Oriole Data Migration

Scripts to transfer data from the Xerces MySQL database to Oriole.

Prerequisites

pipenv is used to manage python packages. Install it first and them install the packages

pipenv install

Xlint is used to check the XML format.

Extract data from Xerces MySQL

Xerces data are stored in MySQL in XML format. To extract the data, run the following:

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mysql --user=xerxes --password -h mysql.mse.jhu.edu -e "SELECT data from xerxes.xerxes_databases;" > data.txt

Make it an XML and clean up

cat data.txt | tail -n +2 | sed 's/^<\?xml.*\?>\\n//' | sed 's/\&\#xD;//g' | sed 's/\\n//g' | sed 's/<!--[^>]*-->//g' | sed '1s/^/<?xml version="1.0"?><databases>/' | sed '$s/$/<\/databases>/'  > data.xml

Check the format

xmllint --noout data.xml

Load data into Oriole

Create .env file and configure the environment variables. Follow the example in .env.example.

Simply run the following:

pipenv run python load.py

Files

• load.py: the main script to load data into Oriole
• publishers.py: the script to extract publisher data from Xerces data. See jira:OR-137
• settings.py: Loading environment variables
• .env: environment variables used by the scripts
• data: Data directory
  • data.txt, data.xml: data extracted from Xerces.
  • fast_facets.txt: list of FAST facets
  • fast_terms.txt: list of FAST terms
  • oriole_map_db_to_terms.txt: mapping of FAST term to databases.