ia-kg 0.1.1

ia-kg — Internet Archive Book Downloader and Knowledge Graph Ingestion Pipeline

Author: Eric G. Suchanek, PhD Flux-Frontiers, Liberty TWP, OH

Overview

ia-kg downloads books from the Internet Archive as structured Markdown and ingests them into DocKG-backed knowledge graphs, ready for retrieval via KGRAG.

Books are organized by genre into a local corpus. Each volume is cleaned of OCR artifacts, segmented by chapter and section headings, and converted to well-structured Markdown — making it directly ingestible by dockg build. After ingestion, each book's knowledge graph is registered in the KGRAG registry and added to genre and global corpora for federated semantic retrieval.

ia-kg pairs naturally with doc-kg and KGRAG to form a complete pipeline from raw scanned text to queryable knowledge graph.

Features

• Internet Archive integration — search, fetch metadata, and download DjVu text layers by identifier
• OCR cleaning — normalizes Unicode ligatures, smart quotes, hyphenated line-breaks, running headers, page numbers, and table-of-contents blocks
• Heading-aware Markdown conversion — detects CHAPTER / PART / SECTION / ALL-CAPS / Q&A headings and maps them to ## / ### / #### nodes
• Catalog-driven batch download — tab-separated catalog files with identifier and optional title override; genre inferred from filename
• Dynamic genre discovery — no hardcoded genre lists; scans corpus/ at runtime
• DocKG ingestion — builds per-book .dockg/ indices and registers each in the KGRAG registry
• Corpus and genre management — adds each book to a genre corpus (ia-<genre>) and a global ia-all corpus
• Survey command — tabular status showing MD / reference / KG presence per book per genre
• Dry-run support — all download and ingest commands accept --dry-run

Quick Start

# Search Internet Archive for texts
iakg download search "audels electric library"

# Download all books in a catalog
iakg download catalog scripts/catalogs/audel-electric.txt

# Show corpus status
iakg download survey

# Ingest into DocKG / KGRAG
iakg ingest --genre audel-electric

Installation

Requirements: Python ≥ 3.12, < 3.14

# pip (runtime only)
pip install ia-kg

# pip (with dev tools)
pip install 'ia-kg[dev]'

# pip (with PyCodeKG for codebase analysis)
pip install 'ia-kg[kgdeps]'

# Poetry
poetry add ia-kg

Note: kg-rag is not yet on PyPI. Install it from GitHub before using the ingest command:

pip install git+https://github.com/Flux-Frontiers/KGRAG.git

Usage

Download

# Search for texts on Internet Archive
iakg download search "audels electric library" -n 10

# Download a single item by identifier
iakg download book audels-electric-library-vol-1 --genre audel-electric

# Download from a catalog file (genre inferred from filename)
iakg download catalog scripts/catalogs/audel-electric.txt

# Force re-download even if already present
iakg download catalog scripts/catalogs/audel-electric.txt --force

# Dry run — print actions without writing files
iakg download catalog scripts/catalogs/audel-electric.txt --dry-run

# Survey corpus status (MD / reference / KG)
iakg download survey
iakg download survey --genre audel-electric

Ingest

iakg ingest --list-genres                         # list genres found in corpus/
iakg ingest                                       # ingest all genres
iakg ingest --genre audel-electric                # ingest one genre
iakg ingest --genre audel-electric --force-build  # rebuild even if .dockg exists
iakg ingest --push                                # git commit + push after each genre
iakg ingest --dry-run                             # print actions without executing

Catalog format

Catalog files are tab-separated, one item per line, with optional title override:

# Comments are ignored
audels-electric-library-vol-1	Audels Electric Library Vol. 1
audels-electric-library-vol-2

Place catalogs in scripts/catalogs/<genre>.txt — the genre is inferred from the filename stem.

Corpus Layout

corpus/
  <genre>/                        # e.g. audel-electric
    <Title>/                      # e.g. Audels Electric Library Vol. 1
      <slug>.md                   # structured Markdown (headings, Q&A, body)
      reference.md                # Internet Archive metadata sidecar
      .dockg/                     # DocKG knowledge graph index (after ingest)
        graph.sqlite
        lancedb/

Each book directory is a self-contained DocKG repository. Run dockg build inside any book directory to rebuild its index independently.

Adding a New Genre

1. Create a catalog file at scripts/catalogs/<genre>.txt
2. Add identifiers (verify with iakg download search)
3. Download: iakg download catalog scripts/catalogs/<genre>.txt
4. Ingest: iakg ingest --genre <genre>

No code changes are needed — genre discovery is fully dynamic.

License

Elastic License 2.0 — free for non-commercial and internal use; commercial redistribution requires a license from Flux-Frontiers.