## TreeView

The file content is initially displayed in a TreeView. The items in the Tree have symbols that refelct the type of item. 
Using the dropdown menu above the TreeView allows to to change the tree layout.

### Symbols

![alt text](../icons/nix_block_1d.png "Blocks")

**Blocks** Are the top-level grouping items in a nix file. In many cases they represent something like an experimental session.

![alt text](../icons/nix_data_array.png "DataArrays")

**DataArray**: The core entity for storing n-dimensional data. All entries are of the same data type. For each of the *n* dimensions there must be a *Dimension* descriptor.

![alt text](../icons/nix_dimension.png "DataArrays")

**Dimension**: describes one dimension of the stored data. There are three types of dimensions. *SampledDimension* for data that is sampled in regular intervals (e.g. time), *SetDimension* for dimensions that do not have a natural order but represent categories, and *RangeDimension* for data that is sampled in irregular intervals.

![alt text](../icons/nix_data_frame.png "DataFrames")

**DataFrame**: a tabular structure for storing data. All entries along a column have the same data type. Each column has an header holding the column's name and dtype.

![alt text](../icons/nix_tag.png "Tag")

**Tag/MultiTag**: Entities that can tag regions in **DataArrays** to give these regions a specific meaning. For example, the time interval in which a stimulus was applied, or a region of interest in the data. The region is defined by the tag's position and extent. A tag can tag multiple DataArrays and may contain several Features.

![alt text](../icons/nix_feature.png "Feature")

**Feature**: entities are children of a Tag and are used to provide additional features of the tagged segments or regions. 
There are three types of features, *tagged* (position and extent have to be applied to the feature's data), *untagged* (position and extent do not apply), and *indexed* (for each tagged region there is an entry in the 1st dimension of the feature's data that matches).

![alt text](../icons/nix_group.png "Group")

**Group**: Simple grouing elements for grouping within a Block.

![alt text](../icons/nix_source.png "Source")

**Source**: used to provide information about the origin of the data. Sources can create a tree-like structure.

![alt text](../icons/nix_section.png "Section")

**Section**: Grouping element within the metadata tree. Sections build a tree and may contain Properties that carry the actual metadata. Most other entities can link to a section which then holds the metadata about the respective entity.

![alt text](../icons/nix_property.png "Property")

**Property**: An extended key-value pair for storing metadata.