Connectivity to other datasets

[ricoderks]

Develop a module for connecting to other datasets.

[cjsifuen]

This would be great!

Would this be a similar idea to FAIRDataCube?

A naive thought on how this could work

1. Link to a searchable and filterable database that contain metadata files of a fixed format.
2. Allow user to search and filter the fixed format metadata files.
3. Use the selected metadata information to pull out the file of interest (specifically formatted counts, for example).
4. Verify format, or format directly, then proceed.

Additional considerations

1. Would need to log database access information (date, version, file, and metadata information)
2. Would want to start with a large database that contains datasets of interest and a very well controlled metadata and data formatting schema.