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Make Study.pub_ids an array of strings #740

Closed bussec closed 4 months ago

bussec commented 5 months ago

Currently Study.pub_ids is a single string and it is unclear how multiple references would be separated (probably by comma, but is this documented). It seems appropriate to change this into an array of strings.

bcorrie commented 5 months ago

Agree, and I also think we should make this an array of CURIEs - or CURIE like objects so we can interpret them computationally (e.g. DOI:10.1016/j.retram.2024.103439, PMID:29944754)

This is already how we curate our data, and on the iReceptor Gateway if it sees a CURIE like object in pub_ids it interprets the object like a CURIE with a set of internally defined CURIE prefix mappings. So it translates both DOI: and PMID: to the relevant web sites so one can directly look up the paper.

I would also suggest that the docs suggest that if there is a primary publication for the study, it should be first in the array. Adding a bit of semantics to the Array to get predictable behaviour is useful.