new term request - source of drinking water

zhengj2007 commented 9 years ago

Following are controlled vocabulary used in annotation of source of drinking water in PRISM project (http://www.muucsf.org/projects/prism.html)

piped into yard/compound: water from piped into yard/compound open well in yard/compound: open well water in yard/compound open public well: open public well water protected well in yard/compound: protected well water in yard/compound protected public well: protected public well water protected spring: protected spring water unprotected spring: unprotected spring water river/stream: river water dam: dam water rainwater: rainwater water truck: water from water truck bottled water: bottled water

zhengj2007 commented 9 years ago

one more term in this category: pipe into dwelling

pbuttigieg commented 9 years ago

We have water well ENVO_01000002, and I've added:

freshwater spring ENVO_01000598
river water ENVO_01000599 (note this does not make any assertions as to whether this water is fresh or potable!)
'rainwater' ENVO_01000600 (asserted that this is freshwater)
water truck ENVO_01000603 (I don't have any good relation to link this to water, however. If "water transportation" existed somewhere we could have the water truck as an agent in that process)

Concerns:

What is "dam water"? This is a weird construction. I think it's better to express that some sort of water was collected near a dam.
What do you mean by "bottled water"? I could create something like "bottle of drinking water" in the feature branch using some sort of link to drinking water ENVO_00003064 in the material branch.
Please provide definitions for "yard" and "compound" that suit your purposes.

qualities like "public", "(un)protected" should go to PATO. Once they're there, we can create cross-products.

zhengj2007 commented 9 years ago

'dam water' is not used in the annotation although listed in a list of controlled vocabulary. So, we don't need to worry it now.

It looks good to me to define 'bottled water' as 'bottle of drinking water'

I will contact PRISM group to get what 'yard/compound' means in the project.

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