On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 12:59:16 UTC+2, Alan Orth wrote:
>
> That looks very powerful. I currently use a mix of OpenRefine and Python 
> scripts[0] for various batch editing and cleanup tasks I have. The fact 
> that GLAMpipe connects straight to DSpace via the REST API makes it very 
> appealing, as I usually work on CSVs from the database or DSpace metadata 
> export. On that note, you should add some information to the README about 
> DSpace versions supported/tested, as we know the REST API has changed quite 
> a bit from DSpace 4.x to 6.x.
>

Thanks and good point, I forgot to mention that this works *only* with 
DSpace 6.
 

> One thing that is fantastic with OpenRefine is that you can view data in 
> facets, making it easy to find outliers, for example in authors or subjects.
>

Sort of facets are also available in GLAMpipe. You can group by field, so 
that you see unique values and counts.
 

> Regarding the project requirements, NodeJS is simple to install and manage 
> as a non-root user with NVM[1] on any platform, but I have an aversion to 
> MongoDB because of the frequent bad press it has gotten over the years 
> (security, data consistency, fanboys talking about it being "web scale"[2], 
> etc). Wouldn't it have been possible to use a modern PostgreSQL (>9.4 I 
> think?) with their document storage capabilities?
>

Certainly it would have been possible :). I sort of like the simplicity of 
Mongo and I like the syntax of its query. 
 

[0] https://github.com/ilri/DSpace/wiki/Scripts
> [1] https://github.com/creationix/nvm
> [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
>

point taken :)
 
Best,
Ari


>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:00 PM Ari <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>> I previously started a project called GLAMpipe, which aims to be a 
>> generic data mangling tool for GLAM data (Galleries, Libraries, Archives 
>> and Museums). The project is quite new, so things haven't settled yet. 
>>
>> Currently i'm extending GLAMpipe so that one could use to manipulata data 
>> in DSpace. 
>> DSpace nodes:
>> - DSpace collection import
>> - DSpace query import
>> - DSpace download bitstream
>> - DSpace create items
>> - DSpace edit metadata
>> - DSpace add bitsreams
>>
>> I made a short screencast of correcting author name in demo.dspace.org:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll_nKfB2otM
>>
>> In case you are interested and would like to test it out:
>> https://github.com/artturimatias/GLAMpipe
>>
>> It is a nodejs application with MongoDB. GLAMpipe can be run via Docker 
>> or as a regular nodejs app in Linux. 
>> Testing is almost non-existent at the moment, so things can (and will) 
>> blow up occasionally. 
>>
>> Any comments or suggestion are welcome!
>>
>> Best,
>> Ari Häyrinen
>> Information system expert
>> Jyväskylä University Library
>>
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