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 - Remove `cg.subject.wle` and `cg.identifier.wletheme` from CGSpace input form after confirming with IWMI colleagues that they no longer need them (WLE closed in 2021)
 - [iso-codes 4.13.0 was released](https://salsa.debian.org/iso-codes-team/iso-codes/-/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#4130-2023-02-28), which incorporates my changes to the common names for Iran, Laos, and Syria
+- I finally got through with porting the input form from DSpace 6 to DSpace 7
 
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+- I can't put my finger on it, but the input form has to be formatted very particularly, for example if your rows have more than two fields in them with out a sufficient Bootstrap grid style, or if you use a `twobox`, etc, the entire form step appears blank
+
+## 2023-03-02
+
+- I did some experiments with the new [Pandas 2.0.0rc0 Apache Arrow support](https://datapythonista.me/blog/pandas-20-and-the-arrow-revolution-part-i)
+  - There is a change to the way nulls are handled and it causes my tests for `pd.isna(field)` to fail
+  - I think we need consider blanks as null, but I'm not sure
+- I made some adjustments to the Discovery sidebar facets on DSpace 6 while I was looking at the DSpace 7 configuration
+  - I downgraded CIFOR subject, Humidtropics subject, Drylands subject, ICARDA subject, and Language from DiscoverySearchFilterFacet to DiscoverySearchFilter in `discovery.xml` since we are no longer using them in sidebar facets
+
+## 2023-03-03
+
+- Atmire merged one of my old pull requests into COUNTER-Robots:
+  - [COUNTER_Robots_list.json: Add new bots](https://github.com/atmire/COUNTER-Robots/pull/54)
+- I will update the local ILRI overrides in our DSpace spider agents file
+
+## 2023-03-04
+
+- Submit a [pull request on pycountry to use iso-codes 4.13.0](https://github.com/flyingcircusio/pycountry/pull/156)
+
+## 2023-03-05
+
+- Start a harvest on AReS
+
+## 2023-03-06
+
+- Export CGSpace to do Initiative collection mappings
+  - There were thirty-three that needed updating
+- Send Abenet and Sam a list of twenty-one CAS publications that had been marked as "multiple documents" that we uploaded as metadata-only items
+  - Goshu will download the PDFs for each and upload them to the items on CGSpace manually
+- I spent some time trying to get csv-metadata-quality working with the new Arrow backend for Pandas 2.0.0rc0
+  - It seems there is a problem recognizing empty strings as na with `pd.isna()`
+  - If I do `pd.isna(field) or field == ""` then it works as expected, but that feels hacky
+  - I'm going to test again on the next release...
+  - Note that I had been setting both of these global options:
+
+```
+pd.options.mode.dtype_backend = 'pyarrow'
+pd.options.mode.nullable_dtypes = True
+```
+
+- Then reading the CSV like this:
+
+```
+df = pd.read_csv(args.input_file, engine='pyarrow', dtype='string[pyarrow]'
+```
+
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