Open Peyman-N opened 1 month ago
follow up question: I assume that the software version or even software could be changed using the same scanner / device (I know that his would be also true for blackrock acquisition systems for example).
What about the firmware and firmware version ?
We have the instrument (physical object), following some hardware specification, and running some firmware (code that is essential to the activity of the instrument and is loaded inside the instrument), and software (code running of the computer controlling the instrument and usually doing some data preprocessing.
In theory, each one can be versioned and get a PID (instrument /physical object, hardware type, firmware, software)
@jcolomb this is a good point. so far I would have categorized firmware as software to be honest (just not running on a users computer but directly as part of the hardware). we will discuss if a distinction in schema is required or if software just needs a specification (on where it can be run which I think we partially do already)
During the review of the neuroimaging extension, MRIScannerUsage, we encountered a problem: most of the scanners have software associated with them. I created this issue to follow up on that discussion.
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