[Mged-mage] Identifying Producer of MAGE file contents

[Miller, M. (Rosetta) <Michael_Miller@Rosettabio.com>]

Hi All,

For software that is going to import MAGE files, I think it's going to be
important that the software can know from the file itself how it was
produced, so it can know what mappings were used.  For instance, some
feature extraction software will have different SpecializedQuantitationTypes
that might be of interest to the application.  It may be more general, such
as the Affymetrix Exporter.  So that software can know up front what's
coming, I'd like to suggest the following convention be used,

<MAGE-ML identifier="{IDENTIFIER PREFIX}:sample_profile">
    <Descriptions_assnlist>
      <!-- Specifies who/what defined mappings used for the file -->
      <Description text="Production and Mapping Information" URI="{where
documentation of mapping located}">
        <Annotations_assnlist>
          <OntologyEntry category="Producer" value="Acme Feature Extraction"
/>
          <OntologyEntry category="Version" value="1.2" />
        </Annotations_assnlist>
      </Description>
    
    </Descriptions_assnlist>
  
  <AuditTrail_assnlist>
    <!-- Specifies who created the file and when -->
    <Audit date="yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss.SSSSSS" action="creation">
      <Performer_assnref>
        <!-- Could be Organization_ref -->
        <Person_ref identifier = "{IDENTIFIER PREFIX}:Doe, John" />
      </Performer_assnref>
    </Audit>
  </AuditTrail_assnlist>

  <!-- rest of file -->
</MAGE-ML>
Comments, additions, subtractions?

thanks,
Michael

Michael Miller
Senior Application Developer
Rosetta Biosoftware
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www.rosettabio.com