Paleopathology: Standard tabular output

[cuboideum]

All data that are entered should be retrievable through a standard tabular output so that users can access them without SPARQL knowledge.

With the paleopathology module, output is relatively difficult to standardise for the following reasons:

• For each individual, there is a specific number of pathological observations on different pathologies. The number of observations for each pathology type also varies.
• Many pathological observations describe lesions that affect various anatomical regions of interest.
• Many observations contain conditional data items, i.e. items that only occur if other data items have a specific state.

As a consequence, all dataset sections on pathological observations have a different structure.

Should standard outputs be based on dataset sections (i.e. individual observations), pathology types (e.g.bone addition) or individuals?

Should there be separate outputs for data referring to anatomical regions of interest (i.e. data from ROI specifications) and data referring to observations or should one table contain all information at the price of redundant information?

[cuboideum]

@JEB13, @HannahLiedl, @hayesleigh, @jstamer95, @jessica-rothwell and @sacheever: Please discuss on the background of planned data analyses and post feedback as discussed in today's meeting.

[cuboideum]

@hayesleigh and @cuboideum discussed this issue in a video conference on 10 August 2023. They decided that @cuboideum should go ahead with creating queries. If need be, members of the Phaleron project could then request changes to these.