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Neuroimaging Data Model (NIDM): describing neuroimaging data and provenance
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Creation of a nidm:Modality term. #434

Closed khelm closed 6 years ago

khelm commented 6 years ago

Creation of a nidm:Modality term in the NIDM-Experiment ontology would reduce the number of overall terms. It would be used as a modifier for terms like nidm:Acquisition, nidm:'Acquisition Object' and sio:'data collection device'. There would no longer be a need for specific terms in those categories e.g. ns: "Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanner" would be replaced by

nidm:<scanner ID> a sio:'data collection device' ,
   nidm:Modality nidm:'Magnetic Resonance Imaging' .
khelm commented 6 years ago

This is done, but other modalities can also be added in the future. I have added basic imaging modalities and a number of electrophysiology modalities. I have also updated the child terms of nidm:AcquisitionMethod and removed terms that were modality specific in other parts of the graph (e.g., nidm:PETDataAcquisition).