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 needs to be distinct from any already existing team_name.
• model_name needs to be distinct from any already existing model_name.
• model_abbr needs to 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.
• 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. -model_version needs to be a string -modeling_NPI needs to be a string -compliance_NPI needs to be a string -contact_tracing needs to be a string -testing needs to be a string -vaccine_efficacy_delay needs to be a string
• vaccine_hesitancy needs to be a string
• vaccine_immunity_duration needs to be a string
• nature_immunity_duration needs to be a string
• importations needs to be a string
• vaccine_efficacy_transmission needs to be a string
• confidence_interval_method needs to be a string
• calibration needs to be a string
• spatial_structure needs to be a string
• case_fatality_rate,infection_fatality_rate, asymptomatics needs to be a number between 0 and 1, or Not applicable
• age_groups needs to be expressed as an array of groups, using the following example format (the bin sizes and number of bins are configurable) needs to be a string [0-5, 5-17, 18+], or Not applicable