Issues

• Decide whether to swap our J_Entrez parser for upstream's, starting by making its skips visible

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#74 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Oct 21, 2026 · Needed soon

• Write schema.json beside every export, so Parquet and NDJSON describe themselves like the database does

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#72 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Oct 20, 2026 · Needed soon

• Store the citation graph (ReferenceList), once its size is measured and a consumer wants it

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#71 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Oct 20, 2026 · Needed later

• archive_build.py selects a build's step logs by mtime, which misfires if builds are archived out of order

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#70 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Oct 20, 2026

• Cut a full corpus load from a day to a few hours

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#68 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Oct 20, 2026 · pubmed2db v1.3

• Trim trailing whitespace from article_title at export

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#60 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Sep 28, 2026

• validate: efetch serves issue, abstract and DOI values the archival XML never had

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#59 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Sep 28, 2026

• Upstream's type_mesh_ids sorts publication types and drops their names

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#56 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Sep 25, 2026 · Upstream

• Check whether serfile deltas predating the baseline should be skipped

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#52 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Sep 4, 2026 · Not urgent

• Decide whether the serfile baseline year should roll over automatically

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#51 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Sep 4, 2026 · Needed later

• Expose serfile's cancelled ISSNs as resolver aliases

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#50 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Sep 4, 2026 · Needed soon

• Investigate process_catalog()'s duplicate records and download size before reporting upstream

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#49 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Sep 4, 2026 · Upstream

• Export per-version publication status (retracted/updated/latest) for Babel

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#45 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Aug 21, 2026
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• Confirm DocumentMetadataAPI consumers accept a pub_month that carries a year

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#43 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Aug 20, 2026
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• Re-baseline the JSON export's peak RSS and wall time after the COPY rewrite

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#42 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Aug 20, 2026
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• Add a 06-parquet.sbatch once the Parquet export has been measured

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#41 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Aug 20, 2026 · Not urgent

• Read ELocationID DOIs as a fallback when ArticleIdList carries none

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#35 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Aug 20, 2026
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• Report pubmed-downloader's ReferenceList-scope bugs upstream (or decide to keep the workarounds local)

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#34 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Aug 20, 2026 · Upstream

• Settle the CURIE prefix for PMCIDs in the JSON export's identifiers

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#33 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Aug 20, 2026 · Upstream

• Decide whether validate's journal fields should be able to fail

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#31 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Aug 19, 2026

• Distinguish deleted from merged records in validate's deletion check

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#30 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Aug 19, 2026

• Run the Parquet export at corpus scale and record its cost

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#29 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Aug 18, 2026 · Not urgent

• Decide whether builds should fetch the ~37k Bookshelf records that PubMed's bulk files omit

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#27 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Aug 18, 2026

• Stream the XML with iterparse: parse_file holds the whole DOM (~1.2 GiB/file)

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#25 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Aug 18, 2026 · pubmed2db v1.3

• Consider a smoke test for documented paths (three README/CLAUDE.md claims had drifted)

  TranslatorSRI/pubmed2db#23 · Filter by author gaurav opened on Aug 17, 2026