This repository contains re-usable odML templates.
It is meant as a template exchange and discussion forum for new odML templates or updates to existing ones.
A general introduction to odML and its usage can be found at the main odML page.
If you would like to contribute and provide a new template to be shared with the community, please create a Pull Request on this repository.
odML (open metadata Markup Language) is a framework, proposed by Grewe et al. (2011), to organize and store experimental metadata in a human- and machine-readable, XML based format (odml). In this tutorial we will illustrate the conceptual design of the odML framework and show hands-on how you can generate your own odML metadata file collection. A well organized metadata management of your experiment is a key component to guarantee the reproducibility of your research and facilitate the provenance tracking of your analysis projects.
Metadata are data about data. They describe the conditions under which the actual raw-data of an experimental study were acquired. The organization of such metadata and their accessibility may sound like a trivial task, and most laboratories developed their home-made solutions to keep track of their metadata. Most of these solutions, however, break down if data and metadata need to be shared within a collaboration, because implicit knowledge of what is important and how it is organized is often underestimated.
While maintaining the relation to the actual raw-data, odML can help to collect all metadata which are usually distributed over several files and formats, and to store them unitedly which facilitates sharing data and metadata.
- open, XML based language, to collect, store and share metadata
- Machine- and human-readable
- Python-odML library
- Interactive odML-Editor