Scripts used to validate and clean up ISBN formats in GCIS-DEV.
"isbn-validator-post" is used to ONLY extract, clean, and repost onto GCIS-DEV
Details:
1. Accepts Gcis.conf credentials as command line argument [example: https://metacpan.org/pod/Gcis::Client#CONFIGURATION]
2. Parses metadata from GCIS-DEV into a JSON dictionary
3. Extracts the "isbn" key from the dictionary and updates the isbn to a cannonical ISBN 13 character format
4. Posts updated JSON dictionary back into GCIS-DEV using credentials from command line arguments.
Other scripts are used to compare metadata. If the metadata from GCIS-DEV matches the metadata from other database, then the cleaned ISBN is considered valid. Each script is dedicated to a specfic database (World Cat, Google, Library of Congress, etc.).
Each of the following scripts:
1. *Extracts all ISBN formats from GCIS-DEV
2. Converts ISBN to a validated ISBN-13 format
3. Writes metadata from GCIS-DEV and other Database onto text file [example: "{database}-DATA.txt"].
4. Writes errors from GCIS-DEV and other Database onto text file [example: "{database}-ERROR.txt"].
- Python:
- Python 3.4
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API access: (isbn-validator-post use only)
Positional arg:
Gcis.conf (YAML format) file containing:
- url - userinfo - keyOptional arg: (*use only if Gcis.conf file is not avaliable)
-username and api key
Clone git repo "gcis-isbn-validator".
To execute script, open command line and change directory to location of git repo.
Enter into command line:
~python [SCRIPT.py]
*Some scripts may require extra arguments. To view them, insert a "--help" flag at the end of script
~python [SCRIPT.py] --help
*Scripts that require command line arguments:
- isbn-validator-post.py
- isbndb_isbn_validator.py
Incomplete Scripts:
- amazon_isbn_validator.py
Issue: Implementing Amazon Request into script and parsing the Amazon metadata
- dbpedia_isbn_valdator.py
Issue: No ISBN results when running ISBN SPARQL query