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diff --git a/extra/dblp/README.md b/extra/dblp/README.md index d74f8bf9..f2fd02da 100644 --- a/extra/dblp/README.md +++ b/extra/dblp/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ This file describes hacks used to import dblp container metadata. +As of December 2020 this is part of the dblp release metadata import pipeline: +we must have conference and other non-ISSN containers created before running +the release import. dblp does not publish container-level metadata in a +structured format (eg, in their dumps), so scraping the HTML is unfortunately +necessary. + ## Quick Bootstrap Commands @@ -12,9 +18,12 @@ and dump release entities in JSON; this takes some time: Next extract the unique set of dblp identifier prefixes, which will be used as container identifiers: - cat /data/dblp/dblp_releases.json | jq ._dblp_prefix | grep -v ^none | sort -u > /data/dblp/prefix_list.txt + cat /data/dblp/dblp_releases.json | jq ._dblp_prefix -r | grep -v ^null | sort -u > /data/dblp/prefix_list.txt -Then fetch HTML documents from dblp.org for each prefix: +Then fetch HTML documents from dblp.org for each prefix. Note that currently +only single-level containers will download successfully, and only journals, +conf, and series sections. Books, Tech Reports, etc may be nice to include in +the future. mkdir -p journals mkdir -p conf @@ -27,7 +36,7 @@ Then fetch HTML documents from dblp.org for each prefix: Using the python script in this directory, extract metadata from these HTML documents: - fd .html | ./dblp_html_extract.py | pv -l > dblp_container_meta.json + fd html conf/ journals/ series/ | ./dblp_html_extract.py | pv -l > dblp_container_meta.json This can be imported into fatcat using the dblp-container importer: |