Update large number of experiments to database from csv

[aagamrshah]

Interesting new feature: Update large number of experiments to database from csv or some similar format. We can make a template spreadsheet whose values can be populated and then run a small script to update those values to the database. We will need to devise a method to upload the SEM images and the Raman spectra

[dadamsncsa]

A couple of questions and a comment:

• What is the need exactly, why is this better than using the current GrResq submit?
• Is this a feature of GrResq (eq one would upload the file using the tool), or a internal feature just for us.
• We have a csv loading script that may be adaptable for this that was used to load the original 50 or so entries

[aagamrshah]

Answers:

• It is difficult and time-consuming if we (or anyone else) want to upload more than a few (10 or more) experiments to the database together
• Initially, it should be an internal feature. If the room for human error is less, we can make it a public feature
• The CSV loading script sounds good