private entries in scientific metadata

[jkotan]

Summary

Our users don't want to see all entries in the tree view in the front-end. On the other hand they would like to have them in DB to use them in the post-processing data and have them in the json view ("Show Metadata").

Currently we use quite useful mechanism to hide data in the tree-view related to unit i.e. if we add 'unit' to the scientificMetadata nested dictionary on some level only 'unit' and 'value' are displayed.

I think it would be good to introduce also a second mechanism e.g. in the scientificMetadata tree view we could hide entries with names starting e.g. from '_' or '@'.

Current Behaviour

All entries in the frontend sceintificMetadata tree-view are displayed

Expected Behaviour

In the frontend sceintificMetadata all entries with names starting with '_' or '@' could be hidden.

[bpedersen2]

I think this does not fit the purpose of a data catalogue:

All metadata that the catalog has, should be searchable and displayed. If additional data ( I would not even call those metadata)) are needed for evaluation, then it should be part of the data (either in an integrated data format like nexus, or just as an additional file besides the main datafiles.