Technical Design

Ideas

• Store information in a sqlite DB (possibly in memory) to make querying for an object/metadata easier

• Allow for lazy parsing so we don't have to load the whole file into memory and keep it there

• Original discussion here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hJ9KrmnpRU-aQBD07dC7n21njN1bwYq-MxK0RUpHhV0/edit# (Access restricted)

Discussion

For attributes directly corresponding to XML elements, use python style naming (rights_basis) or XML style (rightsBasis) ?

• Python
• • consistent with python styling
• • consistent with anything that doesn’t directly map to elements
• • inconsistent with the actual XML, have to do mental mapping between the two
• XML
• • easy to see relation between attribute and originating tag
• • mismatches with rest of python code

Access things via dict (foo[‘value’]) or by attribute (foo.value) ?

• dict-style
• • use .get(value, None) to get default values if it may not exist
• • easier to give access to (probably using dict internally anyway, just use wrapper for __get__)
• attribute
• • less typing
• • probably harder to populate (maybe use @property?)