DH - Discuss and decide on how to handle units in DH

[mslarae13]

From a DH meeting, @cmungall would like thus to limit this. Depth = meters {value} m elevation = meters {value} m

so it's assumed people will provide this information in the correct units.

To be decided / determined

• Do we still want users to write in the unit? Should they wrote 0-.1 m or just 0-0.1
• Can DH validate this? or is this a human spot check
• MIxS has not settled on how to handle this, but there's an open ticket.

[mslarae13]

0-0.1 m so the format is consistent with MIxS, but we constrain to m 5 cm = WRONG needs to be 0.5 m < flag as invalid {upper depth - lower depth} m .. Mark and Chris will sort out how to parse & validation

[mslarae13]

Required units have been decided. Validation of these required units is being worked on by Mark.