OpenSpecimen community, we have a need for capturing additional metadata for freezer containers for inventory, insurance and liability compliance. Currently container custom fields can only be applied globally to every container type to generate forms. This is not workable as we need additional metadata for top level types such as freezers rather than vials or boxes.
Do other sites have this type of need and how to do you use OpenSpecimen for this or if you don’t use OpenSpecimen for this purpose why or what is impending you. We’d like to solve this as we have freezers, have child specimens and generating a list of freezers with types of specimens should be possible but we need additional metadata to complete the list and this type of of functionality in OS would be ideal. Would like to hear everyone’s thoughts.