Re: [Treebase-devel] [dryad-dev] Dryad/TreeBASE metadata relationships

[Hilmar L. <hl...@ne...>]

On May 13, 2011, at 6:47 AM, Ryan Scherle wrote:

> QUESTION: Should the metadata differ based on the repository where  
> an item was first deposited? In other words, should the Dryad/ 
> TreeBASE metadata look different for items that were submitted to  
> Dryad then forwarded to TreeBASE, vs. items that were first  
> submitted to TreeBASE then included in a Dryad data package?


I think it would place a high (and not well justifiable in terms of  
gain) burden on prospective users of the API if they had to know which  
of several possible ways a Dryad package got connected to a TreeBASE  
study. It sounds like a bad idea to me, frankly.

	-hilmar
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