Osprey Worker

Osprey is a system that checks the images produced by vendors in mass digitization projects by the Collections Digitization program of the Digitization Program Office, OCIO, Smithsonian.

https://dpo.si.edu/

This repo contains the command line program osprey_worker that runs the checks on the files from digitization projects. The program communicates with the Dashboard via an API.

Related repos:

• https://github.com/Smithsonian/Osprey - Osprey Dashboard
• https://github.com/Smithsonian/Osprey_Worker/

Requirements

The program requires a modern version of Linux and Python 3.7 or newer. It has been used with Ubuntu 23 and RHEL 8. A server running Osprey is also required to write the data to.

To install the Python requirements, use pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

This includes the modules:

• xmltodict
• pandas
• Pillow
• requests

In addition, it requires these programs to be already installed in the system:

• JHOVE
• Imagemagick
• exiftool

Running

Rename the file settings.py.template to settings.py and update the values there.

License

Available under the Apache License 2.0. Consult the LICENSE file for details.