After offline discussions with Ingmar, I am going to edit the logic behind the Planned to open up in the future flag so that this flag is greyed out when Open Source licensed is set to true. Otherwise the flag is rather meaningless when a permissive license like the MIT license has already been checked.
Some further questions and suggestions for improvment:
- should add: Modeled energy carriers (Other): Supercritical CO2 (for CCS technologies)
- under Transfer (Heat): does heat transmission (that is, long-distance transport) make any sense?
- the Network coverage fields AC load flow and DC load flow are ambiguous: the basic AC load flow model is very confusingly termed DC load flow (see end of message for details) — so the associated help message should make this crystal clear
- the various Property:* pages should explain the meaning of the field at the very top of the page
- the Property:Math modeltype should also accept the following values: accounting, hybrid, and game theory. And possibly energy-economy or economic equilibrium or general equilibrium (for top-down models, of which there are none so far), input/output, econometric, and integrated assessment (for completeness, more than anything else, at this point).
- the Property:License need only record the abbreviated form of the license where it is well known, for example: GPLv2 and not GNU General Public License version 2.0. The Property:License page can then contain a list of expansions.
- the Property:Model source public could be renamed Property:Distribution and contain the values: git repository, svn repository (not that I know of any projects using subversion), anonymous download, registration, and by invitation (meaning that applicants will be screened and approved).
- a new Property:First release date to record the year or full date of first public release (this would provide interesting historical information)
- a new Property:Final release date to record the abandonment of a project
- a new Property:Status which accepts: planned, active, unmaintained, and discontinued (this would allow users to see which projects are alive or not).
In addition:
- perhaps the license information should be split into Property:Code license and Property:Data license to distinguish between the codebase (say GPLv3) and datasets (say CC BY 4.0).
The AC/DC load flow naming issue:
Andersson (2008) on page 59 explains that the active power flow equation for fixed-frequency AC power is analogous to Ohms law applied to a resistor carrying DC current. Hence this form of AC power analysis is often referred to as DC load flow.
Andersson, Göran (2008). Modelling and analysis of electric power systems: power flow analysis fault analysis power systems dynamics and stability (PDF). Zürich, Switzerland: ETH. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
