Standard and idiosyncratic schemata for text, annotation and user data, with a library of validation, (de-)serialization, a database interface and other utilities.
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Introduction
This module defines:
schema
shared standard schema for communicating and storing data (with a particular focus on sanskrit texts) of various types.
various idiosyncratic notations used by various modules which deviate from the proposed standards.
python classes (corresponding to the schema) and shared libraries for validating, (de-)serializing and storing sanskrit data of various types.
a common database interface for accessing various databases (so that a downstream app can switch to a different database with a single line change).
While this package was originally motivated by Sanskrit text annotation needs, it is more generally useful.
Similar libraries in various other programming languages are being built:
Scala (likely compatible with Java): db-interface .
Motivation
Various sanskrit modules need to communicate data amongst each other (for example through a REST API or database stores or even function calls). Examples of the data being communicated could be:
Gramatical details of a given word
Sentences in a given book chapter
Annotations on a given phrase
When it comes to serialization formats - two distinct approaches present themselves to us:
One possible route is to have each project defining and using its own idiosyncratic notation. But this entails an additional burdens:
Each communicating module having to convert the data from one idiosyncratic notation to another.
Good schema design or notation is non trivial. Even if no external module is using the data, it is a waste to have to reinvent the wheel.
A superior route is to have a common, standard format for encoding various data-types for storage/ communication.
To the extant possible, we should take latter approach to data storage and communication.
Where idiosyncratic notations are adapted for various reasons, it is still desirable to collect such definitions in a single module - to facilitate conversion to the standard format.
For users
Installation
Install this library (Replace pip2 with pip3 as needed)
Latest release: sudo pip3 install sanskrit_data -U
Development copy: sudo pip3 install git+https://github.com/vedavaapi/sanskrit_data@master -U
Local modifications: pip install -e .
Web.
Install libraries for the particular database you want to access through the sanskrit_data.db interface (as needed): pymongo, cloudant (for couchdb).
Usage
Please see the generated python sphinx docs in one of the following places:
under docs/build/html/index.html
Design considerations for data containers corresponding to the various submodules (such as books and annotations) are given below - or in the corresponding source files.
For contributors
Contact
Have a problem or question? Please head to github.
Packaging
~/.pypirc should have your pypi login credentials.
python3 setup.py bdist_wheel twine upload dist/* --skip-existing
Document generation
sphinx html docs can be generated with cd docs; make html
http://sanskrit-data.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sanskrit_data.html should automatically have good updated documentation - unless there are build errors.
To update UML diagrams, copy the outputs of the below to docs:
pyreverse -ASmy -k -o png sanskrit_data.schema -p sanskrit_data_schema
pyreverse -ASmy -k -o png sanskrit_data.db -p sanskrit_data_db
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