eturn-icon">&#x2192;</span> <span class="sig-return-typehint"><a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#dict" title="(in Python v3.11)"><span class="pre">dict</span></a></span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#iprPy.calculation.diatom_scan.DiatomScan.DiatomScan.metadata" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Generates a dict of simple metadata values associated with the record.
Useful for quickly comparing records and for building pandas.DataFram