Ideal data model missing: status of trial?

opentrials / cochrane-schizophrenia-data

Cleaned data from the Cochrane schizophrenia database

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Open roll opened 9 years ago

roll commented 9 years ago

Background Related to #21 issue.

Topic Cochrane database has a field status (text) on Trial entity. Example values:

pwalsh commented 9 years ago

This is really important, and we need to standardise. How many variants to cochrane have?

I'm happy in this case if our conversion is "lossy" and we are able to settle on a list of states:

roll commented 9 years ago

Hi, @pwalsh!

Cochrane has only:

pwalsh commented 9 years ago

I wonder what "" is supposed to mean. We could have a choice called "undefined" or something.

roll commented 9 years ago

Looks like no data (it's an empy string) - NULL, "undefined" for us etc