The idea is to "have a self-contained script that could in future just be ripped and replaced with whatever new functionality supersedes" it, and the goal of the script would be to extract runrecord metadata from a datalad dataset and output it as a catalog-ready entry, without having to depend on metalad or jq bindings used by datalad-catalog's translation component.
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metalad_coreextractor was previously ported intodatalad-catalogas a standalone script, specifically in theabcdjbranch..See:
The idea is to "have a self-contained script that could in future just be ripped and replaced with whatever new functionality supersedes" it, and the goal of the script would be to extract runrecord metadata from a datalad dataset and output it as a catalog-ready entry, without having to depend on metalad or jq bindings used by datalad-catalog's translation component.