Knowledge Base Module

The knowledge base as the name suggests is there for storing information. This is a posgresql database with tables organized in a way that makes it easy to search for information. This is especially true for the Paper class instances and API calls.

Usually, the end user will not really interact with the database, but will use the project meta-class to search for different things.

Below is the database schema, there might be some small changes as we develop the package further:

There are a lot of modalities represented in the database, and some of them are split into several different tables.

All of the tables are centered around the project table where each different item refers to a project. One thing that is not ideal in this schema is if, for example, you have the same paper for different projects, you will need to save it twice.

In future iterations we will try to make the schema more normalized and make it easier to search for different things across projects.

Notes:

The knowledge base is soley there to abstract the database features for the project module. There are no functions, methods or useful items for a user to interact with the knowledgebase directly. This documentation is here for reference for developers.