From: Levels and building blocks—toward a domain granularity framework for the life sciences
Level-Specific Granularity Perspective | Granulation Criterion | Granularity Type | Granulation Relation | # Levels | ||
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Region-Based Building Block Cluster Granularity Perspective | ‘fiat [building block] part’ ‘fiat [building block] part’ ‘group of fiat [building block] level entities’ ‘fiat [building block]cluster’ | properPartOf properPartOf hasProperPart hasProperPart | ‘group of fiat [building block] level entities’ OR ‘fiat [building block] cluster’; ‘fiat [building block] part’ OR ‘fiat [building block] part’ | nrG | proper parthood | 2 |
Region-Based Building Block Part Granularity Perspective | ‘fiat [building block] part’ ‘[building block]’ | properPartOf hasProperPart | ‘[building block]’; ‘fiat [building block] part’ | nrG | proper parthood | 2 |
Region-Based Fiat Building Block Aggregate Granularity Perspective | ‘[building block]’ ‘[building block]’ ‘fiat [building block] cluster’ ‘scattered fiat [building block] entity’ | properPartOf properPartOf hasProperPart hasProperPart | ‘fiat [building block] cluster’ OR ‘scattered fiat [building block] entity’; ‘[building block]’ OR ‘[building block]’ | nrG | proper parthood | 2 |
Region-Based Fiat Building Block Part Granularity Perspective | ‘fiat [building block] part’ ‘fiat [building block] part’ | properPartOf hasProperPart | ‘fiat [building block] part’; ‘fiat [building block] part’ | nrG | proper parthood | ∞ |
Region-Based Fiat Building Block Cluster Granularity Perspective | ‘fiat [building block] cluster’ ‘fiat [building block] cluster’ | properPartOf hasProperPart | ‘fiat [building block] cluster’; ‘fiat [building block] cluster’ | nrG | proper parthood | ∞ |
Region-Based Group of Building Block Level Objects Granularity Perspective | ‘group of [building block] level objects’ ‘group of [building block] level objects’ | properPartOf hasProperPart | ‘group of [building block] level objects’; ‘group of [building block] level objects’ | nrG | proper parthood | many |
Region-Based Group of Fiat Building Block Level Entities Granularity Perspective | ‘group of fiat [building block] level entities’ ‘group of fiat [building block] level entities’ | properPartOf hasProperPart | ‘group of fiat [building block] level entities’; ‘group of fiat [building block] level entities’ | nrG | proper parthood | ∞ |