metadataTools

some tools for processing metadata

extract_metadata.py

1. Extracts the contents of <mods:title>, <mods:subject>, and <mods:genre>, from an OAI harvest XML file, and writes them to a new output file.

2. <mods:subject>, and <mods:genre> are filtered to output only the unique values.

3. Set input/output file and run python extract_metadata.py

• with a nod to Mark Jordan's metadata_reporter