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The new PhysioNet platform.
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WFDB-compatible directory/URL structure #242

Open bemoody opened 5 years ago

bemoody commented 5 years ago

URLs such as 'https://physionet.org/physiobank/database/mitdb/100.hea' must be maintained.

Likewise 'https://physionet.org/physiobank/database/wfdbcal', 'https://physionet.org/physiobank/database/DBS' and possibly other things.

/physiobank/database/ could in theory be a symlink to some other location if you think that's prettier. But, to make lightwave (and future things) work in a sane way, we do actually want to have a single directory containing

DBS
mitdb/RECORDS
mitdb/100.hea
mitdb/100.dat
mimic3wdb/RECORDS
mimic3wdb/30/3000003/3000003_0008.hea

and so forth...

bemoody commented 5 years ago

It's also worth mentioning that for security, the main PhysioBank directory must never contain data for unpublished projects, even if restricted by filesystem or webserver permissions.

We want to know that if sandboxed-lightwave (or anything else: rsync server, sftp server, bittorrent server, ...) chroots into that directory, it will be incapable of accessing any private data.

I doubt this will ever be an issue but I figured it was worth pointing out.