Re: Managing measurement metadata

[Lukas Reichlin]

On 11.01.2014, at 17:24, CdeMills <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I do a lot of data acquistions followed by post-processing in Octave. In
> order to ease data management, I would like to share experience about best
> practices for helping finding the link between data and real world
> parameter. 
> 
> To give a short example: I have 8 sensors (thermocouples), then some device
> transforming the thermocouple voltage into a temperature. Each reading may
> thus be characterised by
> - the sensor
> - the converter
> - its timestamp
> - a short description of where the sensor is, to which device it is
> attached, the purpose of the experiment, and so on.
> 
> Are there good practices to store and retrieve those metadata  in Octave ?
> How to link efficiently (i.e. with a minimum redundancy) specific reading to
> its full context ?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Pascal

Hi Pascal,

You may want to have a look at the iddata class of the control package:

http://octave.sourceforge.net/control/function/iddata.html

The class is intended to store measurements and metadata for system 
identification.

Hope this helps,
Lukas