gcis-isbn-validator

Scripts used to validate and clean up ISBN formats in GCIS-DEV.

What this script does?

"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"].

Requirements

1. Python:

• Python 3.4

2. API access: (isbn-validator-post use only)

   Positional arg:

   Gcis.conf (YAML format) file containing:

    - url
    - userinfo
    - key
   

   Optional arg: (*use only if Gcis.conf file is not avaliable)

    -username and api key
   

Installation

Clone git repo "gcis-isbn-validator".

Usage

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

Notes/References

*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