Describing Battery Data

The metadata schemas used by battdat standardize how we describe the source of battery datasets and annotate what the data are. Metadata are held as part of the battdat.data.BatteryDataset object and saved within the file formats produced by battdat to ensure that the provenance of a dataset is kept alongside the actual data.

Descriptions are defined in two parts:

1. Source Metadata: Information about a battery dataset applicable to all measurements.

2. Column Schemas: Details about a specific table of measurements.

Contents:

• Source Metadata
  • Metadata Structure
  • Source of Terminology
  • Metadata Objects
• Column Schemas
  • Using a Column Schema
  • Pre-defined Schema
  • Defining a New Column Schema