Shelby Bice (Research Plan)

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Overview

Overall goals:

  • Create better database that includes all the patent data to which the McNair Center has access.
  • More importantly, create documentation of process so it can improved upon/replicated in the future.

General Outline - updated 2/21/2017

  • Familiarize myself with SQL, Perl, and database design
  • Familiarize myself with existing scripts and schema for existing database
  • Design a better representation for database
  • Fix scripts if necessary
  • Start moving data into new database by querying existing databases (using SQL)
  • Use scripts to query new data
  • Test database
  • Remove extraneous information from database (copies, patents that we're not interested in, etc.)

Documentation I need to include:

  • Schema of new database (with justification of design), would like to include a visual representation
  • SQL commands that were used to fill database with explanation of what they do
  • Clear instructions on where to find scripts in bulk drive and an explanation of what each script does

Project Pages: Shelby Bice (Redesigning Patent Database)

Log

2/16/2017 - Talked over project with Ed, began reading existing wiki pages related to patent data and databases

2/21/2017 - Brushed up on SQL, Entity - Relationship model of designing databases

  • In the documentation, I want to briefly explain what the entity-relationship model is before including

the diagram so that readers have a little bit of background

  • Found a tool for creating a visual representation called ERDPlus.com - create a standalone instead of an account, can download

Learning commands from Patent Data - SQL Steps

  • copy command is PostgreSQL that copies a SQL table to a text file
    • DELIMITER set what will separate columns in text file
    • HEADER specifies that there will be a header in the text file with the names of the columns
  • Definitely need to include more detail about what these do in the documentation
  • insert into command inserts a new entry into the table

2/23/2017 - Read great database design article, dug through some more wiki articles, started reviewing Perl

  • What client do we use to interact with the current patent database?
  • Will need to determine all the fields that need to be included in the database before finishing the design and ER diagram, will need Ed's input

3/2/2017 - Started compiling a list of what fields to include and how they would be related.