long_term_preservation

Versionning of the sip files for the CINES.

Python version needed : 2.5 or after.

Install

• rename the file conf/conf.default.json into conf/conf.MY_PROJECT.json where MY_PROJECT is the name of my project and edit it to put your own SRU/SRW server url
• mkvirtualenv long_term_archiving
• pip install lxml
• pip install paramiko

How to use it ?

long_term_preservation can be used with any system compatible with python 2.5 by invoking the command

python scripts/long_term_archiving.py MY_PROJECT

How to create a mapping json file that will build the XML from another XML ?

each method has an attribute "method" that is one of these values : "xpath", "srusrw" each method has an attribute "paths" that is th paths to access the value. This attibutes is an array and the successive values matches are concatenated those methods are tested sequentially and the first that match a value is the correct one (the next ones are not executed)

tag mandatory description dataType example

name yes name of the tag created String "title"

attributes no associated array of the keys / values of attributes of the tag JSObject of keys / values {"language" : "fra", "country" : "france"}

access_methods yes ordered list that describe the methods to extract data to put as content of the tag array of JSObject

access_methods > method yes protocol to use to extract data String of ["xpath", "srusrw"]

access_methods > paths yes paths to access the value array of Strings [".//mods:namePart[@type="given"]", ".//mods:namePart[@type="family"]"]

access_methods > filter no filter to apply after that the data are extracted String of ["concat", "all", "first"]

default_value no If nothing match, set default value as content tag String "Non renseigné"

Credits

Sciences Po - Bibliothèque

Licence

This code is produced under the licence LGPL and CECILL-C.

Please feel free to reuse and modify this code.