EImage Table / Module (v1.4)

[spficklin]

This issue imported from the Chado v1.4 requested changes google doc:

Should this eimage table be pulled out into a new ‘image’ module with appropriate linking tables?

Scott says: I’m not sure what you’re suggesting: keeping eimage, but creating a series of “eimiage_” linking tables?  Probably not a bad idea.

Stephen says (1/14/15):  Yep, that works, and perhaps calling that collection of tables the EImage or Image module?  It would be nice to rename the eimage table as just image but that’s probably a no-go.  Or we can leave the eimage table as part of the expression module as it was intended and create a new Image module with an image table and image_ tables.

Bob MacCullum says (3/10/2015): an Image module would be great

Stephen says (4/24/2015). We are working on a file module for Tripal and will propose a set of tables that can associate any type of file (including images) with any data type in Chado.