software

[Frank Gibson]

Dear IAO,

The OBI instrument branch was wondering if the class _software_ is
included in the IAO, and if so would the realizes relation be suitable
to say that a device, runs software?

device realizes software
computer realizes operating_system

Cheers

Frank (on behalf of the instrument branch)

[Alan Ruttenberg]

Could you give me some more specific examples of usage?
-Alan

[Frank Gibson]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Alan Ruttenberg
<alanrut...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Could you give me some more specific examples of usage?
> -Alan

So the Voyage De-STR is a mass spectrometer which has software called
Data Explorer ™ software for flexible acquisition and data processing.
The software can be upgrade, while the instrument remains the same, as
per computers and operating systems.

http://tinyurl.com/6yc7gy

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Frank Gibson <fgi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear IAO,
>>
>> The OBI instrument branch was wondering if the class _software_ is
>> included in the IAO, and if so would the realizes relation be suitable
>> to say that a device, runs software?
>>
>> device realizes software
>> computer realizes operating_system
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Frank (on behalf of the instrument branch)
>>
>> >
>>
>
> >
>

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[Alan Ruttenberg]

Ok. Software can be an ambiguous term. In this case you are referring
to an information entity that inheres in the instrument once the
software is installed. You won't go too wrong by creating an instance
of Software (http://purl.obofoundry.org/obo/IAO_0000010) and saying
that any instance of Voyage De-STR that has that software installed
is bearer of that instance. If you wish you can say that the software
is_about the data acquisition and processing functions of the
instrument.

There are some subtleties involving versions, source code, alternative
platforms, etc that need to be worked out, but as I said, if you do
the above I think that any changes, should there be any, will be
minor.

-Alan

[Alan Ruttenberg]

Something I don't think we need to say, but which I believe to be true
is that the installed software is a specifically dependent entity that
is the concretization of the generically dependent software instance
defined below.

Barry can correct me if I have this wrong.

-Alan

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Alan Ruttenberg

[Frank Gibson]

bounced, trying again to
Forwarding to obi-instrument branch

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:57 PM, frank gibson <Frank....@ncl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Forwarding to obi-instrument branch
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Alan Ruttenberg

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