BAroQUe: Bentley Audiovisual Quality control Utility
The Bentley Audiovisual Quality control Utility (BAroQUe) is a Python 3-based Command Line Interface (CLI) executable primarily intended for in-house use. It performs Quality Control (QC)--with microservices to validate directory and file naming structure, METS XML and WAV BEXT chunks--for audio digitized by vendors according to Bentley specifications.
This README includes general installation and usage documentation for BAroQUe. For technical documentation intended to assist developers, check the project's development documentation.
- Dallas Pillen (djpillen)
- Devon Proudfoot (devonproudfoot)
- Hyeeyoung Kim (hyeeyoungkim)
- Liz Gadelha (lizgad)
- Max Eckard (eckardm)
- Maryse Lundering-Timpano (MaryseLT)
- Matt Adair (umadair)
- Melissa Hernández-Durán (mhdezd)
- Tim Baron (tlbaron)
- Requires Python 3.0 or higher.
- cx_Freeze: To build an executable file
- dateparser: To compare dates in metadata exports and METS XML
- lxml: To parse METS XML files
- openpyxl: To read xlsx files
- tqdm: To make loops show a smart progress meter
- Clone this repository to your computer
cd baroque
pip install -r requirements.txt
usage: baroque.py [-h] [-d DESTINATION] [-s] [-m] [-w] [--all] SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE
Positional Arguments:
Argument | Description |
---|---|
SOURCE_DIR | Path to source directory |
EXPORT_FILE | Path to metadata export file |
Actions:
Argument | Description |
---|---|
-s, --structure | Validate directory and file structure For more information, see Structure Validation documentation. |
-m, --mets | Validate METS For more information, see METS Validation documentation. |
-w, --wav | Validate WAV BEXT chunks For more information, see BEXT Validation documentation. |
--all | Run all validations |
Optional Arguments:
Argument | Description |
---|---|
-h, --help | show the help message and exit |
-d DESTINATION, --destination DESTINATION | Path to destination for reports |
BAroQUe's functionality is implemented in baroque.py
, which is a command line script that takes as its input a minimum of 3 arguments:
SOURCE_DIR
The path to a source_directory that corresponds to either a shipment, a collection, or an item directory
EXPORT_FILE
The path to a metadata export (CSV or XLSX) corresponding to the shipment to validate against. BAroQUe expects this metadata export to contain at least the following column headers: "DigFile Calc", CollectionTitle", "ItemTitle", and "ItemDate".
[-d, --destination]
An optional argument (-d, --destination
) with a path to a destination directory where reports and logs will be stored. In the absence of this argument, BAroQUe checks a .baroque
configuration file in the current user's home directory. Failing that, BAroQUe defaults to a reports
directory in the BAroQUe installation's base directory.
Actions
The optional validation action(s) to be run against the source directory (otherwise BAroQUe will just characterize the source directory as a shipment, collection or item)
$ baroque.py SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE -s/--structure
or, with the optional destination argument...
$ baroque.py SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE -d/--destination /path/to/reports -s/--structure
$ baroque.py SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE -m/--mets
or, with the optional destination argument...
$ baroque.py SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE -d/--destination /path/to/reports -m/--mets
$ baroque.py SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE -w/--wav
or, with the optional destination argument...
$ baroque.py SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE -d/--destination /path/to/reports -w/--wav
This steps runs all validation checks described above.
$ baroque.py SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE --all
or, with the optional destination argument...
$ baroque.py SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE -d/--destination /path/to/reports --all