Curation workflow

The curation workflow is summarised in the following schema:

Workflow control

Error types

The error types or causes for which the material-properties record is incorrect.

They answer to the question: "What was the cause?"

Name Description
From table The entities Material -> Tc -> Pressure is identified in a table. At the moment table extraction is not performed.
Extraction The material, temperature, pressure is not extracted (no box) or extracted incorrectly.
Linking The material is incorrectly linked to the Tc given that the entities are correctly recognised
Tc classification The temperature is not correctly classified as "superconductors critical temperature" (e.g. Curie temperature, Magnetic temperature…)
Composition resolution The exact composition cannot be resolved (e.g. the stochiometric values cannot be resolved)
Value resolution The extracted formula contains variables that cannot be resolved, even after having read the paper. This includes when data is from tables. #125

Status flags

The workflows flags are properties within the database that are used to mark different status of the data:

  • type indicate the type of operation that was performed
  • status indicate the status of the current record

and their value is used as follows:

Name Values Visible to users Description
type manual true The performed operation was manual
type automatic true The performed operation was automatic (anomaly detection, loading script)
status valid true The record is valid (if type=automatic the record might still be wrong)
status invalid true The record is probably invalid, incorrect
status obsolete false The record is obsolete, a new record supersedes it and the new record will point to the old (if we assume that a correction will create new record)
status new true the record has been added by the automatic process
status curated true the record has been edited (a curated record will also contain the error type)
status validated true the record was validated by a curator as correct (this could have been done from a new or a curated record)
status removed false the record was removed
status empty false the originating document does not have any extracted information

However, the flags should be used in pair and the state change is illustrate as follows: