User guide

This chapter contains user guides describing various aspects of MetaLad.

• Meet Metalad, an extension to datalad that supports metadata handling
  • Preparations
  • Working with metadata
  • Metadata extraction examples
  • Add metadata
  • Display (retrieve) metadata
  • Adding a lot of metadata with meta-conduct
  • Joining metadata from multiple datasets with meta-aggregate
• Writing custom extractors
  • Base class
  • Required methods
  • Passing runtime parameter to extractors
  • Use external programs for metadata extraction
  • Making extractors discoverable
  • Tips