The level of quality control (QC) for metadata will vary based on the nature of the project, the project’s end goal, and the project’s metadata specifications.Metadata is created at multiple points throughout the digital project life cycle. For example, rights […]
The other really significant advancement has reduced my workload significantly with respect to batch publication of new concepts (as RDF) into Nomisma. I would occasionally receive spreadsheets of data to upload into Nomisma, which required me to author a PHP […]
LXML is an awesome python tool for reading and editing xml files, and we’ve been using it extensively during the grant period to do programmatic cleanup to our legacy EAD files. To give an example of just how powerful the […]
XQuery is a simple, yet powerful, scripting language designed to enable users without formal programming training to extract, transform, and manipulate XML data. Moreover, the language is an accepted standard and a W3C recommendation much like its sister standards, XML […]
The File Information Tool Set (FITS) identifies, validates and extracts technical metadata for a wide range of file formats. It acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are […]
by Christina Harlow Data munging, or the work of remediating, enhancing and transforming library datasets for new or improved uses, has become more important and staff-inclusive in many library technology discussions and projects. Many times we know how we want […]
by Christina Harlow An OpenRefine reconciliation service for GeoNames. Tested with, working on python 2.7.10, 3.4.3. The service queries the GeoNames API and provides normalized scores across queries for reconciling in Refine. https://github.com/cmh2166/geonames-reconcile
by Christina Harlow University of Tennessee-Knoxville Metadata Quality Analysis Scripts. A set of metadata harvesting and analysis scripts, largely built off the model/skeleton of Mark Phillips’ wonderful work. https://github.com/cmh2166/metadataQA
by Mark Phillips Simple command line oai-pmh harvester written in Python. https://github.com/vphill/pyoaiharvester
by Mark Phillips Python script for breaking or atomizing OAI-PMH repositories into simpler text formats. https://github.com/vphill/metadata_breakers