Open kyleniemeyer opened 7 years ago
Related: https://github.com/pr-omethe-us/ChemKED-database/issues/4 and #55
We could add a URL field and whitelist URLs that tend to be stable, like NTRS. Of course, the concern with any URL type identifier is that it isn't persistent. Therefore, I think we'd want to reject data from sites that aren't on the whitelist (no lab group websites, etc.). You're right, though, that a lot of useful data might be only available at a URL. Also, the URL field should be exclusive of DOI (i.e., one or the other), and DOI should be mandatory where available.
This seems reasonable. There absolutely should be either DOI or URL, though with the latter I don't think we can do any automated validation.
We can test that the URL resolves, but should we hard-code specific domains that are acceptable? Or should that just be when reviewing submissions to the database?
Maybe let's start with just reviewing the URL on submission, and if it becomes a problem, hard-coding? Either way, we need to list the acceptable URLs somewhere public
OK, so for ChemKED/PyKED, we can add a URL field that is exclusive to DOI; it should retain authors
, year
, and detail
, but probably add title
. The other fields we currently include (pages
, volume
, journal
) are not relevant.
Before we add the title, let's make sure it won't be a bear to validate if it's provided with DOI. I don't think title is necessarily required even for URL references, although it might help a lot.
Although most recent data should be associated with an article with a DOI, some older datasets might instead come from government technical reports that may not have a DOI.
For example, the 1986 report from Burcat, Snyder, and Brabbs on benzene and toluene autoignition (https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19860015959) is not a journal article and does not have a DOI, but I think we should still support data given from reports like this.
(I'll note that some government agency technical reports do now have DOIs. For example, the Chemkin-III report is available via https://doi.org/10.2172/481621)