etd

Creates BePress XML from ProQuest metadata

Prerequisites

• Saxon HE

This code assumes you have Saxon available for XSLT transformations. We are using the Saxon HE for .Net

Getting Started

Clone the repository and create a virtual environment.

> git clone https://github.com/isu-meta/etd
> cd etd
> python -m venv etd_env
> etd_env\Scripts\activate
> pip install -r requirements.txt

Update paths in workflow.py

Variable Name	Description
pdf_reader	Path to Adobe or similar reader
path	Path to a blank output directory
pq_path	Path to proquest .zip files

Run

From your anaconda environment.

> python workflow.py

Results will appear in the output directory mentioned above.

Other Institutions

Non-ISU institutions will need to change the fulltext-url path in ETD-ProQuestXML2bepressXML-2017.xsl.

<fulltext-url>
<xsl:variable name="pdfpath">
    <xsl:value-of select="DISS_content/DISS_binary"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="concat('https://behost.lib.iastate.edu/DR/uploads/', $pdfpath)"/>
</fulltext-url>

A new ListofMajors.csv will also need to be included.

Documentation

This documentation was written for an older version of etd. Some parts may no longer be applicable. https://mddocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/theses.html#etds