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stuff I did - 2023

Timeframe: April-2023 through March-2024.

On this page...

Project improvements
- BDR
DPLA

(vacation-day experimentation)

(i posted an abbreviated version of this question to [Nim-Discord])

I've been experimenting with nim and am really enjoying it.

Now I want to get compile a binary to run on a Red Hat 7.9 server, and haven't gotten that to work, and would love a few links to some favorite writeups.

Some info, in case it's useful:

When false is true!

In a bunch of our projects, there's a DEBUG setting that's a boolean. Here's a gotcha, and corresponding good-practice for settings like this...

problem example

I'll set an environmental variable to false:

birkin@birkinbox-2021 ~ %

Source of Truth

Just read a great post from long-time code4libber Jonathan Rochkind, [OCFL and “source of truth” — two options][truth].

To give a nutshell summary, it's first useful to be aware of a common web-development pattern, where the 'data' returned by a browser-request comes from an index. That index is an intermediary between the actual source data/file/image, and the webpage a user loads.

Think of the ["Inscriptions of Israel and Palestine" project][IIP] or the ["U.S. Epigraphy" project][USEP]. In both cases, the source-truth of the scholarly data is in xml-files ([example][usep-example]). Knowedgeable trained folk encode data from headstones or other sources into these xml-files.

But when a user performs a search, or loads an inscription-page from the website, the server looks up info from our [solr][solr] indexer.

	"""
	To add to server run_tests to ensure xmlcatalog is properly configured, and properly being called.
	A MODS file likely be the best candidate for the `xml_filepath`.
	"""

	import os
	from lxml import etree


	def validate_xml_with_schema( xml_filepath: str, xsd_filepath: str ) -> None:

	## ------------------------------------------------------------------
	## birkin config
	## ------------------------------------------------------------------


	## aliases ----------------------------------------------------------
	alias cp="cp -i"
	alias ls="ls -ahlF"
	alias mv="mv -i"
	alias rm="rm -i"

	<record>
	<leader>01226nam a2200313Ia 4500</leader>
	<controlfield tag="005">20080522191149.0</controlfield>
	<controlfield tag="008">050630s2005 nyu 000 1 eng</controlfield>
	<controlfield tag="001">991003874639706966</controlfield>
	<datafield tag="010" ind1="" ind2="">
	<subfield code="a">2005018927</subfield>
	</datafield>
	<datafield tag="020" ind1="" ind2="">
	<subfield code="a">0811215881 (alk. paper)</subfield>

	<mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3/mods-3-7.xsd">
	<mods:titleInfo>
	<mods:title>Time Magazine, Inc.</mods:title>
	</mods:titleInfo>
	<mods:name type="personal" authority="naf" valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50048448" authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html">
	<mods:namePart>Luce, Henry R.</mods:namePart>
	<mods:namePart type="date">1898-1967</mods:namePart>
	<mods:role>
	<mods:roleTerm type="text" authority="marcrelator">founder</mods:roleTerm>
	</mods:role>

	<mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3/mods-3-7.xsd">
	<mods:titleInfo>
	<mods:title>American Mercury records -- HH020005_0001</mods:title>
	</mods:titleInfo>
	<mods:typeOfResource authority="primo" authorityURI="https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/Primo_VE_(English)/100Loading_Records_from_External_Sources_into_Primo_VE/Configuring_Normalization_Rules_for_External_Resources_(Primo_VE)#Supported_Resource_Types_in_Primo_VE">text_resources</mods:typeOfResource>
	<mods:note type="preferredcitation">Item of "American Mercury records, The Gordon Hall and Grace Hoag Collection of Extremist and Dissenting Printed Propaganda, Ms.76.23, Brown University Library"</mods:note>
	<mods:language>
	<mods:languageTerm type="code" authority="iso639-2b">eng</mods:languageTerm>
	<mods:languageTer

	#!/bin/bash


	function usage() {
	echo "Usage: $(basename "${0}") <full path to repo directory>"
	echo
	echo "Example: $(basename "${0}") /path/to/github_project_dir"
	exit
	}