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Literature

By E2ER contributors

Turns a folder of PDFs or a Zotero library into verified claims.

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Input
A folder of local PDFs or a Zotero library
Output
A searchable library of claims, each tied to a verbatim passage

Description

Data model
Discipline
General
Method family
Literature review
Design
not specified
Research stage
Literature discoveryLiterature synthesis
Contributors
E2ER contributors (Software, Methodology)
Usage
not used in published research yet
Source
E2ER repository
Record
template:literature · JSON

Solid tags are declared by the source or mapped from its terms; dashed tags are inferred by a published rule. Hover a tag for its provenance.

Steps

  1. 1
    read
    Extract text, repair ligatures and hyphenation, remove running page headers.
    specialist-free
  2. 2
    review
    A specialist writes a structured review: findings, data, sample, methods, limitations, each with the passage it rests on.
    specialist
  3. 3
    verify passages
    A claim is kept only if its passage is found verbatim in the source. Unlocatable claims are rejected, never flagged and kept.
    check
  4. 4
    store and search
    Verified claims enter a local library that can be searched by claim, returning the sentence, section and DOI.
    specialist-free

Versions and evaluations

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Persistent identifiers planned 
@software{e2ercontributors2026e2erliteraturetemplate,
  title   = {E2ER literature template},
  author  = {E2ER contributors},
  year    = {2026},
  note    = {E2ER template. Persistent identifier planned},
  url     = {https://e2er.org/templates/literature}
}
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Connectors this template can use

What a run of this template can reach outside your machine, and what each sends out.

Anthropic APILeaves your machine: Prompts, including passages and data summaries OpenRouterLeaves your machine: Prompts, including passages and data summaries Claude CodeLeaves your machine: Prompts, including passages and data summaries CodexLeaves your machine: Prompts, including passages and data summaries GeminiLeaves your machine: Prompts, including passages and data summaries PDF folderLeaves your machine: Nothing leaves your machine Zotero library (local)Leaves your machine: Nothing leaves your machine Zotero Web APILeaves your machine: Queries only OpenAlexLeaves your machine: References or search terms CrossrefLeaves your machine: References or search terms Semantic ScholarLeaves your machine: References or search terms arXivLeaves your machine: Queries only UnpaywallLeaves your machine: References or search terms GitHubLeaves your machine: Files, to your own account

Checks on this template

  • ✓Output contracts · Every step produced the artifact it declared, in the declared form
    Required of every template.
  • ✓Execution reliability · Analysis code ran and wrote a parseable, non-empty result
    Required of every template.
  • –Numbers · Every number in tables and text matches the output of executed code
    Not applicable. This method produces no computed numbers to match.
  • ○Citations · Every reference resolves to an existing publication via OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar or Crossref
    Proposed. Proposed for the floor; runs log it but may not block on it.
  • ✓Verbatim passages · Every claim about a source points to a passage found word for word in that source
    Built into this template.

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