Modify textual definition for ‘residual clinical biospecimen’ (ICO:0000429)

[lizumberfield]

The current definition for ‘residual clinical biospecimen’ (ICO:0000429) is : A material entity, collected during some health care process, that bears both a specimen role and an excess material role following some act of artifact modification.

The ‘act of modification’ in the definition sounds like we are referencing the term ‘ActOfArtifactModification’ in the Common Core ontologies defined as: _An Act of Artifact Processing in which an existing Artifact is acted upon in a manner that changes, adds, or removes one or more of its Qualities, Dispositions, or Functions. However, I do not believe that was our intention.

Based on discussion with @CooperStansbury, please change the definition to: A material entity, collected during some health care process, that bears both a specimen role and an excess material role.
This change removes mention of 'artifact' and we believe the first part of the definition is sufficient.

Elizabeth Umberfield
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5029-1158

[fjmanion]

I concur with Liz on this point. A residual clinical specimen would not seem to require /an act of artifact modification/ to me. -- Frank

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On 8/11/21 2:19 PM, Elizabeth (Liz) Umberfield wrote: The current definition for ‘residual clinical biospecimen’ (ICO:0000429) is : /A material entity, collected during some health care process, that bears both a specimen role and an excess material role following some act of artifact modification./ The ‘act of modification’ in the definition sounds like we are referencing the term ‘ActOfArtifactModification’ in the Common Core ontologies defined as: _/An Act of Artifact Processing in which an existing Artifact is acted upon in a manner that changes, adds, or removes one or more of its Qualities, Dispositions, or Functions/. However, I do not believe that was our intention. Based on discussion with @CooperStansbury <https://github.com/CooperStansbury>, please change the definition to: /A material entity, collected during some health care process, that bears both a specimen role and an excess material role./ This change removes mention of 'artifact' and we believe the first part of the definition is sufficient. Elizabeth Umberfield https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5029-1158 <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5029-1158> — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#32>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAI2EGSTWBMOCGUHDFQFATLT4K5LXANCNFSM5B7E23QA>. Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS <https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1477376905?ct=notification-email&mt=8&pt=524675> or Android <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.android&utm_campaign=notification-email>.

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