pyPreservica 1.2

[James Carr]

I have released a new version of pyPreservica to coincide with the Preservica 6.4 release.

https://pypreservica.readthedocs.io/

It contains a new set of APIs for managing metadata schema's and templates, system users, security tags and retention policies.

The documentation has been improved and their are more examples of different ways to automate ingesting content.

 Entity API Features

• Fetch and Update Entity Objects (Folders, Assets, Content Objects)
• Add, Delete and Update External Identifiers
• Add, Delete and Update Descriptive Metadata Fragments
• Change Security tags on Folders and Assets
• Create new Folder Entities
• Move Assets and Folders within the repository
• Deleting Assets and Folders
• Fetch Folders and Assets belonging to parent Folders
• Retrieve Representations, Generations & Bitstreams from Assets
• Download digital files and thumbnails
• Fetch lists of changed entities over the last n days
• Request information on completed integrity checks
• Add or remove asset and folder icons
• Replace existing content objects within an Asset
• Export OPEX Package
• Fetch audit trail events on Entities and across the repository
• Create Relationships between Assets

Content API Features

• Fetch a list of indexed Solr Fields
• Search based on a single query term
• Filtered searches on indexed fields

Upload API Features

• Create single Content Object Packages with multiple Representations
• Create multiple Content Object Packages with multiple Representations
• Upload packages to Preservica
• Spreadsheet Metadata
• Ingest Web Video
• Ingest Twitter Feeds

Admin API Features

• Schema Management (XML Templates, XSD Schema’s & XSLT Transforms) (New)
• User Management (create and remove user accounts) (New)
• Security Tags (add and remove security tags) (New)

Retention Management API Features

• Create new retention policies (New)
• Delete retention policies (New)
• Update retention policies (New)
• Assign retention policies to entities (New)

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James