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Contribute

Contributions are always welcome and do not necessarily require programming skills and can involve

  • Providing data to the database
  • Digitize data for the database
  • Develop metadata standards
  • Improve the website content
  • Develop data evaluation tools
  • …

Please leave us a message, contact directly albert.engstfeld@uni-ulm.de, or suggest changes in the issue boards of the respective repositories.

We would also be thrilled to hear about your ideas to extend these projects to other areas.

Contribute data

Data can be provided directly, for example, as csv file (source data) or involves digitizing data from a publication. In either case additional metadata and a PDF of the work should be provided (PDFs should not be uploaded in the repository). Contributions can made via a pull request in the electrochemistry dataa repository or send via mail to a albert.engstfeld@uni-ulm.de to determine further steps.

Source data

The data should be in a simple machine readable format, such as CSV, TSV, TXT, … which contains columns with data. Header lines with additional metadata are acceptable. The data must contain a potential (E) or voltage (U) axis and a current (I) or current density (j) axis. A time (t) axis is preferable. If not present, the scan rate (V/s), must be provided in the metadata to reconstruct the time axis.

Metadata is preferably submitted as YAML. Templates can be found either in the metadata-scheme repository (remove all parts that are not necessary) or browse through existing schemas from works that are already included in the database (check the entries in the subfolders).

Digitize data

To digitize data from published works, follow the instructions in the svgdigitizer documentation.