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Create a user-friendly data catalog from structured metadata
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DOC: Explain difference between catalog schema and catalog data?" #304

Open jsheunis opened 1 year ago

jsheunis commented 1 year ago

Q: "Why and how is the metadata that adheres to the catalog schema different from the metadata in a functional catalog?"

Comment by @mslw in https://github.com/psychoinformatics-de/rfd/pull/68:

When DataLad Catalog is fed with json lines (catalog add), it will write their content to files inside a catalog instance, updating or extending already stored content. So it is not a copy of what was added, but rather a further derivative and an amalgam of different additions.

To be explained somewhere in the docs.