In the sample attributes, when adding a value for "tissue growth media" I see a text box, but the example shows me a URL - I am not sure which to provide

[sierra-moxon]

Bug summary

when adding data for "tissue growth media" I see a text box, but the example shows me a URL - I am not sure which to provide

Bug details

The tissue culture growth media input field is a text box. Because of this, I expect I should be able to describe in words what my tissue culture growth media is (tangential question - should this actually be a controlled vocabulary of terms instead of free text?) I started entering text, but then, when consulting the example, I saw a URL -- does that mean it should be the URL for a paper that describes my materials and methods?

Steps to reproduce

1. Launch app
2. create a study
3. create a sample
4. fill in the tissue culture growth media field

Anything else?

No response

App version

No response

Device type

Apple

Operating system version

iOS 17.6.1

[mslarae13]

This is a broader submission / schema issue too.
It's all a text box really. So if it's a URL, should we have a different formatted box?

Though, I can say, from getting metadata from users. They almost ALWAYS provide text. Not a URL.

[mslarae13]

Is this https://microbiomedata.github.io/submission-schema/tiss_cult_growth_med/
?

[pkalita-lbl]

Yeah, my understanding is that we're talking about this slot: https://microbiomedata.github.io/submission-schema/tiss_cult_growth_med/

The description of the slot says "Description of plant tissue culture growth media used" which is fairly generic. The example for the slot is https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF02796489.pdf. I believe that led to the confusion about what should be actually entered into the text box: a textual description? a URL where a description of the method can be found? In reality I believe either of those are acceptable. So maybe the answer here is that the slot's description should be expanded to explicitly state what type(s) of thing(s) we're looking for.

[pkalita-lbl]

Since this is a schema issue I'm closing this issue in favor of an issue in the nmdc-schema repo

Duplicate of microbiomedata/nmdc-schema#2267