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DP-43

Group Nodes (Time Branch, Activity, Paradata)

Core Language v1.5 StratiGraph ↗ yEd paletteEMtoolss3Dgraphys3D config (rules)

Description

Three group node types shipped in 1.5, complementing the generic Container Nodes effort (DP-36): (1) Time Branch Group Node with green background for alternative temporal sequences, letting authors bundle mutually exclusive reconstructive hypotheses under a single temporal branch. (2) Activity Group Node (ActivityNodeGroup) that clusters related activities and feeds the Activity Manager panel: the Stratigraphy Manager’s ‘By Activity’ filter is driven by this group. (3) Paradata Group Node connected to the stratigraphic node whose properties are being validated, used by the Paradata Manager and by the Heriverse exporter to bundle ParaData (RMDoc) objects per source. All three node types are formalized in the yEd palette, parsed by the GraphML importer, and round-tripped correctly by the GraphML writer.

Status

Incorporated

Target EM Version

1.5

Incorporated in

EM v1.5

Impacts

yEd paletteEMtoolss3Dgraphys3D config (rules)

Components

  • Time Branch group node (done)
  • Activity group node (done)
  • Paradata group node (done)
  • yEd palette entries (done)
  • Activity Manager integration (done)
  • Paradata Manager integration (done)
  • Heriverse exporter ParaData bundling (done)

Key Study

Sarmizegetusa

Notes

Complements DP-36 (Container Nodes). All three group types operational across core, s3Dgraphy and EMtools.