Hi Gregory,
Thanks so much for your comment. I am getting the sense that the general opinion is that there is not a lot to think about but simply converting ad hoc from XML if/when needed. I just had a look at the METS 2.0 documentation in GitHub and cannot really see any explicit/direct reference to Linked Data in it (although the original working group was interested in modelling the schema as a more LD-friendly schema). Nonetheless, the 2.0 documentation references hybrid/LD-compatible data exchange standard formats and protocols such as IIIF and BagIt, so who knows... I will post my question in the METS listserv, and see what they say.
Thanks again!
Best,
Manuela
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Hi Manuela,
Personally I'd recommend storing and managing your METS documents as XML and converting to JSON only at the point where you need to process them as JSON. That assumes you have the option of storing as XML. If your database is built mainly or only for JSON, then you'll have to do a one-time conversion from XML to JSON. In any case, as has already been said it's strictly a matter of conversion, and there are lots of tools that can take XML and output generic JSON in a lossless way. Whether you would then need to have another process to go from JSON to JSON-LD I don't know; that's outside my knowledge.
Hope this helps,
Greg
Gregory Murray
Director of Digital Initiatives
Wright Library
Princeton Theological Seminary
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might be worth spending a minute on some AI bots to play with this
at the end of the day it's an XML->JSON project and there are a bunch of tools that will streamline that
for instance here's a dumbed down python script with a streamlit interface i got out of claude.ai in a couple of queries
import streamlit as st
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import json
st.title('METS to JSON-LD Converter')
uploaded_file = st.file_uploader('Choose a METS XML file', type=['xml'])
if uploaded_file is not None:
# Load METS file
tree = ET.parse(uploaded_file)
root = tree.getroot()
# JSON-LD context
context = {
'@vocab': 'http://schema.org/<http://schema.org/>',
'dc': 'http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/<http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>'
}
jsonld = {'@context': context}
jsonld['metadata'] = []
# Parse METS and generate JSON-LD
for dmdSec in root.iter('dmdSec'):
# Extract metadata
md = {
'name': dmdSec.find('mdWrap/xmlData/mods/titleInfo/title').text,
'author': [{'@type': 'Person', 'name': namePart.text} for namePart in dmdSec.find('mdWrap/xmlData/mods/name')],
'datePublished': dmdSec.find('mdWrap/xmlData/mods/originInfo/dateIssued').text,
'publisher': {'@type': 'Organization', 'name': dmdSec.find('mdWrap/xmlData/mods/originInfo/publisher').text},
'genre': dmdSec.find('mdWrap/xmlData/mods/genre').text,
'description': dmdSec.find('mdWrap/xmlData/mods/abstract').text
}
jsonld['metadata'].append(md)
# Output JSON-LD file for download
json_txt = json.dumps(jsonld, indent=4)
st.download_button('Download JSON-LD', json_txt, 'metadata.jsonld')
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From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Manuela Pallotto Strickland <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 10:47 AM
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] METS in JSON-LD?
Hello,
I am posting this question on a couple of lists, so sincere apologies to those who might see it twice (or thrice).
Does anyone know of any work that has been/is being/will be done on 'a' METS JSON-LD serialization?
Any relevant info or comment in this re will be very much appreciated.
Thank you!
Best wishes,
Manuela
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