sources/
Raw source media that is not in ~/dev/a local paper archive/. The a local paper archive is the canonical store for primary papers (PDFs, indexed by DOI). Don’t duplicate here.
What goes here
| Subfolder | Contents | Examples |
|---|---|---|
images/ | Extracted figures, diagrams (with provenance) | A figure copied from a paper for inline reference; a self-drawn pathway diagram |
data/ | Supplementary datasets, dose-response CSVs | Raw data from a paper’s supplementary tables; CSV of compiled dose-effect points |
videos/ | Recorded lectures, conference talks, interviews | A YouTube lecture by Aubrey de Grey; a SENS conference talk |
pdfs/ | PDFs only when not retrievable via a local paper archive | Old papers without DOI; institutional preprints; theses |
Provenance is mandatory
Every file in sources/ must have a sibling .meta.md file recording origin:
---
type: source
filename: figure-3-yousefzadeh-2018.png
origin-doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2018.09.015
origin-figure: "Fig. 3"
origin-url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2018.09.015
license: "publisher (CC-BY)"
extracted-by: claude
extracted-on: 2026-05-04
---
Brief description of what this is and why it was extracted.For videos, also record:
- Original platform + URL
- Speaker(s)
- Date recorded
- Whether full or excerpt
What does NOT go here
- PDFs of papers that the a local paper archive already has → reference by DOI instead
- Anything that can be regenerated from canonical databases (UniProt entries, KEGG diagrams via API, etc.)
- Anything you don’t have re-distribution rights for that would be redistributed by Obsidian sync