has_specified_input
has_specified_output
achieves_planned_objective
material entity
planned process
specimen collection process
Philly2013: A specimen collection can have as part a material entity acquisition, such as ordering from a bank. The distinction is that specimen collection necessarily involves the creation of a specimen role. However ordering cell lines cells from ATCC for use in an investigation is NOT a specimen collection, because the cell lines already have a specimen role.
A planned process with the objective of collecting a specimen.
5/31/2012: This process is not necessarily an acquisition, as specimens may be collected from materials already in posession
specimen collection
Philly2013: The specimen_role for the specimen is created during the specimen collection process.
label changed to 'specimen collection process' on 10/27/2014, details see tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/p/obi/obi-terms/716/
Bjoern Peters
Note: definition is in specimen creation objective which is defined as an objective to obtain and store a material entity for potential use as an input during an investigation.
drawing blood from a patient for analysis, collecting a piece of a plant for depositing in a herbarium, buying meat from a butcher in order to measure its protein content in an investigation
specimen collection process
6/9/09: used at workshop
specimen collection objective
specimen
ready for release