METS Library

This repository contains general Python functions for METS XML handling.

Requirements

Installation and usage requires Python 3.9 or newer. The software is tested with Python 3.9 on AlmaLinux 9 release.

Installation using RPM packages (preferred)

Installation on Linux distributions is done by using the RPM Package Manager. See how to configure the PAS-jakelu RPM repositories to setup necessary software sources.

After the repository has been added, the package can be installed by running the following command:

sudo dnf install python3-mets

Usage

Import the library with:

import mets

All the functions can now be used with calling mets.<function>.

For example, the div() function in structmap_base.py can be used with:

div_elem = mets.div(type_attr='xxx')

This creates a METS <div> element to div_elem as lxml.etree.

Please, see the METS documentation for more information: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/

Installation using Python Virtualenv for development purposes

Create a virtual environment:

python3 -m venv venv

Run the following to activate the virtual environment:

source venv/bin/activate

Install the required software with commands:

pip install --upgrade pip==20.2.4 setuptools
pip install -r requirements_github.txt
pip install .

To deactivate the virtual environment, run deactivate. To reactivate it, run the source command above.

Copyright

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.