TY  - JOUR
AU  - Sprenger, Julia
AU  - Zehl, Lyuba
AU  - Pick, Jana
AU  - Sonntag, Michael
AU  - Grewe, Jan
AU  - Wachtler, Thomas
AU  - Grün, Sonja
AU  - Denker, Michael
TI  - odMLtables: A User-Friendly Approach for Managing Metadata of Neurophysiological Experiments
JO  - Frontiers in neuroinformatics
VL  - 13
SN  - 1662-5196
CY  - Lausanne
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
M1  - FZJ-2019-04875
SP  - 62
PY  - 2019
AB  - An essential aspect of scientific reproducibility is a coherent and complete acquisition of metadata along with the actual data of an experiment. The high degree of complexity and heterogeneity of neuroscience experiments requires a rigorous management of the associated metadata. The odML framework represents a solution to organize and store complex metadata digitally in a hierarchical format that is both human and machine readable. However, this hierarchical representation of metadata is difficult to handle when metadata entries need to be collected and edited manually during the daily routines of a laboratory. With odMLtables, we present an open-source software solution that enables users to collect, manipulate, visualize, and store metadata in tabular representations (in xls or csv format) by providing functionality to convert these tabular collections to the hierarchically structured metadata format odML, and to either extract or merge subsets of a complex metadata collection. With this, odMLtables bridges the gap between handling metadata in an intuitive way that integrates well with daily lab routines and commonly used software products on the one hand, and the implementation of a complete, well-defined metadata collection for the experiment in a standardized format on the other hand. We demonstrate usage scenarios of the odMLtables tools in common lab routines in the context of metadata acquisition and management, and show how the tool can assist in exploring published datasets that provide metadata in the odML format.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:31611781
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000488101100001
DO  - DOI:10.3389/fninf.2019.00062
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/865390
ER  -