Package ome.xml.meta
Interface BaseMetadata
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- All Known Subinterfaces:
IMetadata
,MetadataRetrieve
,MetadataStore
,OMEXMLMetadata
- All Known Implementing Classes:
AbstractOMEXMLMetadata
,AggregateMetadata
,DummyMetadata
,FilterMetadata
,OMEXMLMetadataImpl
public interface BaseMetadata
A proxy capable of bidirectional communication of biological image data to and from a particular storage medium.The
BaseMetadata
interface is implemented by metadata storage implementations that handles both storage (seeMetadataStore
) and retrieval (seeMetadataRetrieve
) of metadata fields. It exists mainly to storeMetadataStore
andMetadataRetrieve
object types within the same container.- Author:
- Roger Leigh r.leigh at dundee.ac.uk