Class: Investigation

investigation is the process of carrying out a plan or procedure so as to discover facts or information about the object of study.

URI: sio:Investigation

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Parents

  • is_a: Procedure - A procedure is a process that attempts to achieve one or more objectives by following an established set of actions.

Children

  • Experiment - An experiment is an investigation that has the goal of verifying, falsifying, or establishing the validity of a hypothesis.
  • Study - A study is a process that realizes the steps of a study design.

Referenced by Class

Attributes

Inherited from Procedure:

  • hasCreator 0..1
    • Description: has creator is a relation between an entity and that which created it.
    • Range: Entity

  • hasAttribute 0..1

    • Description: has attribute is a relation that associates a entity with an attribute where an attribute is an intrinsic characteristic such as a quality, capability, disposition, function, or is an externally derived attribute determined from some descriptor (e.g. a quantity, position, label/identifier) either directly or indirectly through generalization of entities of the same type.

    • Range: Entity

    • satisfies 0..1

    • Description: satisfies is a relation between an entity and the specification or objective that it conforms to.

    • Range: Description

    • isRelatedTo 0..1
    • Description: A is related to B iff there is some relation between A and B.
    • Range: Entity
    • hasParticipant 0..1

    • Description: has participant is a relation that describes the participation of the object in the (processual) subject.

    • Range: Entity