Pumping up flags (CORE, Citeable, Refereed)

[kaplun]

@michamos and I have identified that the flags: CORE, Citeable, Refereed are particular because they can be set by algorithms (that could evolve in time), but that could be overridden by a curator.

Since it's not currently possible to identify who set the flag, we have the issue of:

• identifying when a curator should override the flag for a group of record because it's not sure whether the flag has been set by an algorithm or a curator
• ditto for algorithms
• we don't know when an algorithm should reprocess the flag.

We would propos that this flag are augmented with a source information. E.g.:

"citeable": {
    "flag": true,
    "source": "CURATOR",
}

or

"core": {
    "flag": false,
    "source": "core-guesser",
}

Alternatively we could have a list of objects:

"citeable": [
   {
       "flag": true,
       "source": "CURATOR",
   },
   {
       "flag": false,
       "source": "citeable-guesser",
   }
]

Possibly sorted chronologically (e.g. latest first), where the final value is computed at runtime (e.g. CURATOR has precedence over an algorithm.

The cons of this approach is that is adding quite some complexity.

Better ideas? Are we solving the wrong problem?

@annetteholtkamp, @jacquerie, @StellaCh ?