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The YAML Observation Data Archive & exchange (YODA) File Format
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Cannot group results in Specimen Template #19

Open SRGDamia1 opened 9 years ago

SRGDamia1 commented 9 years ago

The specimen template forces you to have only 1 result produced per action. This means that if you want to enter the method for an analysis that produced 5 results (say, an ICP analysis that gave results for multiple chemical concentrations) you would have to actually create 5 separate but identical columns of methods, 1 for each result. Then these would create 5 separate actions, again 1 for each result. This same thing would apply to any other information about the action (ie, date/times, associated people, etc).

This makes sense with the way I set up the template, but it's a pain for entering data and senselessly splits up bits of information that should be unified.

emiliom commented 9 years ago

For what it's worth, the design of the ODM2 schema (Actions vs FeatureActions vs Results) was specifically set to allow that kind of helpful grouping (ie, one action providing multiple results). You're right, it'd be a shame if the YODA specimen template can't leverage that capability.

Just my 0.1 cent, from my YODA-naive perspective. Back to my non-YODA corner of the world ...

SRGDamia1 commented 9 years ago

I definitely agree. It just didn't come up in any of the example data I had been working with so I didn't think to set the template up to deal with the data that way. I'll work on it!

klehnert55 commented 9 years ago

In my opinion the YODA files don't work for specimen data at the moment in any practical and reasonable way.

Would be great to find a usable solution.

Kerstin

On 4/27/15 20:39 PM, Emilio Mayorga wrote:

For what it's worth, the design of the ODM2 schema (Actions vs FeatureActions vs Results) was specifically set to allow that kind of helpful grouping (ie, one action providing multiple results). You're right, it'd be a shame if the YODA specimen template can't leverage that capability.

Just my 0.1 cent, from my YODA-naive perspective. Back to my non-YODA corner of the world ...

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SRGDamia1 commented 9 years ago

@klehnert55 is there anything more specific that you think makes the specimen YODA files and templates non-workable? I would really love more data and test cases before publishing a "release" of the specimen version, but I think I already do have something functional. My template doesn't yet have all of the features I'd like it to have, but I think it's already pretty powerful. And while the resulting YAML isn't pretty or easy to read without a parser, I'm under the impression that @jmeline has been able to make a good stab at reading out the data and pushing it into an ODM2 database.