What is an acceptable data source for covidregionaldata?

[Bisaloo]

Hi 👋,

I would love to see some discussion in the README and some guidance in the contributing guide of what you consider an acceptable / trustworthy data source.

My initial inclination would be to only include 'official' sources (government or supranational health organizations such as ECDC, WHO, etc.). This would disqualify unofficial community initiatives and personal GitHub repos but probably also more established sources such as NYT and JHU.

Anyways, you seem to have opted for another criterion to decide whether a data source is acceptable or not. As a potential user, I would find it reassuring to have some discussion in the README or in the documentation of what you made choose a given source and why I can trust it. As a potential contributor, I would find it useful to be able to determine if my data source is suitable to be included in covidregionaldata.

Related issue: #375

[seabbs]

This is a good idea for sure.

Personally not sure official sources only would be viable (especially for places that have a history of cooking the data a bit). I think that the moment the criteria are "expert" judgement but very much agree that isn't ideal and we should decide on something better.

Since the refactor we haven't exactly had a rush of new datasets being contributed (sadly) so maybe this is part of the reason for that.