MAINT: allow the apply_list_of_updates function to be used elsewhere

Summary

This extracts the old push_identifiables_to_caosdb function from the crawler and allows other programms to use the logic.

Test Environment

Unit and integration tests

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assigned to @henrik

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• 6441d4aa - 1 commit from branch dev
• fbaab1ce - Merge branch 'dev' into f-apply-updates

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• 1f4d0517 - FIX: remove unneeded self

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• d4cae093 - DOC: Add docstring

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• d4cae093...c8549ff0 - 2 commits from branch dev
• a83d8b3a - Merge branch 'dev' into f-apply-updates

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mentioned in commit 7f3ccfb2