While processing some of the PLOS awards, I investigated an issue I saw occurring with storage of the OpenAlex funding information. Some "grants" returned from OpenAlex for the given paper, have the funder information (NIH, NSF, Sloan) but do not have an award id.
Right now, we require an award ID to link a funder with a document but I think it's okay to allow the award id to be nullable.
Thoughts @nniiicc?
The benefit of allowing nullable imo is that we can track more information for funders in general (even if we don't have the specific award we can still investigate who is funding stuff). The con is that it's just a bit messier imo.
While processing some of the PLOS awards, I investigated an issue I saw occurring with storage of the OpenAlex funding information. Some "grants" returned from OpenAlex for the given paper, have the funder information (NIH, NSF, Sloan) but do not have an award id.
Right now, we require an award ID to link a funder with a document but I think it's okay to allow the award id to be nullable.
Thoughts @nniiicc?
The benefit of allowing nullable imo is that we can track more information for funders in general (even if we don't have the specific award we can still investigate who is funding stuff). The con is that it's just a bit messier imo.