docs/maintenance.md

Maintenance

How to keep the atlas accurate, consistent, and reviewable. The catalog is machine-checked, so most mistakes are caught by the validator before review.

Add a resource

1. Confirm it is in scope. Human or animal first-person capture, or ego-exo where the ego view is central. Robot-only / multi-view-robotic / driving / general long-video belong in Adjacent and Related Resources (scope: adjacent).
2. Find an official source. Project page, GitHub, Hugging Face, arXiv, OpenReview, university page, Zenodo, or an official challenge page. No blog reposts.
3. Add the YAML entry in data/resources.yml using resource_schema.md. Reuse task/modality tokens from taxonomy.md; add new tokens to data/taxonomy.yml.
4. Add the README row in the matching section, keeping the table format.
5. Set verified_at to today.
6. Run ruby scripts/build_artifacts.rb to refresh generated counts, dates, CSV/JSON, and figure labels.

Verify access status

• Apply status_policy.md. Prefer the conservative status.
• Do not infer licenses — if you cannot confirm one, write unknown (in the access matrix) and leave license off the YAML entry.
• Record what is missing in release_note for watch/partial entries.

Update the README

• New resource → add a table row.
• Changed status/scale → edit the row and the YAML in the same PR.
• New section/figure → add it to the Contents list.
• Badge counts, the Updated: date, the At-a-Glance row, and fallback site stats are generated by ruby scripts/build_artifacts.rb.

Update the YAML

• Keep name identical to the README when possible. If the display label must differ, document it in data/readme_aliases.yml.
• Names must be unique; check the duplicate guard if the validator complains.

Update badge and date

• The headline resources-<N> badge counts egocentric resources (scope is not adjacent).
• Bump meta.last_major_audit in data/resources.yml, then run ruby scripts/build_artifacts.rb. Do not edit the generated README date or badge manually.

Run local checks

ruby scripts/validate_catalog.rb
ruby scripts/build_artifacts.rb --check
ruby scripts/build_readme_i18n.rb --check
ruby scripts/build_hf_package.rb --check
ruby scripts/audit_catalog.rb

Fix every error. Warnings are non-fatal but should be resolved when practical: missing verification dates, missing release_note on watch/partial entries, missing license fields on open datasets, stale access checks, or taxonomy gaps.

Build the Hugging Face package

ruby scripts/build_hf_package.rb /private/tmp/awesome-egocentric-hf

The package copies publishable files only and prepends huggingface/dataset_card_header.txt to the temporary README. The GitHub README must stay metadata-free.

PR checklist

• Resource is in scope (egocentric, or correctly marked scope: adjacent).
• Official source linked; status is conservative.
• Scale numbers match the official source (not inflated).
• Both README.md and data/resources.yml updated; name matches.
• New task/modality tokens added to data/taxonomy.yml.
• meta.last_major_audit updated if needed, then generated artifacts rebuilt.
• ruby scripts/validate_catalog.rb and ruby scripts/build_artifacts.rb --check pass with no errors.