Output Experiment Relationships

[rupert]

A number of experiment relationships are currently encoded in the experimentID in the Experiment documents that are used as input to the Questionnaire. These relationships should be captured using the genealogy class in the CIM output from the Questionnaire. To do this we need to do the following

1: (Charlotte) Make all experimentID's have a consistent format in the experiment documents and the live questionnaire

2: (Charlotte) Define the format and it's meaning e.g. 1.1-E is an experiment that relates to Experiment 1.1 and the relationship (E). We also need relationship names defined to add to the CIM vocab i.e.

-E hasAdditionalMembersTo

-I modifiedInputMethodOf

-S shorterVersionOf

-L longerVersionOf

3: (Allyn) Add any new CIM vocab when it is agreed

4: (Rupert) output the relationship information in the questionnaire CIM output when the format is agreed

[charlotte]

As of revision r3815 all experiment identifiers use the hyphenated format to denote a relationship. This format is also used by all experiments in the questionnaire database.

Note that the following experiment identifiers have "letter" extensions. 6.2a, 6.2b 6.4a, 6.4b 6.7a, 6.7b, 6.7c These have no meaning in and of themselves, their purpose is simply to label the experiment.

[charlotte]

Typo: the revision number is in fact r2815 . 

[charlotte]

These are the relationships I would like us to use

-E additionalMembersOf

-I modifiedInputMethodOf

-S shorterVersionOf

-L extensionOf

Note that the -L indicates that the time period begins from where the related experiment ends.  If this is clear then the ticket can be passed to Allyn.

[rupert]

Thanks Charlotte, that's exactly what I needed.

Allyn, could you add the above relationships to the CIM genealogy class and then pass the ticket onto me.

Cheers

-- Rupert

[rupert]

Hi Allyn, I've added support for the output of experiment relationships in the translator code so you can close the ticket when you update the enumerations in the CIM genealogy class. Thanks Rupert.

[allyn]

I have added these relationship types to the enumeration ExperimentRelationships as of r2832. Can I just check, Charlotte, did you mean to write "additionalMembersOf" or "additionalMemberOf"? You wrote (and I added) the former, but a genealogical relationship can only point to one target, so a plural word here doesn't really make sense.

[charlotte]

hmmm,  yes I see your point.  The -E extension describes an experiment which adds new ensemble members to an existing experiment. Perhaps a better description would be:

-E increaseEnsembleOf

[allyn]

"additionalMembersOf" has been changed to "increaseEnsembleOf" as of r2846.

[rupert]

For the record, I now output "increaseEnsembleOf" from the q2cim translator