Using the metsverifier

The metsverifier is meant to be run in batch mode and it has only a simple command-line interface. Its configuration is done through the config.xml file. In addition it needs to have the CreateTable file in its installation directory.

Simply unpack the zip archive into your directory of choice. No further installation steps are required.

The files in the archive are:

• metsverifier.exe - The main executable
• config.xml - The configuration file
• CreateTable.txt - The SQL scripts to create the database tables. This file should not be changed.

All configuration is done through config.xml. This file has the following format:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>
	<database>database</database>
	<batchName>BatchTest</batchName>
	<input>C:/Data/1904</input>
	<verifiers>
		<dataintegrity >
			<filecheck>1</filecheck>
			<checksum>1</checksum>
			<divs>1</divs>
			<unlinkedidentifier>1</unlinkedidentifier>	
		</dataintegrity>
		<semanticchecks>	
				<identifiermix>1</identifiermix>
				<datefolderissue>1</datefolderissue>
				<invalidsupplement>1</invalidsupplement>
				<noissuedefined>1</noissuedefined>
		</semanticchecks>
		<blocks>
			<altoblockperpage>1</altoblockperpage>
			<blockstructure>1</blockstructure>
			<coveragepercentperalto>1</coveragepercentperalto>
			<multipleblockuse>1</multipleblockuse>			
		</blocks>
		<dates>1</dates>
	</verifiers>
</config>

• The database tag tells the program the name of the SQLite database file that it should write the output to.
• The batchName tag defines the name of the batch. Each test is done on a batch (usually a collection of the same data, e.g. year 1904 of a certain newspaper). When you run the same test again on the same batch, the data from the old run is preserved in the database and you can distinguish between them using the timestamp of the test run.
• input gives the location of the collection of METS, ALTO and image files on the hard disk, external disk or network share. The directory separator has to be the forward slash "/" like on Unix systems.
• The verifiers are a list of the verifications that the program makes. They are turned on with a "1" and turned off with a "0".

To run the program, it's best to open a command window (Start > Run > "cmd") and redirect the standard output of the program to a file, so that you have a log of what happened, in case something goes wrong. For example:

C:\>cd metsverifier
C:\metsverifier>metsverifier.exe > verifierlog20091104.log