Glossary
request form
request form is access granted after a manual signup, membership or quote step instead of through an open endpoint, which the catalog classifies as a access method. In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, delivery_channel= and ECIA electronic component sales data are working examples.
What is request form?
Access granted after a manual signup, membership or quote step instead of through an open endpoint.
ECIA member reports, SIA's WSTS subscription dashboard and UL Product iQ's free account are all gated behind a registration or request form.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - delivery_channel=. - ECIA electronic component sales data — "member and survey-participant reports". - SIA semiconductor data resources — "WSTS subscription, quote-based institutional licenses". - UL Product iQ certification database — "complimentary account required".
Why does request form matter when choosing a dataset?
Access method sets your maintenance bill. Delivery routes change, layouts drift and scrapers rot quietly; whoever operates your pipeline inherits all of it, which is why access should be priced alongside the license itself.
The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.
You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and delivery_channel= lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate request form in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open delivery_channel= and compare its listing against the delivered artifact before paying for a commercial equivalent.
- Open ECIA electronic component sales data and confirm its record — "member and survey-participant reports" — against the files you actually receive.
- Open SIA semiconductor data resources and confirm its record — "WSTS subscription, quote-based institutional licenses" — against the files you actually receive.
- Pin down update cadence in writing. Across this catalog, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets refresh daily and 64 still arrive only through a manual request form, so ask exactly how fresh each release is.
- Check whether definitions are verified at all. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), and any source you license should meet that bar.
- Price the delivery route before the license. In this catalog bulk download is the most common access method (725 datasets) ahead of official APIs (574), and 379 sources still require scraping — a maintenance cost that lands on you, not the vendor.
See the term applied to real records: electrical-components-equipment data, oil-gas-exploration-production data.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - bulk download - official API - Open Government Licence (OGL) - trade association statistics - UL listing - WSTS billings data
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of request form?
delivery_channel= is the clearest example in this catalog. Its listing is the reference point for this pattern. Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "request form" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
How do I verify a source really provides request form?
Open delivery_channel= next to ECIA electronic component sales data and compare the promise with the download. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), which makes that check fast inside the catalog and manual outside it.
Datasets containing this field
Datasets containing request form
6 datasets carry request form in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
Digi-Key API (Product Information V4) Data
Avnet electronics catalog data
BEA GDP-by-industry (iTable)
data.gov federal open data catalog
Destatis manufacturing statistics
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