Minutes_MiniStd_2019 08

MiniStd Call 2019-08

Agenda

Decisions

• Changes to the "Age" field to accommodate for age ranges (#192)

Follow-up

• Subdomain for CAIRR at airr-community.org

New topics

• General handling of quantities with ranges and different units
• Geographical locations: How to annotate country level information?
• Should relations between subjects be moved into Study?

Minutes

Meta

• Date: Fri, 2019-09-13 13:30 UTC
• Present: Ahmad, Brian, Christian, Florian, Francisco, John, Marcos, Sri

Decisions

• The replacement of the field age with age_min, age_max and age_unit was approved. This considered to be a change in data representation, not in content, thus it will enter the standard in AIRRv1.3.

Follow-up

• Subdomain for CAIRR: The subdomain cairr.airr-community.org has been approved by ExCom. Brian has setup the domain, but still needs a URL to redirect to.

New topics

• General handling of quantities with ranges and different units: We will use #192 as an example in the docs on how to handle ranges and multiple units for a field.
• We agreed that adding country information regarding place of birth (Subject) and place of sampling (Sample) would be a valuable addition. Will look into encoding of this information and MiAIRR status and discuss again in MiniStd Call 2019-09.
• Should relations between subjects be moved into Study: While there was a consensus that this would simplify working with more complex relationships (e.g. grand-parents to grand-children), there was also doubt whether there is a real need for change at this point. Therefore it was decided to shelf this topic for now, but nevertheless create a ticket to document it (#308).