extra metadata slot for workflow documentation #96
Description
I would really like a way to track what methods I have applied on the datasets, in the style of like the metadata that CDO etc builds up at the end of the a netCDF file:
You have metadata for spatial and temporal aggregation, In the "STAInfo" object, it would be great to have something like "method.applied" = "raw_data" (example below) , when reading in the data. Later in my workflow, after reading in some data, I want to create a new DGVMTools Field for the gini-coefficient for a given timeseries, but that is not a model output per se, I calculate that from different fields like number or stems per sizeclass and Basal area or Cwood per sizeclass. I want to be able to track that I have created Field "gini" from "cwood_size" and "BA_size", using the function get_gini_coeff. And all that I could paste as a string into the info method.applied, when running my calculate_gini function..
return.sta.info <- new("STAInfo",
first.year = df$Year[1], # let's say
.....
subannual.original = "daily", # let's say
method.applied = "raw_data") <- Addition here. The rest could be done outside DGVMTools, in people's own functions.
I think it would make workflows more traceable. I love your metadata documentation approach, but don't see how I can myself quickly add more metadata categories.