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Schema for figure data #22

Open blaiszik opened 5 years ago

blaiszik commented 5 years ago

Figures have a very specific shape, and it may be helpful to capture this in a schema block

For example, fig description, axis labels, units, etc.

jgaff commented 5 years ago

Are we going to try and separate image from figure, then? Also, how will the figure information be populated?

blaiszik commented 5 years ago

For now, I envision this being populated manually (i.e., putting a JSON formatted file in the same directory as the figure). This came up specifically in the context of the NIST/CHiMaD Polymer data special issue call. Much of the data is essentially the figures for a given paper, this would provide a nice way to store the high level info about them and make them searchable.

jgaff commented 5 years ago

So are we separating image and figure? If the figure is an image it is parsed as an image right now. Will we need to check somehow if the image is a figure, and only populate the image block for non-figures?

It seems to me, though, that the better solution to "make figures searchable" is for the researchers to provide the data for the figures instead of indexing the figures themselves.