isde_dataset

A Python package for translating dataset metadata between a number of different representations

Motivation

Dataset representations supported

Reads

• ISO19115/19139 XML

Serialises

• Schema.org Dataset class as JSON-Linked Data (JSON-LD)
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) as Terse Triple Language (TTL)

Requirements

• Tested on Python 3.7 and later versions
• Only core Python libraries are used in the main code

Installation

Development dependencies

• flake8 >= 4.0.1
• mypy >= 0.941
• pytest >= 7.1.1
• pytest-cov >= 3.0.0
• pytest-flake8 >= 1.1.1
• pytest-mypy > = 0.9.1
• tox >= 3.24.5

Testing

Test are run with pytest, and on can be automated with tox for specific Python versions. The tox tests can be mimicked in a local environment with:

pytest --cov=isde_dataset --cov-report html --flake8

Linting

Code linting is checked with flake8 and type checking with mypy.

Building documentation

Documentation is built to HTML with pdoc, e.g.:

pdoc src/isde_dataset -o docs