diff --git a/src/caoscrawler/converters/rocrate.py b/src/caoscrawler/converters/rocrate.py
index 36b331f2b0b06a407e0710533860b9e251eacd9d..7fd8378e2efbd48ed4ad77dd371a8a69d30c9fc2 100644
--- a/src/caoscrawler/converters/rocrate.py
+++ b/src/caoscrawler/converters/rocrate.py
@@ -32,16 +32,13 @@ import tempfile
 from typing import Optional
 from zipfile import ZipFile
 
-import linkahead as db
-
 import rocrate
 from rocrate.rocrate import ROCrate
 
-from ..stores import GeneralStore, RecordStore
+from ..stores import GeneralStore
 from ..structure_elements import (Directory, File, ROCrateEntity,
                                   StructureElement)
-from .converters import (Converter, ConverterValidationError,
-                         SimpleFileConverter, convert_basic_element)
+from .converters import Converter, SimpleFileConverter, convert_basic_element
 
 
 class ROCrateConverter(SimpleFileConverter):
diff --git a/src/caoscrawler/converters/xml_converter.py b/src/caoscrawler/converters/xml_converter.py
index a0ccb2fb8a5e10de15b18fd6fb387479779821b3..472e40518d8986f8264c0775140e0da516b8d7ec 100644
--- a/src/caoscrawler/converters/xml_converter.py
+++ b/src/caoscrawler/converters/xml_converter.py
@@ -25,10 +25,9 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 import re
 from typing import Optional
 
-import linkahead as db
 import lxml.etree
 
-from ..stores import GeneralStore, RecordStore
+from ..stores import GeneralStore
 from ..structure_elements import (File, StructureElement, XMLAttributeNode,
                                   XMLTagElement, XMLTextNode)
 from .converters import (Converter, ConverterValidationError,