Priorities for improving sibd functionality

SoilBGC-Datashare / sidb

Soil Incubation Database sidb

https://soilbgc-datashare.github.io/sidb/

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Priorities for improving sibd functionality #4

Closed jb388 closed 5 years ago

jb388 commented 5 years ago

There are two main goals that I think need to be prioritized to improve the functionality of sidb: 1) Harmonizing units

out of 31 entries, we have 29 unique names for units
some of these may be just spelling issues, but some sort of unit conversion tool would be really helpful

2) Linkages between timeseries of mean values and the associated timeseries of the error estimates (SD, SE)

not a big deal right now as only one study actually includes SD data (Bracho2016SBB)

Any ideas? Time/motivation to work these issues? Or other priorities?

jb388 commented 5 years ago

Code tests/QAQC for initConditions records to map multiple entries for a given site to the correct timeseries
- For example, the initConditions file for Stewart2008SBB has two rows of data reported per site, but there is no identifying column for matching these data with appropriate timeseries

jb388 commented 5 years ago

To address point No. 2 (above), I added a field called "meanName" in the variables section with the following instructions: "If variable statistic = "SD" or "SE", enter the name of corresponding mean variable here"

jb388 commented 5 years ago

@aahoyt reminded me that associated variables could also be other gases, so I changed the name and description of the new linking field to: primaryVariableName "Links variable with associated timeseries data collected on the same sample, e.g. SD data or 13C-CO2 data associated with mean CO2 data"