import

An approach for keeping content that is added as part of development synchronized with test and production environments is to use the Default Content module to export the content. It's built for the content to be exported to an installation profile's 'content' folder, and then the module, if enabled, automatically brings the content in when the site is installed.

Struggling with taxonomy import.

After stripping everything out, the conclusion is that taxonomy_save_term, by itself, without even the hooks to add extra data, is simply too slow, with a minimum of three database calls per term. (data, hierarchy, vocabulary)

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1048576 bytes) in /RCS/agaric/agaric-sites/scf/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 836

134,217,728

Increased to 256MB. It ran forever, then returned this:

The parser needs to follow the instructions here:
http://geneontology.org/GO.format.obo-1_2.shtml

To import a file of the kind available here:
http://geneontology.org/GO.downloads.ontology.shtml