README.md

agentarchives

Clients to retrieve, add, and modify records from archival management systems.

Installation

Agentarchives is on PyPI!

pip install agentarchives

Or you can install it directly from git

pip install git+https://github.com/artefactual-labs/agentarchives.git

Dependency issue on MacOs

Agentarchvies depends on the mysqlclient package which has a bug which can possibly fail an install when using homebrew on MacOs computers. A solution suggested on the mysqlclient site is to change mysql_config on or about line 112:

# Create options
libs="-L$pkglibdir"
libs="$libs -l "

to

# Create options
libs="-L$pkglibdir"
libs="$libs -lmysqlclient -lssl -lcrypto"

See also this blog.

Usage

This library can be used to interact with Archivists Toolkit, ArchivesSpace, and Access To Memory (AtoM).

ArchivesSpace

First, you need to import the module in your Python script:

from agentarchives import archivesspace

Then, initiate a new client, passing in the URL, user name, password, port and repository for your AS instance:

client = archivesspace.ArchivesSpaceClient('http://localhost', 'admin', 'admin', 8089, 2)

Using your client, call one of the included functions (documented in client.py). For example, the following:

    resource = client.get_record('/repositories/2/resources/1')
    print resource

will return:

{
    "classifications": [],
    "create_time": "2015-11-17T00:23:19Z",
    "created_by": "admin",
    "dates": [
        {
            "create_time": "2015-11-17T00:23:19Z",
            "created_by": "admin",
            "date_type": "bulk",
            "expression": "maybe 1999",
            "jsonmodel_type": "date",
            "label": "creation",
            "last_modified_by": "admin",
            "lock_version": 0,
            "system_mtime": "2015-11-17T00:23:19Z",
            "user_mtime": "2015-11-17T00:23:19Z"
        }
    ],
    "deaccessions": [],
    "extents": [
        {
            "create_time": "2015-11-17T00:23:19Z",
            "created_by": "admin",
            "extent_type": "cassettes",
            "jsonmodel_type": "extent",
            "last_modified_by": "admin",
            "lock_version": 0,
            "number": "1",
            "portion": "whole",
            "system_mtime": "2015-11-17T00:23:19Z",
            "user_mtime": "2015-11-17T00:23:19Z"
        }
    ],
    "external_documents": [],
    "external_ids": [],
    "id_0": "blah",
    "instances": [],
    "jsonmodel_type": "resource",
    "language": "aar",
    "last_modified_by": "admin",
    "level": "collection",
    "linked_agents": [],
    "linked_events": [],
    "lock_version": 0,
    "notes": [],
    "publish": false,
    "related_accessions": [],
    "repository": {
        "ref": "/repositories/2"
    },
    "restrictions": false,
    "revision_statements": [],
    "rights_statements": [],
    "subjects": [],
    "suppressed": false,
    "system_mtime": "2015-11-17T00:23:19   Z",
    "title": "blah",
    "tree": {
        "ref": "/repositories/2/resources/1/tree"
    },
    "uri": "/repositories/2/resources/1",
    "user_mtime": "2015-11-17T00:23:19   Z"
}

Access To Memory (AtoM)

First, you need to import the module in your Python script:

from agentarchives import atom

Then, initiate a new client, passing in the URL, REST API access token, password, and port for your AtoM instance:

client = atom.AtomClient('http://localhost', '68405800c6612599', 80)

Using your client, call one of the included functions (documented in client.py). For example, the following:

    resource = client.get_record('test-fonds')
    print resource

Will return:

{
    "dates": [
        {
            "begin": "2014-01-01",
            "end": "2015-01-01",
            "type": "Creation"
        }
    ],
    "level_of_description": "Fonds",
    "notes": [
        {
            "content": "Note content",
            "type": "general"
        }
    ],
    "publication_status": "Draft",
    "reference_code": "F2",
    "title": "Test fonds"
}

Current AtoM client limitations (versus the ArchivesSpace client):

• Identifier wildcard search not supported
• Creation of multiple notes not supported
• Nested digital objects not supported
• The ability to add/list notes with no content isn't supported