Open amoeba opened 3 years ago
Example
From @mpsaloha:
IIRC, that was an acronym designed to indicate that the term was specific to our work with the MsTMIP project with Deborah Huntzinger. Chris Jones might remember?
Also from @mpsaloha:
ah-- I just recalled: MOV== “MsTMIP Output Variable” (pretty sure)
So I think we have an answer to the main question in this thread. I think there are two very related things to touch on.
First, @laijasmine 's initial comment that started this:
For that particular example there is a similar term: Depth of Thaw to the example
Thaw Depth MOV
might be confusing when we allow researchers to annotate their own attributes. It would be helpful to explain it
The issue here is that picking the "best" term for this is hard because we essentially have two terms that a scientist could get confused over:
Second, I think we agree that there are some inconsistencies across the ontology and that addressing them would be good improvements for a future release. Things like:
Active_Layer_Thickness_MOV
vs. Depth of Thaw
). See above.mass_density_MeasurementType
vs Air Pressure
, both are measurement types)None of the above changes are term deprecations, for which there's some standard guidance (see geneontology, OBO Foundry), but are either changes to term labels or class relationships.
owl:deprecated
. I don't know if this solves the confusion @laijasmine mentioned above because I don't know how user interfaces might behave when we mix deprecated and non-deprecated labels.Ultimately, I think a good bit of housekeeping is in order. We don't have the cycles right now but I thought I'd write this all up for if/when we do.
We already have some related issues:
I've seen these before and this question came up yesterday. A number of terms have the string "MOV" appended to their names. This looks like an error but maybe not?