Contributing sources
Add or strengthen the authoritative sources and citations behind entities and relationships.
Sources are the backbone of the platform. On the source track you add or strengthen the authoritative sources and citations behind entities and relationships. A Source Reviewer verifies every source is authoritative, licensed, and correctly attributed. Browse the current registry at /registry and /data/licensing.
Contribution types on this track
Add an authoritative source that supports an existing entity or relationship.
Improves: Source coverage
Attach a formal citation (paper, dataset, catalogue) to an entity or relationship.
Improves: Citation coverage, Source coverage
Security & abuse model
Controls a future review system applies at each stage. Designed, not implemented — there is no rate limiter or spam filter today.
submission
Structural checks and (future) human triage keep low-effort or automated noise out of the review queue.
Submission rate limits (per contributor and per institution) protect the queue. Designed, not enforced today.
Observatories, universities, and agencies are verified before receiving the Institutional Partner role.
triage
Overlapping edits to the same object are surfaced before either is accepted.
Open proposals targeting the same object with the same change are merged or superseded, not double-applied.
review
Sources must come from the authoritative registry or a proposed source a Source Reviewer verifies.
Every image and dataset contribution is checked for a compatible, declared license before acceptance.
No contribution is ever auto-applied; an editor and, where required, a scientific reviewer must approve it.
Sourced factual claims in the science domain must pass scientific review by a domain expert.
acceptance
Ready to draft one? Copy a proposal template.