LitCurate: A Configuration-Driven AI-Assisted Framework for Scientific Database Construction with an Application to Lower-Mantle Equation-of-State Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27629v1
• Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:11:26 GMT
• Title: LitCurate: A Configuration-Driven AI-Assisted Framework for Scientific Database Construction with an Application to Lower-Mantle Equation-of-State Data
• Abstract summary: We present LitCurate, an open-source framework for building scientific databases from the literature.<n>We apply LitCurate to construct an equation-of-state database of lower-mantle and lower-mantle-relevant high-pressure mineral phases from experimental and theoretical studies.
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• Abstract: The growing scientific literature contains decades of experimental and computational results that could support data-driven and physics-based modeling, yet much of this infor- mation remains locked in publications and is not readily usable for large-scale analysis or sci- entific software. Building structured databases from the literature is particularly challenging whenrelevantstudiesmustfirstbediscoveredamonglargecollectionsofpapersandreported quantities must be extracted with enough scientific context to remain usable. We present LitCurate, an open-source framework for building scientific databases from the literature using large language models within an auditable, stage-wise curation workflow. LitCurate integratesliteraturediscovery, relevancescreening, full-textprocessing, andstructuredinfor- mation extraction while retaining intermediate results and provenance, allowing researchers to inspect and revise individual stages rather than treating automated curation as a black- box process. We apply LitCurate to construct an equation-of-state database of lower-mantle and lower-mantle-relevant high-pressure mineral phases from experimental and theoretical studies, comprising 1,334 entries from 205 papers. The resulting dataset links reported equation-of-state parameters to mineral phases, compositions, equation formulations, meth- ods, and parameter constraints, and labels values as source-reported or citation-reported when provenance can be determined. The records are available through a searchable web application. By connecting scientific literature to traceable, machine-readable data, LitCu- rate provides a reusable approach for transforming accumulated literature into resources for scientific analysis and computational modeling.

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