Newer ORCID dumps are XML, not JSON. But there is a conversion tool! https://github.com/ORCID/orcid-conversion-lib Commands: wget https://github.com/ORCID/orcid-conversion-lib/raw/master/target/orcid-conversion-lib-0.0.2-full.jar java -jar orcid-conversion-lib-0.0.2-full.jar OPTIONS java -jar orcid-conversion-lib-0.0.2-full.jar --tarball -i ORCID_2019_summaries.tar.gz -v v3_0rc1 -o ORCID_2019_summaries_json.tar.gz # [...] # Sat Dec 21 04:43:50 UTC 2019 done 7300000 # Sat Dec 21 04:44:08 UTC 2019 done 7310000 # Sat Dec 21 04:44:17 UTC 2019 finished errors 0 Importing in QA, ran in to some lines like: {"response-code":409,"developer-message":"409 Conflict: The ORCID record is locked and cannot be edited. ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0014-6598","user-message":"The ORCID record is locked.","error-code":9018,"more-info":"https://members.orcid.org/api/resources/troubleshooting"} {"response-code":409,"developer-message":"409 Conflict: The ORCID record is locked and cannot be edited. ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3750-5654","user-message":"The ORCID record is locked.","error-code":9018,"more-info":"https://members.orcid.org/api/resources/troubleshooting"} {"response-code":409,"developer-message":"409 Conflict: The ORCID record is locked and cannot be edited. ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1424-4826","user-message":"The ORCID record is locked.","error-code":9018,"more-info":"https://members.orcid.org/api/resources/troubleshooting"} {"response-code":409,"developer-message":"409 Conflict: The ORCID record is locked and cannot be edited. ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5340-9665","user-message":"The ORCID record is locked.","error-code":9018,"more-info":"https://members.orcid.org/api/resources/troubleshooting"} Needed to patch to filter those out. Then ran ok like: zcat /srv/fatcat/datasets/ORCID_2019_summaries.sample_10k.json.gz | ./fatcat_import.py orcid - Counter({'total': 10000, 'exists': 5323, 'insert': 4493, 'skip': 184, 'skip-no-person': 160, 'update': 0}) New dump is about 7.3 million rows, so expecting about 3.2 million new entities, 250k skips. Doing bulk run like: time zcat /srv/fatcat/datasets/ORCID_2019_summaries.json.gz | parallel -j8 --round-robin --pipe ./fatcat_import.py orcid - Prod timing: Counter({'total': 910643, 'exists': 476812, 'insert': 416583, 'skip': 17248, 'update': 0}) real 47m27.658s user 245m44.272s sys 14m50.836s