[Compilation]: Future Features

[CodyCBakerPhD]

This is a meta-issue compiling many individual ones; with the current round of work on the GUIDE coming to an end, the individual issues will be closed for bookkeeping but may be re-opened when/if they are tackled in the future

• [Post-v1.0] Easy way to add custom attributes to file (via lab metadata extension) #178
  • A frontend UX for adding experiment-specific metadata to the NWBFile level, and a Flask endpoint that uses LabMetadata to achieve it. Unsure how to locally bundle/pack the namespace without creating a full extension
• [Icephys Support] Icephys Formats #182
• [Post-v1.0] Generic file type to Neurodata Type mapper  #183
  • A way to read a data array from any 'generic' source (binary, TIFF, HDF5, Zarr, xarray, npy, etc.) and choose which neurodata type (and field) to map it onto
• [Post-v1.0] Custom data interfaces as plugins #373
  • Hard technological problem; would require dev mode almost certainly; would also require a global registration process for DataInterface classes on NeuroConv side, similar to NWB Inspector checks
• Expose TimeIntervals Interfaces (trials, epochs) #538
• [Feature]: Upload progress bar #650
  • Hard to implement since DANDI doesn't use TQDM (they have an in-house project used only by them), also because the upload API process is very messy to track iterative progress of, especially over multiple processes
• [Feature]: Release support for NVT #751
  • Needs to be thoroughly tested (with regards to metadata)
• Add NeuralynxSortingInterface #461
  • Requires a fix on NeuroConv side for how stubbing of spike times is performed