"Graph data", "Plot" and "Image"

[joncison]

Graph data is required by DSEO (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ix1eKplAX9KHbBsA6uU7G95_7lD5Q9jGfEL_LV7dYAQ/edit#gid=1477753083) and we have Graph format (http://edamontology.org/format_3617) so I propose it's added: do you agree?

And what to do about Plot (http://edamontology.org/data_2884), this is just a type of Image (http://edamontology.org/data_2968) right?

[veitveit]

If considered as Data, then Graph data could be handled by Pathway or Network (at least broadly).

Image and Plot are quite tricky. An Image could also be a photograph (e.g. of a cell through the microscope). A Plot is a mostly computer-generated figure. So being a child of Image should be OK unless there are other abstract formats of Plot that do not necessary display on the screen or paper. If we consider computational instructions to plot an image (e.g. in Latex) an Image, then this should be fine?

[joncison]

I think Plot is a thing that's been rendered (on screen, paper, papyrus scroll etc.).

An Image I don't think can be Computational instructions.

To be more practical / usable, I lean towards broadening the Plot definition to say it can cover plotting instructions - in which case it stays where it is. The alternative would be to say that it is purely an image / figure (in which case it could be moved under Image.

[veitveit]

+1