A simple but opinionated metadata quality checker and fixer designed to work with CSVs in the DSpace ecosystem. Supports multi-value fields using the standard DSpace value separator ("||").

Written and tested using Python 3.7.

Checks

Supports checking the validity of the following metadata elements:

ISSN
ISBN
Multi-value separators

Fixes

Supports fixing the following metadata issues:

Leading, trailing, and excessive whitespace

Todo

Reporting / summary
Real logging
Fix invalid multi-value separators? Check if there are any valid cases of "|" in the database
Date validation

License

This work is licensed under the GPLv3.

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