Taxonomy database (PhySH)

[nathanshammah]

APS, the American Physical Society, has a taxonomy tool called Physics Subject Headings (PhysSH) that asks all authors to use when submitting a manuscript for publication in a Phys. Rev. Lett./A/B/... journal.

See the example below of the window during a paper submission to APS:

Or this example, under the Physics Subject Headings section.

I was wondering if there is something the Metriq project can learn from. Importing directly PhySH could be an option, but possibly too restrictive (as it focuses on physics). However, one could check if categories that are expressive enough exist. Also, for some papers, e.g., those published in APS journals, PhySH could be extracted automatically. At https://physh.org/ there are some APIs.

Note that PhySH substitutes the old standard PACS, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_and_Astronomy_Classification_Scheme.

[WrathfulSpatula]

I'm looking at both this and the arXiv API, right now, (#429). I can tackle these after we finish updates to the user profile, to accommodate the "affiliation" field added last week.

Thinking aloud, the fewer external dependencies we have, the more self-standing Metriq remains, in general point of tautology. However, it's probably time to see what these physics-related REST APIs can do for us.