Generally we want people to upload documents in accessible formats
like PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. This check warns if a file
is using an uncommon extension.
Now it will print just the part of the metadata value that contains
the suspicious character (up to 80 characters, so we don't make the
line break on terminals that use 80 character width by default).
Also, print the name of the field in which the metadata value is so
that it is easier for the user to locate.
AGROVOC validation is now disabled by default, but can be enabled
on a field-by-field basis. For example, countries and regions are
also present in AGROVOC. Fields with these values can be enabled
using the new `--agrovoc-fields` option.
I reworked the script output to show the field name when printing
an invalid term so that the user knows in which field the term is.
The latter is a fork that hasn't been updated since 2016 and the
original still seems to be well maintained, with recent database
updates as well as tests for Python 3.7.
Also, pycountry supports ISO 3166-2 (administrative zones), which
we could eventually use for sub regions.
We actually only need to see if there are more than zero matches
because a term like "Nigeria" will match in English, Spanish, etc,
whereas terms that *really* don't match will have zero results.
Will validate against ISO 639-2 or ISO 639-3 depending on how long
the language field is. Otherwise will return that the language is
invalid.
Does not currently have any support for generic values like "Other".
These standalone characters often indicate issues with encoding or
copy/paste in languages with accents like French and Spanish. For
example: foreˆt should be forêt.
It is not possible to fix these issues automatically, but this will
print a warning so you can notify the owner of the data.
I'm only concerned with validating issue dates here. In DSpace they
are generally always YYYY, YYY-MM, or YYYY-MM-DD (though in theory
they could be any valid ISO8601 format).
This also checks for cases where the date is missing and where the
metadata has specified multiple dates like "1990||1991", as this is
valid, but there is no practical value for it in our system.