meta-data. In a previous post, we have already described how one can set meta-data to data that are already loaded, and how one can make use of them. QSoas is already able to figure out some meta-data in the case of electrochemical data, most notably in the case of files acquired by GPES, ECLab or CHI potentiostats. However, only a small number of constructors are supported as of now[1], and there are a number of experimental details that the software is never going to be able to figure out for you, such as the pH, the sample, what you were doing... The new version of QSoas provides a means to permanently store meta-data for experimental data files:
QSoas> record-meta pH 7 file.datThis command uses record-meta to permanently store the information
pH = 7for the file
file.dat. Any time QSoas loads the file again, either today or in one year, the meta-data will contain the value 7 for the field pH. Behind the scenes, QSoas creates a single small file, file.dat.qsm, in which the meta-data are stored (in the form of a JSON dictionnary).
You can set the same meta-data to many files in one go, using wildcards (see load for more information). For instance, to set the pH=7 meta-data to all the .dat files in the current directory, you can use:
QSoas> record-meta pH 7 *.datYou can only set one meta-data for each call to record-meta, but you can use it as many times as you like. Finally, you can use the
/for-which option to load or browse to select only the files which have the meta you need:
QSoas> browse /for-which=$meta.pH<=7This command browses the files in the current directory, showing only the ones that have a pH meta-data which is 7 or below.
[1] I'm always ready to implement the parsing of other file formats that could be useful for you. If you need parsing of special files, please contact me, sending the given files and the meta-data you'd expect to find in those.
