Enforce value for homepage in sources
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Each external source should be provided with some form of a (Web)link. If there is not an actual homepage existing, a link to a PDF, paper or any documentation (it could even be the isbn of a book) should be provided at least. It makes not so much sense to link to things that spawn out of thin air.
That is true. I would argue however, that there are sources that don't have any representation on the web. I did modify the documentation for https://github.com/luckinet/ontologics/blob/main/R/new_source.R, mentioning this in particular. The point I would like to make is that when using a new source merely as "attribute", it would require slightly different configuration (i.e., not necessarily a homepage).
What I've been thinking though, very similar to your line of thought that for the case where a new source is clearly another vocabulary/ontology of linked data, we need a URL that clearly works...
With adding the uri_prefix column to the sources table, and ignoring external sources that don't provide a value for uri_prefix, we can close this.