Batch editing of records in Islandora using external tools.

1. Islandora from the Outside

2. Hosting environment

3. Levels of access

4. Work arounds
OAI-PMH
API
https://github.com/fsulib/metadataWorkflowResources
LXML Python library

5. Metadata assessment
● Built on Mark Phillips’ pyoaiharvest
– https://github.com/vphill/pyoaiharvester
– http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7818
● plow.sh
● Basic collection level statistics
● Scheduled to run monthly

9. Pulling
● pyoaiharvester.py
– Download records by set or collection
● pullRecords.py
– Download records from list of PIDs

10. Editing/Querying
● XSLT
● Python scripting
– Such as addFragment.py

11. Gluing it all
together
● csv4.py
● Quality
reconciliation
workflow

12. The bottle-neck
● Drupal doesn’t allow POST requests
● No simple way to re-upload edited MODS

13. Next steps
● pymods – https://github.com/mrmiguez/pymods
– a la carte spreadsheets
● Automating LC linked data look-ups –
https://github.com/mshort/dime_novels