PMDco v3.0.0-rc1

[joergwa]

PMDco – Release Notes

✨ Highlights

This release delivers substantial improvements to modeling capabilities, documentation, and ontology quality. It introduces important new classes and patterns for representing material structures and properties, revises several core modeling constructs, and improves automation and validation features.

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🧩 Ontology Enhancements

Reworked and Expanded Modeling Patterns

• Existing example patterns and shapes have been reworked and improved for clarity and consistency.
• New example patterns and shapes have been added, expanding the ontology’s modeling guidance and vocabulary.

Introduction of Temporally Qualified Continuants (TQCs)

• The ontology now supports temporally qualified continuants, enabling precise modeling of changes in material properties over time.
• This addition offers a principled way to represent dynamic material behaviors without compromising ontological rigor.

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🔧 Automation & Validation

Improved Automation

• Automation pipelines—particularly those involved in shape validation—have been improved for reliability and coverage.

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📘 Documentation Improvements

• Documentation has been extensively improved to support beginners and new adopters.
• A migration guide has been added/refined to help users transition from previous versions smoothly.

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🔄 Alignment and Interoperability

Replacement of Internal Classes with OBO Equivalents

• Several PMDco classes and properties have been replaced with OBO Foundry equivalents to increase interoperability and reuse across the wider ontology ecosystem.

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🆕 New & Updated Ontological Content

Key New Classes

This release introduces several important domain classes, including:

• Fraction Value Specification
• Alloy
• Thickness
• Diameter
• Metallic Grain Structures
• Chemical Composition and related classes
• Phase and related phase-structure concepts
• Material Combination
• …and many additional supporting classes

Important New Properties

• specified by value
• has relational quality

Important Deleted Properties

• consists of
• intensive bearer of
• integral bearer of

Pull Requests:

• 189 update chemical composition modelling by @cmllezr in 189 update chemical composition modelling #191
• 183 refine the taxonomy of phase by @webhart in 183 refine the taxonomy of phase #209
• improved definitions by @thnlrd in arestotelian definitions #207
• 208 manufacturing process is defined as a planned process by @joergwa in 208 manufacturing process is defined as a planned process #213
• fix reasoner inconsistencies in the chemical composition pattern by @cmllezr in fix reasoner inconsistencies in the chemical composition pattern  #214
• removed logistics module by @joergwa in removed logistics module #217
• added pattern for process sequence with tqc and changing qualities by @joergwa in added pattern for process sequence with tqc and changing qualities #220
• added missing value to pattern for. measurement by @joergwa in added missing value  #223
• updated failing shape-data and docs by @joergwa in updated failing shape-data and docs #224
• 175 revise and improve pattern 5 realizable entities qualities by @cmllezr in 175 revise and improve pattern 5 realizable entities qualities #225
• Fixed most validation errors by @cmllezr in Fixed most validation errors #229
• 178 revise and improve pattern 8 categorical value specification by @cmllezr in 178 revise and improve pattern 8 categorical value specification #218
• 176 revise and improve pattern 6 scalar measurement by @cmllezr in 176 revise and improve pattern 6 scalar measurement #228
• Fixing validation errors on some behavioral properties by @cmllezr in Fixing validation errors on some behavioral properties #232
• added further statements to validate measurement datum shape by @cmllezr in added further statements to validate measurement datum shape #234
• 235 delete consists of from the ontology by @joergwa in 235 delete consists of from the ontology #236

Full Changelog: v3.0.0-alpha4...v3.0.0-rc1

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