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

SubfolderContentsExamples
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 CSVsRaw data from a paper’s supplementary tables; CSV of compiled dose-effect points
videos/Recorded lectures, conference talks, interviewsA YouTube lecture by Aubrey de Grey; a SENS conference talk
pdfs/PDFs only when not retrievable via a local paper archiveOld 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