RERO Mets/Alto importer
This importer extends the generic Mets/Alto importer, and it was developed to handle OCR newspaper data provided by RERO in Mets/Alto format (the rest of the data is in Olive format).
RERO Custom classes
This module contains the definition of the RERO importer classes.
The classes define newspaper Issues and Pages objects which convert OCR data in the RERO version of the Mets/Alto format to a unified canoncial format. Theses classes are subclasses of generic Mets/Alto importer classes.
- class text_preparation.importers.rero.classes.ReroNewspaperIssue(issue_dir: IssueDir)
Newspaper Issue in RERO (Mets/Alto) format.
All functions defined in this child class are specific to parsing RERO Mets/Alto format.
- Parameters:
issue_dir (IssueDir) – Identifying information about the issue.
- id
Canonical Issue ID (e.g.
GDL-1900-01-02-a
).- Type:
str
- edition
Lower case letter ordering issues of the same day.
- Type:
str
- journal
Newspaper unique identifier or name.
- Type:
str
- path
Path to directory containing the issue’s OCR data.
- Type:
str
- date
Publication date of issue.
- Type:
datetime.date
- issue_data
Issue data according to canonical format.
- Type:
dict[str, Any]
- pages
list of
NewspaperPage
instances from this issue.- Type:
list
- rights
Access rights applicable to this issue.
- Type:
str
- image_properties
metadata allowing to convert region OCR/OLR coordinates to iiif format compliant ones.
- Type:
dict[str, Any]
- ark_id
Issue ARK identifier, for the issue’s pages’ iiif links.
- Type:
int
- class text_preparation.importers.rero.classes.ReroNewspaperPage(_id: str, number: int, filename: str, basedir: str)
Newspaper page in RERO (Mets/Alto) format.
- Parameters:
_id (str) – Canonical page ID.
number (int) – Page number.
filename (str) – Name of the Alto XML page file.
basedir (str) – Base directory where Alto files are located.
- id
Canonical Page ID (e.g.
GDL-1900-01-02-a-p0004
).- Type:
str
- number
Page number.
- Type:
int
- page_data
Page data according to canonical format.
- Type:
dict[str, Any]
- issue
Issue this page is from.
- Type:
- filename
Name of the Alto XML page file.
- Type:
str
- basedir
Base directory where Alto files are located.
- Type:
str
- encoding
Encoding of XML file. Defaults to ‘utf-8’.
- Type:
str, optional
- page_width
The page width used for the coordinate system.
- Type:
float
- add_issue(issue: MetsAltoNewspaperIssue) None
Add to a page object its parent, i.e. the newspaper issue.
This allows each page to preserve contextual information coming from the newspaper issue.
- Parameters:
issue (NewspaperIssue) – Newspaper issue containing this page.
- text_preparation.importers.rero.classes.convert_coordinates(coords: list[float], resolution: dict[str, float], page_width: float) list[int]
Convert the coordinates using true and coordinate system resolutions.
The coordinate system resolution is not necessarily the same as the true resolution of the image. A conversion, or rescaling can thus be necessary. Essentially computes fact = coordinate_width / true_width, and converts using x/fact.
- Parameters:
coords (list[float]) – List of coordinates to convert
resolution (dict[str, float]) – True resolution of the images (keys x_resolution and y_resolution of the dict).
page_width (float) – The page width used for the coordinate system.
- Returns:
The coordinates rescaled to match the true image resolution.
- Return type:
list[int]
RERO Detect functions
This module contains helper functions to find RERO OCR data to be imported.
- text_preparation.importers.rero.detect.Rero2IssueDir
A light-weight data structure to represent a newspaper issue.
This named tuple contains basic metadata about a newspaper issue. They can then be used to locate the relevant data in the filesystem or to create canonical identifiers for the issue and its pages.
Note
In case of newspaper published multiple times per day, a lowercase letter is used to indicate the edition number: ‘a’ for the first, ‘b’ for the second, etc.
- Parameters:
journal (str) – Newspaper ID.
date (datetime.date) – Publication date or issue.
edition (str) – Edition of the newspaper issue (‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, etc.).
path (str) – Path to the directory containing the issue’s OCR data.
rights (str) – Access rights on the data (open, closed, etc.).
>>> from datetime import date >>> i = Rero2IssueDir('BLB', date(1845,12,28), 'a', './BLB/data/BLB/18451228_01', 'open')
- text_preparation.importers.rero.detect.detect_issues(base_dir: str, access_rights: str, data_dir: str = 'data') list[IssueDirectory]
Detect newspaper issues to import within the filesystem.
This function expects the directory structure that RERO used to organize the dump of Mets/Alto OCR data.
TODO: add info on the file structure.
- Parameters:
base_dir (str) – Path to the base directory of newspaper data.
access_rights (str) – Path to
access_rights.json
file.data_dir (str, optional) – Directory where data is stored (usually data/). Defaults to ‘data’.
- Returns:
list of Rero2IssueDir instances, to be imported.
- Return type:
list[Rero2IssueDir]
- text_preparation.importers.rero.detect.dir2issue(path: str, access_rights: dict) IssueDirectory
Create a Rero2IssueDir from a directory (RERO format).
- Parameters:
path (str) – Path of issue.
access_rights (dict) – dictionary for access rights.
- Returns:
New Rero2IssueDir object matching the path and rights.
- Return type:
Rero2IssueDir
- text_preparation.importers.rero.detect.select_issues(base_dir: str, config: dict, access_rights: str) list[IssueDirectory] | None
Detect selectively newspaper issues to import.
The behavior is very similar to
detect_issues()
with the only difference thatconfig
specifies some rules to filter the data to import. See this section for further details on how to configure filtering.- Parameters:
base_dir (str) – Path to the base directory of newspaper data.
config (dict) – Config dictionary for filtering.
access_rights (str) – Path to
access_rights.json
file.
- Returns:
Rero2IssueDir instances to be imported.
- Return type:
list[Rero2IssueDir] | None