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Welcome to the paleocore wiki!

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The Schema App

The idea behind the schema app is to capture, manage and analyze terms and data schemas used by various paleoanthropological projects. The goal is to organize a paleoanthropology data ontology by selecting terms and concepts that are most widely utilized by various projects, i.e. a grass-roots or bottom-up approach to implementing a data standard. The near-term goal then is to capture the data structure used by other projects and map the relationship of terms and concepts between them.

Data Schemas and Django Models

A practical question that arises immediately is what is the best way to represent a data structure? We have created a database of database terms. In theory a project's schema should coincide with its Django data model. Is it necessary to capture both?