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| -rw-r--r-- | python/fatcat_tools/importers/dblp_release.py | 14 |
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diff --git a/python/fatcat_tools/importers/dblp_release.py b/python/fatcat_tools/importers/dblp_release.py index 9cebcdc2..5cbc95d0 100644 --- a/python/fatcat_tools/importers/dblp_release.py +++ b/python/fatcat_tools/importers/dblp_release.py @@ -5,6 +5,20 @@ Importer for DBLP release-level (article/paper/etc) XML metadata. Works similarly to PubMed XML importer: expects to have a large XML file iterated over quickly, with individual elements re-parsed into smaller objects and passed to `parse_record()`. + +There are two valuable pieces of relationship metadata in dblp: + +- container linkages, especially to conferences which do not have ISSNs, and + thus no existing fatcat containers +- author disambiguation, which is a work in progress but anecdotally higher + quality than MAG, Semantic Scholar, etc + +We are not going to do author (creator) ingest at this time. For containers, +import would be made much easier if we updated the database schema to include +dblp_prefix as a lookup key, but this is more difficult for containers than +with releases, so we are going to skip it for now. This leaves us with a +brittle/unreliable TSV lookup mechanism for prefix-to-container_id (as of +December 2020). """ import sys # noqa: F401 |