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annotation using IAO:data item class #202

Open kaiiam opened 6 years ago

kaiiam commented 6 years ago

Greeting IAO development team.

We're working on some typical Earth science data files in a CSV/TSV like format. The rows are entities being observed and the columns the variables that describe them.

e.g.

sample nitrate temperature status
1 0.4 3 active
2 0.3 6 dormant
... ... ... ...

We considered using data set, but that seems to require the data be homogeneous. Is there a more permissive class? Can one be created if not?

zhengj2007 commented 6 years ago

You may consider to use 'data matrix' defined in Ontology of Biological and Clinical Statistics (OBCS) http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBCS_0000120

For more information of OBCS, you can check the site: https://github.com/obcs/obcs.

Thanks!

kaiiam commented 6 years ago

Thanks for you quick reply. Is there a class which could be used to describe rdf data?

zhengj2007 commented 6 years ago

Rdf data has not be covered in OBCS yet.

In OBI, rdf has been defined as a 'data format specification': http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000324

You may consider to use and define 'rdf data' like 'data item' has_format_specification some RDF. (Reference for data and 'data format specification' relation in: https://jbiomedsem.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/2041-1480-5-25?site=jbiomedsem.biomedcentral.com)