{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/172","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/172/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/172/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/172/events","html_url":"https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/172","id":98477944,"number":172,"title":"Data Format Specficaition","user":{"login":"zhengj2007","id":6249284,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6249284?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007","html_url":"https://github.com/zhengj2007","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/labels/imported","name":"imported","color":"FFFFFF"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":7,"created_at":"2015-07-31T21:52:51Z","updated_at":"2015-07-31T21:53:22Z","closed_at":null,"body":"_From [james.ma...@gmail.com](https://code.google.com/u/105349588160612283402/) on July 04, 2014 08:21:07_\n\nThe current definition is:\r\nA data format specification is the information content borne by the document published defining the specification. Example: The ISO document specifying what encompasses an XML document; The instructions in a XSD file.\r\n\r\nI would like to have this changed to something more understandable to none ontologists. I'm an ontologist and I struggle to understand this English. I propose:\r\n\r\nThe syntax by which data is specified which renders it valid for a given format.\n\n_Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/detail?id=172_"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/comments/126821938","html_url":"https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/172#issuecomment-126821938","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/172","id":126821938,"user":{"login":"zhengj2007","id":6249284,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6249284?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007","html_url":"https://github.com/zhengj2007","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-07-31T21:53:22Z","updated_at":"2015-07-31T21:53:22Z","body":"_From [wddun...@gmail.com](https://code.google.com/u/106653010360062214642/) on July 08, 2014 10:53:21_\n\nHow is my suggestion for a relation any \"loser\" than the relation 'is about'? Just as a particular ICE can be about multiple entities, so too can a give file conform to multiple formats. \r\n\r\nMoreover, this notion of conformance/compliance/specification (or however you wish to phrase it) is implicit in our understanding of format specifications to begin with. Something counts as an XML file b/c it has a certain agreed upon grammatical structure. I'm just trying to make the implicit explicit."}}