Write an archiver for EIA Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey

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Motivation and context:

Briefly describe the dataset. What is it, and why do we want to archive it regularly?
Links:

• Main dataset page
• Most recent data page

Notes:

• this dataset is structured very similarly to EIA MECS in that it has a page for each year of data.
• The data gets released every 5 ish years.
• The older data is only published as PDFs. Stretch goal here would be to grab both the excel and pdf data but the excel data is way higher priority.

Requirements for archiving

To be archived on Zenodo, a dataset must be:

• published under an open license that permits reuse and redistribution
• less than 50Gb in size (when zipped)
• relevant to energy modelling and research

Checklist for archive creation

Based on the README documentation on creating a new archive:

Tasks

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1. Define the dataset's metadata
2. Implement archiver interface
3. Test archiver locally
4. Test uploading to Zenodo
5. Manually review archive before publication
6. Finalize archive (only core Catalyst developers can complete this step)
7. Automate archiving

Links to published archives:

Include a link to the published sandbox archive for review.