Metadata analysis for possible GUI editing interface

[arcadiafalcone]

Background

The Cocina descriptive metadata model is large and complex. The CSV upload/download feature supports users who want to leverage that complexity, but some users find it cumbersome for making minor edits or creating simple descriptions. This ticket is for analysis to help determine the frequency of use for descriptive properties associated with current SDR objects, to assist in selecting properties to include in a GUI for descriptive metadata editing.

Definitions

Path = The thing being counted. The headers that would be generated for a descriptive metadata CSV download, without the numbers in the headers showing iteration.
By object = Not counting repeats of the same path within a single object. Like a boolean of whether the path is present in the object or not, regardless of how many times it appears in the object.
Resource type = Value of description.form..value where corresponding type is "resource type".

Actions

1. Frequency across objects

This analysis should determine the frequency of occurrence for paths in the descriptive metadata by object.

2. Frequency within resource types

This analysis should group objects by resource type (putting an object in multiple groups if multiple resource types are present), and then perform the same analysis as above for each group.

[ndushay]

starting to address this with DSA descriptive_shapes by Ed, and with sul-dlss-labs/cocina-shapes, also by Ed.

I'm now working on getting counts by object, rather than number of occurrences in total.