🤔 Problem

Users want to note data that is used in a project that cannot be mounted in a RenkuLab session. For example:

• the path data in a protected environment (for example, on LeoMed)
• a database connection string
• an API endpoint

🍴 Appetite

6 weeks

🎯 Solution

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What name do we give this feature that is intuitive and engaging?

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A meta-only data connector is … in a session is represented as a file containing config. The structure and the content of that file is up to the user.

The user can specify the name this file when mounted in a session, so the user could choose for it to be a yaml file, and envfile, etc.

A Metadata-Only Data Connector has the following properties:

• Name
• Description
• Namespace (owner)
• Visibility
• Name of config file when mounted in session