Alexander Duryee

querying VIAF for name authorities

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The following VIAF search endpoint ought to return the correct name entity, based on the author name and work title: `http://www.viaf.org/viaf/search?query=local.names+all+"Cuthbert, Margaret"+and+local.title+all+"Adventure in radio"&maximumRecords=5&httpAccept=application/json` Adjust parameters to taste. I tried...

improve documentation

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TODO: - more comprehensive commenting - document principles of date parsing - howto for adding new parsers

Given the number of hoops that timetwister jumps through to format dates for Chronic, I wonder if it's possible to instead directly use `DateTime#strptime` to transform strings into DateTime objects.

For single dates (e.g. `July 4, 1776`), there are currently a number of forms that they can take (e.g. `1776 July 4`, `1776 4 July`, etc.). Notably, `match_replace` parser 80...

Timetwister already has the ability to support certainties and ranges; as such, there's no reason why it shouldn't support EDTF. `19uu` should be treated similarly to `19--` `~` should be...

add foreign language support

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The library currently has no foreign language support, although it should be simple to implement (dict of mappings e.g. `{"janvier" => "January"}`

The `@audience` attribute in EAD is used to mark elements for/not for publication. Generally, `@audience="internal"` marks elements that should _not_ be published, and any other value (or no `@audience` at...

When running `arclight:index_url` with a valid `URL`, it throws the following error: ``` rake arclight:index_url URL=https:/path/to/valid/ead.xml rake aborted! Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - https:/path/to/valid/ead.xml (Errno::ENOENT) ```...

Dates are currently assigned to `_ssm` fields, which store them as plain strings. This results in gaps in search, where e.g. `2012` does not match a record with a date...

While testing EAD exports on sandbox, I started getting invalid namespace errors. I dug into it a bit, and found that `xmlns:xsi="https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"` is not a valid namespace - the declaration...