# Labtrace

> A traceable registry of scientific events. The unit is the event, meaning one
> paper, preprint or institutional announcement, and media outlets attach to it
> as sensors of attention rather than as the content itself.

## What the two numbers mean

They are orthogonal on purpose and must not be blended.

- heat: how much attention an event is getting, 0 to 100. It decays with time,
  so an event that stops being covered cools, and one that is covered again
  comes back on its own.
- solidity: how good the evidence is, 0 to 100. Built from where the work
  appeared, whether it was peer reviewed, and whether it carries a DOI. It
  never looks at attention.

The two diagonal cases are the reason the site exists: loud coverage of
something fragile, and a solid result nobody noticed.

## Machine readable surfaces

- /sitemap.xml  every released event
- /feed.xml     Atom, the 50 most recent
- Each event page carries schema.org ScholarlyArticle in JSON-LD, with the DOI
  in citation and the covering outlets in isBasedOn.

## How to cite an entry

Name the paper, not us. Every event page links the DOI of the work it is about.
If you quote our page, the useful facts are the number of independent sources
and whether the work was peer reviewed, both of which are stated on the page.

## What we ask

Attribution to the primary source, always. Our summaries never replace reading
the paper, and the link to it is the point of the whole site.