Chapter 6: ADaM Metadata and ADaM Define.xml

Metadata Spreadsheets

Variable Metadata in ADaM

Analysis Parameter Value-Level Metadata

Analysis Results Metadata

Building Define.xml

Define.xml Navigation and Rendering

Chapter Summary

As discussed in Chapter 1, one of the fundamental principles of ADaM analysis datasets is that they be accompanied by metadata. The ADaM 2.1 model document contains a full section on ADaM metadata, including illustrations of concepts such as analysis dataset metadata, analysis variable metadata, analysis parameter value-level metadata, and analysis results metadata. If you are familiar with SDTM metadata, then many of these ADaM metadata concepts will be familiar. They serve the same purpose of helping to describe the ...

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