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The ICAT server offering both SOAP and "RESTlike" interfaces to a metadata catalog.
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Add InstrumentTechnique #253

Open agbeltran opened 3 years ago

agbeltran commented 3 years ago

In issue https://github.com/icatproject/icat.server/issues/230 about adding the Technique class and the DatasetTechnique class, there was also a discussion about adding InstrumentTechnique class. In the ICAT collaboration meeting on 10th August 2021, it was decided to create a different issue to track this separate discussion.

It is noted that while the Instrument class contains a type attribute that some facilities use to record the techniques relevant to the instrument, not all facilities use type in this way: https://repo.icatproject.org/site/icat/server/4.11.1/schema.html#Instrument

For that reason, InstrumentTechnique would not replace the type attribute.

Considerations around overlaps between InstrumentTechnique and DatasetTechnique need to be analysed.