, create date, modified date, location folder, and topics it was associated with (aka perspectives?).
Then, we want to try to create an import capability or portlet within Oracle that will place the files where the administrator wants them in Oracle and assign the metadata from the flat file to the attributes for that content.
- Is this within the realm of feasibility?
- Are there better approaches?
- Has anyone done anything similar? If so, can you share your approach?
- Do you have any advice to help point me in the right direction?

The way to do this is to use the Portal content area APIs. Unfortunately, these APIs are not yet available for Portal Release 2 - they're scheduled for early 2003.
You may want to consider using the new WebClipping or Omniportlet features to publish your existing content into portal, until you are able to migrate it to the Portal repository.

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