How is the Neuroinfo database organized?
Data about slides, groups of slides, and contributors is stored in a relational database. The database architecture scales to track new kinds of information easily. The information is stored as small chunks of data, each of which correspond to a carefully crafted Definition. The different small chunks of data can be linked to each other to form groups or to one another in any combination, allowing for the creation of rich sets of connected data. All textual data is also indexed for powerful text searching. Example: Adding A Category In order to categorize slides by ethnicity of the subject, then a definition would be created using the web interface for “Ethnicity” and then this could be populated with all the different ethnic groups. Ethnicity would automatically show up on the search page as a filter, and each ethnic group would have a page that shows all of the corresponding slides. If one researcher enters “White” and later another enters “Caucasian”, there is an administrative tool
