Define theory metadata format #5
Description
Seems to me the discussion clearly belongs here.
It seems we all agree that it would be good to have a theory metadata file containing:
- Citations for the theory calculation/code [string/required].
- Description of the setup of external codes [text/optional].
- COMPOUND specification [mapping/optional].
- Default cfactors for NLO and NNLO [mapping/optional].
There are open questions on whether to expand this to include some/all of the database settings in apfelcomb. The motivations are consolidated settings and better version control. The downside is that it requires a lot of not particularly interesting work for relatively little return.
One option could be having a small number of yaml settings write the sqlite database only to interface with the existing code. The script to do that would be trivial in python.