2.3.3.3.191. NXserialized

Status:

base class, extends NXobject

Description:

Metadata to a set of pieces of information of a resource that has been serialize ...

Metadata to a set of pieces of information of a resource that has been serialized.

A typical use case is the documentation of the source (file) or database (entry) from which pieces of information have been extracted for consumption in e.g. a research data management system (RDMS). This may be for reasons of enabling services such as providing access to normalized information for which reading again from the resource may not be desired, possibe, or feasible.

Possible reasons could be the extraction of specific information for caching, performance reasons, or re-evaluate given pieces of information based on other views and interaction patterns with the data where information has been formatted differently by tools than how these pieces of information were originally serialized.

Symbols:

No symbol table

Groups cited:

NXnote

Structure:

type: (optional) NX_CHAR

Answers into what resource the information was serialized. ...

Answers into what resource the information was serialized.

Any of these values: file | database

path: (optional) NX_CHAR

Path to the resource. ...

Path to the resource.

E.g. the name of a file or its absolute or relative path, or the identifier to a resource in another database.

checksum: (optional) NX_CHAR

Value of the hash that is obtained when running algorithm ...

Value of the hash that is obtained when running algorithm on the content of the resource referred to by path.

algorithm: (optional) NX_CHAR

Name of the algorithm whereby the checksum was computed.

file: (optional) NXnote

Extracted file containing the serialized information.

Hypertext Anchors

List of hypertext anchors for all groups, fields, attributes, and links defined in this class.

NXDL Source:

https://github.com/FAIRmat-NFDI/nexus_definitions/tree/fairmat/contributed_definitions/NXserialized.nxdl.xml