BAroQUe

BAroQUe: Bentley Audiovisual Quality control Utility

The Bentley Audiovisual Quality control Utility (BAroQUe) is a Python 3-based Command Line Interface (CLI) executable primarily intended for in-house use. It performs Quality Control (QC)--with microservices to validate directory and file naming structure, METS XML and WAV BEXT chunks--for audio digitized by vendors according to Bentley specifications.

This README includes general installation and usage documentation for BAroQUe. For technical documentation intended to assist developers, check the project's development documentation.

Contributors

• Dallas Pillen (djpillen)
• Hyeeyoung Kim (hyeeyoungkim)
• Liz Gadelha (lizgad)
• Max Eckard (eckardm)
• Maryse Lundering-Timpano (MaryseLT)
• Matt Adair (umadair)
• Melissa Hernández-Durán (mhdezd)
• Tim Baron (tlbaron)

Requirements

• Requires Python 3.0 or higher.
• cx_Freeze: To build an executable file
• dateparser: To compare dates in metadata exports and METS XML
• lxml: To parse METS XML files
• openpyxl: To read xlsx files
• tqdm: To make loops show a smart progress meter

Installation

• Clone this repository to your computer
• cd baroque
• pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

usage: baroque.py [-h] [-d DESTINATION] [-s] [-m] [-w] [--all] SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE

Positional Arguments:

Argument	Description
SOURCE_DIR	Path to source directory
EXPORT_FILE	Path to metadata export file

Actions:

Argument	Description
-s, --structure	Validate directory and file structure For more information, see Structure Validation documentation.
-m, --mets	Validate METS For more information, see METS Validation documentation.
-w, --wav	Validate WAV BEXT chunks For more information, see BEXT Validation documentation.
--all	Run all validations

Optional Arguments:

Argument	Description
-h, --help	show the help message and exit
-d DESTINATION, --destination DESTINATION	Path to destination for reports

BAroQUe's functionality is implemented in baroque.py, which is a command line script that takes as its input a minimum of 3 arguments:

SOURCE_DIR
The path to a source_directory that corresponds to either a shipment, a collection, or an item directory

EXPORT_FILE
The path to a metadata export (CSV or XLSX) corresponding to the shipment to validate against. BAroQUe expects this metadata export to contain at least the following column headers: "DigFile Calc", CollectionTitle", "ItemTitle", and "ItemDate".

[-d, --destination]
An optional argument (-d, --destination) with a path to a destination directory where reports and logs will be stored. In the absence of this argument, BAroQUe checks a .baroque configuration file in the current user's home directory. Failing that, BAroQUe defaults to a reports directory in the BAroQUe installation's base directory.

Actions
The optional validation action(s) to be run against the source directory (otherwise BAroQUe will just characterize the source directory as a shipment, collection or item)

Command Examples

Validate directory and file structure

$ baroque.py SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE -s/--structure

or, with the optional destination argument...

$ baroque.py SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE -d/--destination /path/to/reports -s/--structure

Validate METS XML

$ baroque.py SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE -m/--mets

or, with the optional destination argument...

$ baroque.py SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE -d/--destination /path/to/reports -m/--mets

Validate WAV BEXT chunks

$ baroque.py SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE -w/--wav

or, with the optional destination argument...

$ baroque.py SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE -d/--destination /path/to/reports -w/--wav

Validate directory and file structure, METS XML and WAV BEXT chunks

This steps runs all validation checks described above.

$ baroque.py SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE --all

or, with the optional destination argument...

$ baroque.py SOURCE_DIR EXPORT_FILE -d/--destination /path/to/reports --all