Re: [Treebase-devel] Citation metadata for 2009 additions

[William P. <wil...@ya...>]

On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> Wouldn't that complicate the data import in some way? I'm OK if it doesn't, but if it does I think we may need to defer until after the release.

If the citation-update-scirpt can take the Endnote output and update 284 records, I don't see why it can't take a bigger Endnote output and update 2,350 records (which is total number of citations now in TreeBASE1). I don't recall that this is a slow process, and it should have been designed for multi- and incremental updates. 

If Mark didn't design it for multiple & incremental updating (e.g. if each time you run it it creates more and more duplicate author records), than yes, we should only do the 284-record update.  Perhaps Vladimir can examine the code and confirm that it is designed for multiple runs of the same script on the same set of records. 

bp