Discussion

Name

Discussion

Description

A thread-like record of an open question, controversy, curation todo, emerging hypothesis, knowledge gap, or interpretation debate attached to a record or one of its sub-objects. Captures the discourse / knowledge-gap layer of curation. External thread links (GitHub issues, forum posts) are cited via the `evidence` block, not a separate slot.

From schema

https://w3id.org/kg-microbe/mech-shared

Attributes

Discussion id

Name: discussion_id
Description: Stable local identifier for this discussion thread.
From schema: https://w3id.org/kg-microbe/mech-shared
Required: True

Prompt

Name: prompt
Description: The open question, gap statement, or todo, in one or two sentences.
From schema: https://w3id.org/kg-microbe/mech-shared
Required: True

Kind

Name: kind
From schema: https://w3id.org/kg-microbe/mech-shared
Range: DiscussionKindEnum

Status

Name: status
From schema: https://w3id.org/kg-microbe/mech-shared
Range: DiscussionStatusEnum

Attaches to

Name: attaches_to
Description: Hash-anchor pointers into the sections/nodes this discussion concerns: `<section>#<anchor>`, e.g. `causal_graphs#edge_x`, `composition#ingredient_y`, `ecological_interactions#z`, `ontology_mapping#m`. Free-form so each Mech can anchor into its own record structure.
From schema: https://w3id.org/kg-microbe/mech-shared
Multivalued: True

Rationale

Name: rationale
Description: Why this matters / what resolving it would change.
From schema: https://w3id.org/kg-microbe/mech-shared

Proposed experiments

Name: proposed_experiments
Description: Optional sketches of how the gap could be resolved.
From schema: https://w3id.org/kg-microbe/mech-shared
Range: ProposedExperiment
Multivalued: True
Inlined as list: True

Evidence

Name: evidence
Description: Supporting / contextual citations.
From schema: https://w3id.org/kg-microbe/mech-shared
Range: SupportingReference
Multivalued: True
Inlined as list: True

Posed by

Name: posed_by
Description: Curator or agent that raised the discussion.
From schema: https://w3id.org/kg-microbe/mech-shared

Posed date

Name: posed_date
From schema: https://w3id.org/kg-microbe/mech-shared
Range: date

Resolved date

Name: resolved_date
From schema: https://w3id.org/kg-microbe/mech-shared
Range: date

Resolution note

Name: resolution_note
Description: How it was resolved (when status is RESOLVED).
From schema: https://w3id.org/kg-microbe/mech-shared

Notes

Name: notes
From schema: https://w3id.org/kg-microbe/mech-shared