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Figure 5. Example of the structural design of an odML file. The displayed Sections, Properties and Values are a subset of the odML Subject branch of the reach-to-grasp experiment (Subject_Demo.odml). Metadata are stored in the “data” attributes of odML Value objects, which also provide additional attributes to describe the datatype (dtype), the unit or the uncertainty of the Value. Which metadata are stored in the Values is defined by the connected Property object via its “name” and “definition” attribute. These Property-Value/s pairs that contain metadata of a similar context are grouped together into a Section object that is given a “name” and a “definition.” If a sub-context needs to be defined in more detail, Sections can also group other Sections together containing the corresponding metadata again in Property-Value/s pairs. To finalize the tree structure, Sections which are highest in the hierarchy are grouped together into a Document object which can state additional information on the odML file, such as who created it (“author”), when it was created (“date”), or which code or template version was used to create it.

Zehl, L.; Jaillet, F.; Stoewer, A.; Grewe, J.; Sobolev, A.; Wachtler, T.; Brochier, T.G.; Riehle, A.; Denker, M.; Grün, S. (2016). "Handling metadata in a neurophysiology laboratory". Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 10: 26. doi:10.3389/fninf.2016.00026. 

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Zehl, L.; Jaillet, F.; Stoewer, A.; Grewe, J.; Sobolev, A.; Wachtler, T.; Brochier, T.G.; Riehle, A.; Denker, M.; Grün, S.

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