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-# Default ignored files
-/shelf/
-/workspace.xml
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-NFDI4Chem_MIChI
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-<module type="PYTHON_MODULE" version="4">
-  <component name="NewModuleRootManager">
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-    <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
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-  <component name="PyDocumentationSettings">
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-    <option name="myDocStringFormat" value="Plain" />
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diff --git a/.idea/inspectionProfiles/Project_Default.xml b/.idea/inspectionProfiles/Project_Default.xml
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-<component name="InspectionProjectProfileManager">
-  <profile version="1.0">
-    <option name="myName" value="Project Default" />
-    <inspection_tool class="PyUnresolvedReferencesInspection" enabled="true" level="WARNING" enabled_by_default="true">
-      <option name="ignoredIdentifiers">
-        <list>
-          <option value="definedtermset_profile.datamodel.*" />
-        </list>
-      </option>
-    </inspection_tool>
-  </profile>
-</component>
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-<component name="InspectionProjectProfileManager">
-  <settings>
-    <option name="USE_PROJECT_PROFILE" value="false" />
-    <version value="1.0" />
-  </settings>
-</component>
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diff --git a/.idea/jsonCatalog.xml b/.idea/jsonCatalog.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project version="4">
-  <component name="JsonSchemaCatalogProjectConfiguration">
-    <preferRemoteSchemas>true</preferRemoteSchemas>
-  </component>
-</project>
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project version="4">
-  <component name="JsonSchemaMappingsProjectConfiguration">
-    <state>
-      <map>
-        <entry key="LinkML">
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-            <SchemaInfo>
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-              <option name="name" value="LinkML" />
-              <option name="relativePathToSchema" value="https://w3id.org/linkml/meta.schema.json " />
-              <option name="schemaVersion" value="JSON Schema version 7" />
-              <option name="patterns">
-                <list>
-                  <Item>
-                    <option name="path" value="src/nfdi4chem_michi/schema/nfdi4chem_michi.yaml" />
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-                </list>
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-  </component>
-</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/misc.xml b/.idea/misc.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project version="4">
-  <component name="Black">
-    <option name="sdkName" value="Poetry (NFDI4Chem MIChI)" />
-  </component>
-  <component name="ProjectRootManager" version="2" project-jdk-name="Poetry (NFDI4Chem MIChI)" project-jdk-type="Python SDK" />
-</project>
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project version="4">
-  <component name="ProjectModuleManager">
-    <modules>
-      <module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/.idea/NFDI4Chem MIChI.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_DIR$/.idea/NFDI4Chem MIChI.iml" />
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-  </component>
-</project>
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project version="4">
-  <component name="VcsDirectoryMappings">
-    <mapping directory="" vcs="Git" />
-  </component>
-</project>
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