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Slot: methods

Identifies how the observation was made. Recommended values are in ObservationMethodEnum; other values are permitted (OSCAL allow-other=“yes”).

URI: oscal:methods

Applicable Classes

Section titled “Applicable Classes”
Name Description Modifies Slot
Observation Describes an individual observation yes

Properties

Section titled “Properties”

Type and Range

Section titled “Type and Range”
Property Value
Range String or 
ObservationMethodEnum
Domain Of Observation

Cardinality and Requirements

Section titled “Cardinality and Requirements”
Property Value
Multivalued Yes
Expressions & Logic

Any Of

Section titled “Any Of”

Value must satisfy at least one of:

  • AnonymousSlotExpression({‘range’: ‘ObservationMethodEnum’})
  • AnonymousSlotExpression({‘range’: ‘string’})

Identifier and Mapping Information

Section titled “Identifier and Mapping Information”

Schema Source

Section titled “Schema Source”

Mappings

Section titled “Mappings”
Mapping Type Mapped Value
self oscal:methods
native oscal:methods

LinkML Source

Section titled “LinkML Source”
name: methods
description: Identifies how the observation was made. Recommended values are in ObservationMethodEnum;
  other values are permitted (OSCAL allow-other="yes").
from_schema: https://w3id.org/lmodel/oscal
rank: 1000
domain_of:
- Observation
range: string
multivalued: true
any_of:
- range: ObservationMethodEnum
- range: string