diff --git a/README.textile b/README.textile
index 27b347f..e0d2309 100644
--- a/README.textile
+++ b/README.textile
@@ -30,29 +30,23 @@ Set up a location for the EntityFacts input data:
 
 @mkdir entityfacts ; cd entityfacts@
 
-Get the EntityFacts data from the DNB – for the @20200713@ release here, find current at "https://data.dnb.de/opendata/":https://data.dnb.de/opendata/:
+Get the latest EntityFacts data from the DNB (see "https://data.dnb.de/opendata/":https://data.dnb.de/opendata/):
 
-@wget https://data.dnb.de/opendata/authorities_entityfacts_20200713.jsonld.gz@
+@wget https://data.dnb.de/opendata/authorities_entityfacts.jsonld.gz@
 
 Unpack the data:
 
-@gunzip < authorities_entityfacts_20200713.jsonld.gz > authorities_entityfacts_20200713.jsonld@
+@gunzip < authorities_entityfacts.jsonld.gz > authorities_entityfacts.jsonld@
 
 Go back to the root directory:
 
 @cd ..@
 
-Set up the data location in 'conf/application.conf' (data.entityfacts):
+Index the data, passing the index name:
 
-@data { ... entityfacts: "entityfacts/authorities_entityfacts_20200713.jsonld" ...@
+@sbt -Dindex.entityfacts.index=entityfacts_20210120 "runMain apps.Index entityfacts"@
 
-Set up the name for the index to create in 'conf/application.conf' (index.entityfacts.index):
-
-@index { ... entityfacts { index: "entityfacts_20200713" ...@
-
-Index the data:
-
-@sbt "runMain apps.Index entityfacts"@
+For configuration details and defaults, see 'conf/application.conf'.
 
 h3. GND Baseline
 
@@ -88,7 +82,7 @@ Convert the data to JSON-LD lines, the index data format:
 
 @sbt "runMain apps.ConvertBaseline"@
 
-To be able to log out from the server while the conversion is running, we actually use:
+To be able to log out from the server while the conversion is running, we actually use (see full usage details in baseline.sh):
 
 @setsid nohup sbt "runMain apps.ConvertBaseline" &@
 
diff --git a/app/apps/Convert.java b/app/apps/Convert.java
index 8b0d611..e5050fd 100644
--- a/app/apps/Convert.java
+++ b/app/apps/Convert.java
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 import static models.AuthorityResource.ELEMENTSET;
 
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
-import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
@@ -53,7 +52,6 @@
 import com.github.jsonldjava.utils.JsonUtils;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
 import com.typesafe.config.Config;
-import com.typesafe.config.ConfigFactory;
 import com.typesafe.config.ConfigObject;
 
 import controllers.HomeController;
@@ -64,13 +62,13 @@
 
 public class Convert {
 
-	static final Config CONFIG = ConfigFactory.parseFile(new File("conf/application.conf"));
+	static final Config CONFIG = HomeController.CONFIG;
 
 	static final TransportClient CLIENT = new PreBuiltTransportClient(
 			Settings.builder().put("cluster.name", HomeController.config("index.boot.cluster")).build());
 
 	static {
-		ConfigFactory.parseFile(new File("conf/application.conf")).getStringList("index.boot.hosts").forEach((host) -> {
+		CONFIG.getStringList("index.boot.hosts").forEach((host) -> {
 			try {
 				CLIENT.addTransportAddress(new InetSocketTransportAddress(InetAddress.getByName(host), 9300));
 			} catch (UnknownHostException e) {
diff --git a/baseline.sh b/baseline.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c38b7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/baseline.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -uo pipefail # See http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/
+# Call on server like: setsid nohup bash baseline.sh > baseline.log 2>&1 &
+
+# details and defaults are configured in conf/application.conf
+
+export TODAY=$(date +'%Y%m%d')
+
+# get entityfacts baseline file
+cd data/entityfacts/
+wget https://data.dnb.de/opendata/authorities_entityfacts.jsonld.gz
+gunzip < authorities_entityfacts.jsonld.gz > authorities_entityfacts.jsonld
+cd ../..
+
+# index entityfacts JSON
+sbt \
+  -Dindex.entityfacts.index=entityfacts_$TODAY \
+  "runMain apps.Index entityfacts" \
+  > IndexEntityfacts_$TODAY.log 2>&1
+
+# clean up entityfacts baseline file
+mv data/entityfacts/authorities_entityfacts.jsonld.gz data/entityfacts/authorities_entityfacts_$TODAY.jsonld.gz
+
+# get gnd_lds baseline files
+cd data/gnd_lds
+wget https://data.dnb.de/opendata/authorities-{geografikum,koerperschaft,kongress,person,sachbegriff,werk}_lds.rdf.gz
+cd ../..
+mkdir data/index/gnd_lds_$TODAY
+
+# convert RDF_XML to JSON lines
+sbt \
+  -Dindex.entityfacts.index=entityfacts_$TODAY \
+  -Dindex.prod.name=gnd_$TODAY \
+  -Ddata.jsonlines=data/index/gnd_lds_$TODAY \
+  -Dindex.delete.baseline=GND-deprecated-baseline_$TODAY.txt \
+  "runMain apps.ConvertBaseline" \
+  > ConvertBaseline_$TODAY.log 2>&1
+
+# clean up gnd_lds baseline files
+mkdir data/gnd_lds/gnd_lds_$TODAY
+mv data/gnd_lds/authorities-*_lds.rdf.gz data/gnd_lds/gnd_lds_$TODAY
+
+# index JSON lines
+sbt \
+  -Dindex.prod.name=gnd_$TODAY \
+  -Ddata.jsonlines=data/index/gnd_lds_$TODAY \
+  -Dindex.delete.baseline=GND-deprecated-baseline_$TODAY.txt \
+  "runMain apps.Index baseline" \
+  > IndexBaseline_$TODAY.log 2>&1
+
+# index updates since last baseline (currently manual process)
+# export LAST_BASE=20201013 # get date from https://data.dnb.de/opendata/?
+# mkdir data/index/gnd_since_$LAST_BASE
+# cp data/backup/GND-updates_2021*.jsonl data/index/gnd_since_$LAST_BASE # etc.; alt: OAI-PMH
+# setsid nohup sbt \
+#  -Dindex.prod.name=gnd_$TODAY \
+#  -Ddata.jsonlines=data/index/gnd_since_$LAST_BASE \
+#  -Dindex.delete.baseline=GND-deprecated-updates.txt \
+#  "runMain apps.Index baseline" \
+#  > IndexBaseline_since_$LAST_BASE.log 2>&1 &
+
+# a more automatable alternative might be to OAI-PMH updates
+# export LAST_BASE=2020-10-13 # get date from https://data.dnb.de/opendata/?
+# sbt "runMain apps.ConvertUpdates $LAST_BASE"
+# sbt "runMain apps.Index updates"
+
+## finally, switch 'gnd' alias to 'gnd_$TODAY'
diff --git a/conf/application.conf b/conf/application.conf
index 0baa623..321d369 100644
--- a/conf/application.conf
+++ b/conf/application.conf
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ index {
 	settings: "conf/index-settings.json"
 	content: "application/json; charset=utf-8"
 	entityfacts {
-		index: "entityfacts-20190816-1600"
+		index: "entityfacts"
 		type: "entityfacts"
 	},
 	delete.baseline: "GND-deprecated-baseline.txt"