CONTRIBUTING.md

# Contributing to the Open Reaction Database

Thanks for helping out! What would you like to do?

* [Report an issue](#report-an-issue)
* [Suggest an improvement (such as a new dataset)](#suggest-an-improvement)
* [Submit a new dataset](#submit-a-new-dataset)

## Report an issue

Sorry to hear that you're having trouble! Please [file a bug report](https://github.com/Open-Reaction-Database/ord-data/issues/new?assignees=&labels=bug&template=bug_report.md&title=) to tell us about the problem.

## Suggest an improvement

Great idea! Please [create a feature request](https://github.com/Open-Reaction-Database/ord-data/issues/new?assignees=&labels=enhancement&template=feature_request.md&title=) to let us know what you'd like to see.

## Submit a new dataset

Excellent! Please follow the
[Submission Workflow](https://ord-schema.readthedocs.io/en/latest/submissions.html)
in the documentation.

**Note on large files (Git LFS):** Published datasets under `data/` are stored
with [Git LFS](https://git-lfs.com/), and clones fetch the objects from the
[Hugging Face mirror](https://huggingface.co/datasets/open-reaction-database/ord-data)
to conserve GitHub bandwidth. A new submission staged at the repository root is
an ordinary file, so you can push it from a fork with no LFS setup; the
submission workflow moves it into `data/` for you.

Only if you push changes to a file that already lives under `data/` (i.e. an LFS
object) do you need to point LFS uploads at your own fork first, since you cannot
write to the canonical repository's LFS store:

```
git config lfs.pushurl https://github.com/<your-username>/ord-data.git/info/lfs
```

## Terms of Use

By submitting Contributions (as defined below) to this project, you agree that
You (as defined below) and your Contributions are bound to the following terms.

<p align="center">Open Reaction Database Project License Agreement</p> 

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