nfdi4plants/ARC-specification

Is top-level arc.cwl optional or a must?

omaus opened this issue · 3 comments

omaus commented

ARC specification.md says

Top-level metadata and workflow description tie together the elements of an ARC in the contexts of investigation and associated studies (in the ISA definition), captured in the file isa.investigation.xlsx in ISA-XLSX format, which MUST be present. Furthermore, top-level reproducibility information MUST be provided in the CWL arc.cwl, which also MUST exist.

and further

Top-Level Run Description

The file arc.cwl MUST exist at the root directory of each ARC. It describes which runs are executed (and specifically, their order) to (re)produce the computational outputs contained within the ARC.

but in the Example below it's

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So what is it now? Optional or required?

Same Question here

Maybe we could change MUST to SHOULD.

@HLWeil you mean we MUST change MUST to SHOULD ? 😆