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A community-driven ontology for the representation of environments
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Classifying the classifiers - soil-order #1376

Open dr-shorthair opened 2 years ago

dr-shorthair commented 2 years ago

In the soil-classification game, they have the notion of 'soil order' and 'sub-order'. Classifiers like anthrosol, arenosol etc, are formally classed as 'orders', and each particular system of orders should provide an exhaustive classification of all soils. But in ENVO they are mixed together with with all sorts of other immediate sub-classes of soil. I can't find a way to just see the 'orders'.

Is there an obvious way to tag them this way, so they can be seen together?

I guess this requires that a new (meta-)class SoilOrder be defined? Is there an existing ENVO or OBO pattern for these kinds of organizational concepts?

dr-shorthair commented 2 years ago

related to #1375 and #825