Loading Pubmed info into the Paper model

[abarysh]

Currently, our Paper model only stores the PubMed ID of a paper, the first and the last authors, and the publication year. Everything else (other authors, title, citation, abstract) is retrieved from PubMed via API. Since this info never changes and given that we encountered a few places where having fast access to these data is necessary, I would like to discuss the possibility of adding this info to the Paper model directly and avoid using the API.

Practically, we would need to add the following fields to Paper:

• all_authors (text)
• title (text)
• citation (char)
• abstract (text)

[vsoch]

If it's available, the full date of publication would be useful (beyond the year). I'm not sure we need to keep an abstract on demand, we could continue to get it via the API. But are you thinking of nixing using the API all together? For the authors, since we have to parse them separately, we might do something like:

Last1, First1; Last2, First2, ... , LastN, FirstN;

And then we would be able to expose a paper.authors function that would return a list split by ;.

And then maybe we want journal for the publisher?