DH - Identify terms without formatting criteria and review at metadata meeting on 12/15

[turbomam]

Is formatting criteria the same thing as DH validation rules?

MIxS slots, as defined by mixs-source, can have a range and/or a string serialization.

The slots/columns @mslarae13 defined in SNTC can have string serializations, which appear in a column called 'pattern'.

Conversions between these rules and rules that DH understands (datatype or regular expression pattern) are currently hard coded into XXX but are being migrated to the validation_converter tab in Soil-NMDC-Template_Compiled

40 out of 49 rules have been converted to datatypes or regular expression patterns.

Should we work on the remaining 9?

• {{text}|{float} {unit}};{float} {unit}
• {boolean};{Rn/start_time/end_time/duration}
  • what Boolean expressions are acceptable? T, True, true, 1...?
• {float} {unit};{Rn/start_time/end_time/duration}
• {PMID}|{DOI}|{URL}
• {PMID}|{DOI}|{URL}|{text}
  • do we really wnat to define patterns for PMIDs, DOIs or URLs?
• {term}: {term}, {text}
  • what's the difference between a term, a term ID and a term label?
• {termLabel} {[termID]}|{text}
• {text};{float} {unit};{Rn/start_time/end_time/duration}
• {text};{Rn/start_time/end_time/duration}

[turbomam]

Or is this more about reporting the required formats than performing the validation?

Sme of the regular expression are quite long and it might not be appropriate to report them in the DH double-click description or guidance.

It probably is good to include

• string serialization
• min and max
• required unique
• examples

There are separate issues for several of those. I will try to reference those.

[ssarrafan]

In stand up today the idea was to hold off on the additional 9 until we get some feedback. Does that sound reasonable @pvangay and @emileyfadrosh? I'll move to February for now.

[pvangay]

@ssarrafan makes sense to wait til they get feedback on the above. A quick look - I think they warrant discussion at a metadata meeting.

[ssarrafan]

@turbomam reported this is done and issue can be closed during mid-sprint check-in today.