Ability to set metadata and file manipulators in configuration file about mik

[mjordan]

+1 on this. I could come up with some use cases if that would help.

[MarcusBarnes]

Thank you. Use cases would help. Additional suggestions for needed or desired filemanipulators and metadatamanipulators would be best added as additional issues with the ToDo label.

[mjordan]

Manipulators should be reusable across source-to-target combinations. Some use cases:

filemanipulators: 1) create a TN datastream from an image, PDF or video OBJ datastream, 2) create a PDF from an image OBJ or other datastream, 3) create a TIFF from a JPEG2000 OBJ datastream, 4) validate an XML datastream.

metadatamanipulators: 1) take any date value and convert it to yyyy-mm-dd, 2) take any personal name value and try to invert it to last name, first name format, 3) take any value and look it up against a Linked Data source, for example, a name and look it up in VIAF and return the corresponding URI if there is only one.

If we create reusable, generalized manipulators, we'll need to figure out how to pass configuration values in. For example, for the filemanipulator that creates a TN from PDF datastream, what program + parameters would you run? For the metadatamanipulator that looks up a value in an external Linked Data source, what query URL do you hit?

[MarcusBarnes]

There is some partial work on this issue for metadatamanipulators in 7029a10 and 4f659d7.

Note the addition of the manipulate() wrapper method of the FilterModsTopic metadatamanipulator class.

[mjordan]

I think we can close this Nice work @MarcusBarnes.

[MarcusBarnes]

Thank you @mjordan.