Update notes for 2019-04-10

content/posts/2019-04.md

@@ -553,5 +553,20 @@ $ psql -c 'select * from pg_stat_activity' | grep -o -E '(dspaceWeb|dspaceApi|ds
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 - Ironically I do still see some 2 to 10% of CPU steal in `iostat 1 10`
+- Leroy from CIAT contacted me to say he knows the team who is making all those requests to CGSpace
+  - I told them how to use the REST API to get the CIAT Datasets collection and enumerate its items
+- In other news, Linode staff identified a noisy neighbor sharing our host and migrated it elsewhere last night
+
+## 2019-04-10
+
+- Abenet pointed out a possibility of validating funders against the [CrossRef API](https://support.crossref.org/hc/en-us/articles/215788143-Funder-data-via-the-API)
+- Note that if you use HTTPS and specify a contact address in the API request you have less likelihood of being blocked
+
+```
+$ http 'https://api.crossref.org/funders?query=mercator&mailto=me@cgiar.org'
+```
+
+- Otherwise, they provide the funder data in [CSV and RDF format](https://www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/)
+- I did a quick test with the recent IITA records against reconcile-csv in OpenRefine and it matched a few, but the ones that didn't match will need a human to go and do some manual checking and informed decision making...
 
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@@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ $ ./delete-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/2019-02-21-delete-1-region.csv -db dspace
   "@type": "BlogPosting",
   "headline": "April, 2019",
   "url": "https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2019-04/",
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+  "dateModified": "2019-04-09T09:33:52&#43;03:00",
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     "name": "Alan Orth"
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 <ul>
 <li>Ironically I do still see some 2 to 10% of CPU steal in <code>iostat 1 10</code></li>
+<li>Leroy from CIAT contacted me to say he knows the team who is making all those requests to CGSpace
+
+<ul>
+<li>I told them how to use the REST API to get the CIAT Datasets collection and enumerate its items</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>In other news, Linode staff identified a noisy neighbor sharing our host and migrated it elsewhere last night</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2 id="2019-04-10">2019-04-10</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Abenet pointed out a possibility of validating funders against the <a href="https://support.crossref.org/hc/en-us/articles/215788143-Funder-data-via-the-API">CrossRef API</a></li>
+<li>Note that if you use HTTPS and specify a contact address in the API request you have less likelihood of being blocked</li>
+</ul>
+
+<pre><code>$ http 'https://api.crossref.org/funders?query=mercator&amp;mailto=me@cgiar.org'
+</code></pre>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Otherwise, they provide the funder data in <a href="https://www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/">CSV and RDF format</a></li>
+<li>I did a quick test with the recent IITA records against reconcile-csv in OpenRefine and it matched a few, but the ones that didn&rsquo;t match will need a human to go and do some manual checking and informed decision making&hellip;</li>
 </ul>
 
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