bmir-radx / radx-data-dictionary-specification

A specification for CSV data dictionaries in the RADx data hub
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Add an Aliases field #9

Open matthewhorridge opened 1 month ago

matthewhorridge commented 1 month ago

The Id is the primary key in a data dictionary. It is used to key fields in data files to the meaning of these fields in the data dictionary. Sometimes, there may be previous versions because of misspellings in the id name, versioning practices or simple name updates. A data dictionary should provide a way of tracking these. To do this we could an Aliases field as an optional field. This would accept multiple ids.