Referencing Sources of Molecular Spectroscopic Data in the Era of Data Science: Application to the HITRAN and AMBDAS Databases

Abstract

<jats:p>The application described has been designed to create bibliographic entries in large databases with diverse sources automatically, which reduces both the frequency of mistakes and the workload for the administrators. This new system uniquely identifies each reference from its digital object identifier (DOI) and retrieves the corresponding bibliographic information from any of several online services, including the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data Systems (ADS) and CrossRef APIs. Once parsed into a relational database, the software is able to produce bibliographies in any of several formats, including HTML and BibTeX, for use on websites or printed articles. The application is provided free-of-charge for general use by any scientific database. The power of this application is demonstrated when used to populate reference data for the HITRAN and AMBDAS databases as test cases. HITRAN contains data that is provided by researchers and collaborators throughout the spectroscopic community. These contributors are accredited for their contributions through the bibliography produced alongside the data returned by an online search in HITRAN. Prior to the work presented here, HITRAN and AMBDAS created these bibliographies manually, which is a tedious, time-consuming and error-prone process. The complete code for the new referencing system can be found on the HITRANonline GitHub website.</jats:p>

The 2020 release of the ExoMol database: Molecular line lists for exoplanet and other hot atmospheres

“…Our aim is to make referencing to the original data as easy and convenient as possible, including automatic generation of the list of references to cite in the appropriate format such as BibTex, Endnote etc. Such services have been developed and offered by HITRAN [284] .…”

A Decade with VAMDC: Results and Ambitions

“…HITRAN provides references to the original sources for the majority of the parameters for every transition. The details of how such referencing was incorporated is described by Skinner et al [85] in this Special Issue. It is worth pointing out that, with the exception of some diatomic molecules (including hydrogen halides) for which the line lists can be used at temperatures up to 5000 K or higher, the majority of the HITRAN line lists are intended to be used at the lower temperatures encountered in the terrestrial atmosphere.…”

“…The integration of AMBDAS within the VAMDC infrastructure is planned for release in 2020 as part of an upgrade to the database software, which includes a recently developed DOI-centred reference management library [85] and an updated classification of plasma processes [129]. In addition, a new search interface, VSS2 queries and XSAMS output (see Section 3.1.1) are supported.…”

BASECOL2020 New Technical Design

“…In addition, the BASECOL policies ask the users to cite the authors of the collisional datasets. Some improvement of that section could be made possible in the future by deploying a software similar to the one developed for the HITRAN and the AMBDAS databases [18] that allows for retrieving the information using a DOI.…”

“…The "Tools" section gives access to information on the SPECTCOL tool [4] and on a scientific package for the water-H 2 collisions [19][20][21][22][23][24]. The search on energy tables has been removed following recommendations from the French PCMI community 18 . Figure 3.…”