[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Python ArchivesSpace scripting library

Max Eckard eckardm at umich.edu
Mon Aug 7 11:24:37 EDT 2017


This is an idea we've toyed around with as well--I'm sure one or more of us
could contribute, too. Keep us posted!

Max

On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Jason Loeffler <j at minorscience.com> wrote:

> Don't want to add any overhead to this but at one point late last year I
> recall a proposal from Max Eckard, Esmé, Sally V., et al. for an Awesome
> <https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome>-style list to house these kinds
> of projects. Establishing such a list and collecting the prior art there
> might be a good way to help set both projects in motion.
>
> And +1, I can contribute.
>
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Majewski, Steven Dennis (sdm7g) <
> sdm7g at virginia.edu> wrote:
>
>> +1 :  I can contribute as well.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Steve Majewski / UVA Alderman Library
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <
>> archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of
>> Seth Shaw <seth.shaw at unlv.edu>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, August 3, 2017 11:38:20 AM
>> *To:* Archivesspace Users Group
>> *Subject:* Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Python ArchivesSpace
>> scripting library
>>
>> I'm interested in this too. I was doing some python scripting just
>> this week (https://github.com/seth-shaw-unlv/small-stuff/blob/master/a
>> s-coll-mint/as_coll_mint.py#L85-L117),
>> if you want to throw that on the prior art pile.
>>
>> Also for the prior art pile: I know the folks at the Rubenstein (Duke)
>> have also done a good deal of ArchivesSpace python scripting (see
>> http://blogs.library.duke.edu/bitstreams/2016/09/21/archives
>> space-api-fun/
>> and https://github.com/duke-libraries/archivesspace-duke-scripts
>> /tree/master/python).
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Mayo, Dave <dave_mayo at harvard.edu> wrote:
>> > One thing I think might be useful, especially in planning stages, is
>> > collecting the “prior art” in one place to look at – because there are
>> a lot
>> > of scripts people have built around the API, and they probably capture
>> at
>> > least a fair bit of “what people want to do most with the API.”
>> >
>> > So, whenever the github is set up, we should do this.
>> >
>> > - Dave
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > From: <archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> on
>> behalf of
>> > "rsdoiel at caltech.edu" <rsdoiel at library.caltech.edu>
>> > Reply-To: "rsdoiel at caltech.edu" <rsdoiel at caltech.edu>, Archivesspace
>> Users
>> > Group <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>
>> > Date: Thursday, August 3, 2017 at 9:21 AM
>> > To: Archivesspace Users Group
>> > <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>
>> > Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Python ArchivesSpace scripting
>> > library
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hello Patrick,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I have written some tools in go and mocked up functionaity in Python a
>> few
>> > years ago I'd be interested in the project.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Robert Doiel
>> >
>> > Caltech Library
>> >
>> > rsdoiel at caltech.edu
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Aug 3, 2017 6:10 AM, "Galligan, Patrick" <PGalligan at rockarch.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > For a while now the RAC has been bouncing around the idea of developing
>> an
>> > AS Python library that would hold a lot of the functions we find
>> ourselves
>> > working with a lot when scripting against the AS API. I know Greg
>> Wiedeman
>> > at U Albany has done some work to this end, but I wanted to send a
>> blast out
>> > to the list to see who else might be interested. We’d love to make this
>> as
>> > collaborative and exhaustive as possible so that we can cover the most
>> > bases.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I’m thinking of setting up a Github project that we can collaboratively
>> work
>> > in. Anyone have better ideas?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Let me know.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Patrick Galligan
>> >
>> > Rockefeller Archive Center
>> >
>> >
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