OpenGeoMetadata Harvester

This project contains a tool to harvest dataset metadata from the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) and transform it into the OpenGeoMetadata (OGM) Aardvark schema.

Setup

Make sure you have Ruby installed on your system.

Usage

To run the harvester:

ruby harvester.rb

The script will:

1. Check state.json for the last run date.
2. Fetch datasets from HDX that have been modified since that date.
3. Save the original metadata to metadata-hdx/.
4. Transform and save the metadata to metadata-aardvark/.
5. Update state.json with the current timestamp.

Converting metadata to Aardvark

convert.rb transforms one or more HDX metadata files from metadata-hdx/ into the OGM Aardvark schema and writes the results to metadata-aardvark/.

Pass the input files as arguments:

ruby convert.rb metadata-hdx/some-id.json metadata-hdx/another-id.json

Or convert all files at once using a shell glob:

ruby convert.rb metadata-hdx/*.json

Output files are written to metadata-aardvark/ with the same filename as the corresponding input file.

Testing

To run the test suite:

ruby harvester_spec.rb