MIT-LCP / MIT-LCP/physionet

few questions about 'database' metadata, and versioning

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Very well done and lovely project! thanks

We thought may be to provide access to datasets you provide via https://github.com/datalad/datalad/ (based on git/git-annex). Here is e.g. a sample git/annex repository http://datasets.datalad.org/test/physionet/eegmmidb/ which accesses data from your website. Before jumping to just crawl the entire website from https://physionet.org/physiobank/database/ I wondered to ask

  • is list of database (datasets) is available in some machine readable form?
  • per each database, all that information (citations, description) - does it leave solely in html or composed from some centralized DB?
  • how do you "version" files? i.e. if authors reupload newer/fixed versions -- do they just replace old copies? or it never happened (yet)?

Thank you in advance!

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Review the PhysioNet database page, the DataLad sample repository, and the questions about machine-readable dataset listings, metadata sources, and file versioning. First determine whether the issue has a concrete implementation target; done would require an agreed scope and documented behavior for dataset metadata and version history.

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Assessment

Tech stack
git, html
Domain
databases, documentation
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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