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diff --git a/features/data-structures.md b/features/data-structures.md index 8c9f820..380a775 100644 --- a/features/data-structures.md +++ b/features/data-structures.md @@ -152,3 +152,40 @@ groups). However, it would be cool to compare differences in gene expression in the liver of BXD mice, HXD rats, and GTEx humans as a function of sex and age. + +## RDF and relationship databases + +Naming is hard. Properties might have been more descriptive than attributes. But is +a publication or a cage name a property or attribute for individual +mouse? Not really. RDFS has vocabulary for such + +=> https://www.sti-innsbruck.at/sites/default/files/courses/fileadmin/documents/semweb13-14/SW-Lecture7.pdf + +I think, rather than bringing it in its one term we should be using relationships. So a publication would be a property of trait and therefore of group. + +* publication belongs to trait +* individual partOf trait + +That way publications are connected to individual mouse. + +* trait belongs to group + +That way publications are connected to group + +That also makes the ownership path clear. Publications are handled at the trait level, not at the group level. This makes the discussion around how attributes are handled *much* clearer. Meanwhile + +* individual partOf epoch +* status partOf individual + +Status is also arbitrary. Here status might be individualLocation or +something more descriptive. I.e. + +* individual hasLocation location + +But it is also clear that the 'status' attribute is handled at the individual level and not at the group level. Maybe I get this wrong, but then we can decide at what level 'status' belongs for editing. Right? + +Anyway, you can see I am talking relationships that are descriptive and can be parsed by AI. Also this brings out where today's attributes belong. + +Anything enumerable can be used as a covariate, that includes location, handler etc. + +The RRID is a strain level property that we display as if it is an individual level property. |