Metadata Checks

The metadata checks are implemented to conform to the specifications specified in this file. In addition to them, the following checks are run:

• Metadata file must have proper yaml format.
• team_name gives the name of the team and is not validated.
• model_name gives the name of the model and is not validated.
• model_abbr must be distinct from any already existing model_abbr.
• model_contributors must include at least one email address and written in the format specified here.
• team_model_designation should be one of primary, secondary, proposed, or other. There should be only one primary model for every team_abbr, where (in Python) team_abbr = model_abbr.split('-')[0], e.g., 'COVIDhub-baseline' -> 'COVIDhub'.
• license should be one of the licenses specified in the license column of this CSV.
• website_url field must be specified. This should be a valid URL.
• methods is under 200 characters.
• The name of the directory under which all the forecasts and metadata files are added must be the model_abbr specified in the metadata file.