Your Team Can Build an OPTIMADE Client. Here's Why You Probably Shouldn't.
Building an OPTIMADE client is a reasonable engineering decision. The spec is well-documented, the Python tooling is open source, and most R&D teams have the capability. The question is not whether you can build it. The question is what it actually costs, and whether that cost makes sense for a team whose output is materials science, not infrastructure. What Does “Building It” Actually Mean? A minimal client that queries one OPTIMADE provider and returns results is an afternoon of work. That’s the prototype. ...