Instructions for submitting Laboratory Digital Imaging Project (LDIP)
Common Data Elements (CDEs)

- Jules J. Berman, May 8, 2006


CDEs will only be accepted as classes or properties in the following plain-text format, 
which is designed to support automatic transformation into an RDF schema:

The format for classes is:

Class Label (in standard XML tag format, uppercase 1st letter):
Registration Authority: Association for Pathology Informatics
Cardinality: (default is "/[0-9]+/"):
Comment (must include detailed definition):
subClassOf:
Contributor (your consistent first-name last-name):
Date of your contribution (/[\d]{2}\-[\d{2}]\-[\d]{4}]/):

The format for properties is:

Property Label (in standard XML tag format, lowercase 1st letter):
Registration Authority: Association for Pathology Informatics
Cardinality (default is "/[0-9]+/"):
Datatype (can be "literal", a list or a regex; default is "literal"):
Comment (must include detailed definition):
Domain (comma-delimited if multiple):
Range (default is "literal"):
Contributor (your consistent first-name last-name):
Date of your contribution (/[\d]{2}\-[\d{2}]\-[\d]{4}/):

When creating your CDEs, please remember:

If something has instances of itself or if it is a subclass of a class, 
it must be a class.

If something has a specific datatype that includes numerics, it must be a property.

If you can't decide whether something is a class or a property, please submit it as a 
class and we'll fix it later if you're wrong.  You can look at Bill Moore's preliminary 
CDEs for initial guidance.

The Comment entry must contain a detailed definition of the CDE. Don't be afraid to use 
the Comment entry to indicate problems or special cirumstances (like the name of another 
specification or ontology from which the element was derived).

Feel free to add entry items beyond those minimal entry items above. Each new entry item 
should appear on a new line, starting with the entry item descriptor followed by a colon 
followed by the item's value.