Discography Compile

The project goal was to create a platform in order to provide automation for a royalties collection agency to create an author or performer dataset of all recordings produced to date.

The full dataset of public recordings is collected from the discogs.com repository of public maintained data. Business rules were then created in Python utilizing a Django web interface to view and control the data output. An excel spreadsheet is created and sent to the requesting user.

Prerequistites

• Obtain a copy of the discogs database from discogs.com which is delivered in XML formatted data. This must be then converted to an SQL format database on your local machine.

• The code is written in Python 3.4 and all required modules are contained in the ** discogs-req.txt ** file in this repository

• Add the modules in DiscogsApp and DiscogsPro to your Django directory

Built With

• Python 3.4
• Django 1.9.6
• discogs-client 2.2.1
• SQLite database

Future development

The discography data requires 3-5 minutes to collect from the database. This is sufficient for the business case but further development in RDDs will enable this time to be reduced.