New terms for anthropocentric specimen sites

These terms are needed by our researchers to describe the context that an environmental sample was extracted from:

constructed feature > agricultural fairground: Industrial wastewater is wastewater from any industrial site and so may involve other contaminants besides urine and feces that are typical of sewage.

waste water > Industrial wastewater is wastewater from any industrial site and so may involve contaminants other than urine and fecal matter that are typical of sewage. [custom definition]

lentic water body > ? swimming pool (public or private) A swimming pool is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_pool] Synonyms: swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool

constructed feature> water intake: A water intake is a hydraulic-engineering installation for obtaining water from a source of supply (river, lake, reservoir, and so on) for purposes of hydroelectric power engineering, water supply, or irrigation. Water intake works are intended to ensure the delivery of water into a conduit (a canal, pipeline, tunnel, and so on) in specified amounts, of the proper quality, and according to a water-consumption chart. [http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Water+Intake+Works]

building> cafeteria: A cafeteria is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafeteria]

building> delicatessen: A delicatessen or deli is a retail establishment that sells a selection of unusual or foreign prepared foods. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicatessen]

parent???> food truck: A food truck is a large vehicle equipped to cook and sell food. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_truck]

building> take out restaurant: A restaurant providing prepared meals or other food items that the purchaser intends to eat elsewhere [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take-out]

building> kiosk: In the Western hemisphere and in English-speaking countries, a kiosk is also a booth with an open window on one side. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiosk]

kiosk > food kiosk: A food kiosk is a kiosk dedicated to selling food. [Custom]

building> grocery store:A grocery store is a retail store that primarily sells food. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grocery_store]

building> market: A market, or marketplace, is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_(place)]

building> specialty/ethic store: A specialty/ethnic food store is a store specializing in a particular variety of food or food of cultural or regional origin. [Custom]

building part> sink: A sink—also known by other names including sinker, washbowl, hand basin and wash basin—is a bowl-shaped plumbing fixture used for washing hands, dishwashing, and other purposes. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink]

building part> bathtub: A bathtub, bath, or tub (informal) is a large or small container for holding water in which a person or a persons pet may bathe. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub]

building part> shower: A shower is a place in which a person bathes under a spray of typically warm or hot water. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shower]

Much appreciated!

@Public-Health-Bioinformatics Working on these now - do you have an ORCID and/or a project URL we can associate with the custom definitions?

Further, the def for agricultural fairground is actually for wastewater.

Ah, about agricultural fairground, correct defn below, but perhaps we need a general and specific term:

fairground : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairground definition: Fairground most typically refers to a permanent space that hosts fairs. synonyms: Fairground, Fair Ground

agricultural fairground: a fairground dedicated to the exhibition of agricultural technology, livestock, and farm-related activity.[custom]

constructed feature > agricultural fairground: Industrial wastewater is wastewater from any industrial site and so may involve other contaminants besides urine and feces that are typical of sewage.

This is an erroneous def, it seems. Will act on https://github.com/EnvironmentOntology/envo/issues/505#issuecomment-307426761

waste water > Industrial wastewater is wastewater from any industrial site and so may involve contaminants other than urine and fecal matter that are typical of sewage. [custom definition]

Some slight modifications to the def phrasing, needs some sort of attribution ID like one or more ORCIDs.

lentic water body > ? swimming pool (public or private) A swimming pool is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_pool] Synonyms: swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool

As this refers to the structure rather than the water contained therein, it wouldn't be under lentic water body. This could go under constructed feature for now.

constructed swimming pool =def. "A construction which is designed to hold water in which humans may swim or perform other leisure activities." +broad synonym: pool +exact synonym: swimming pool +exact synonym: wading pool +exact synonym: paddling pool

We can't meaningfully add parenthetical statements like that to a class, so I've created subclasses for private and public swimming pools (the superclass will thus subsume both).

constructed feature> water intake: A water intake is a hydraulic-engineering installation for obtaining water from a source of supply (river, lake, reservoir, and so on) for purposes of hydroelectric power engineering, water supply, or irrigation. Water intake works are intended to ensure the delivery of water into a conduit (a canal, pipeline, tunnel, and so on) in specified amounts, of the proper quality, and according to a water-consumption chart. [http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Water+Intake+Works]

Cleaned up def a little:

water intake =def. "A hydraulic-engineering installation which transports water - in specified amounts, of a specified quality, and in accordance with a water-consumption plan - from a source of supply into a conduit." +comment: "Sources of water include rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and other water bodies. Conduits include canals, pipelines, and tunnels. Water intakes typically transport water for purposes of hydroelectric power engineering, water supply, or irrigation."

building> cafeteria: A cafeteria is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafeteria]

cafeteria =def. "A building which provides the site for food services with little or no waiting staff furnishing table service."

This part "whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school" is not clear. Is this then a subclass of restaurant? Our current def of restaurant would allow this: restaurant =def. "A building within which food and drink are prepared and served to customers in exchange for money or other goods and/or services."

I'll keep it there for now.

building> delicatessen: A delicatessen or deli is a retail establishment that sells a selection of unusual or foreign prepared foods. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicatessen]

Handling "unusual" in a def creates issues, thus:

food shop > delicatessen =def. "A food shop which sells a selection of food products that are not typical dietary components of the human population it is co-located with." +comment: "The food products sold in a delicatessen are often considered unusual by the majority of its customers and may come from foreign food supplies which are not widely imported into its region of operation."

parent???> food truck: A food truck is a large vehicle equipped to cook and sell food. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_truck]

truck> food truck =def. "A truck which is equipped to cook and sell food." +comment: Due to the facilities on board, food trucks are often larger than other trucks with comparable mechanics.

building> take out restaurant: A restaurant providing prepared meals or other food items that the purchaser intends to eat elsewhere [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take-out]

The intention of the customer is more variable than the design of the facility. One could go to a sit-down restaurant and intend to eat purchased food elsewhere - does that make the place a take-out restaurant? I could imagine several chefs taking issue with this. Thus:

take-out restaurant =def. "A restaurant which provides prepared meals or other food products that the purchaser must eat off its premises." +exact synonym: take out restaurant +exact synonym: take-away

If you need a term for any restaurant that offers take-out, the semantics will be a little different.

building> kiosk: In the Western hemisphere and in English-speaking countries, a kiosk is also a booth with an open window on one side. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiosk]

kiosk =def. "A booth with an open window on one side." +comment: This definition of kiosk is characteristic of the Western hemisphere and used in English-speaking countries. +editor note: "The relation between booths and buildings needs to be clarified. Booth should be its own class."

kiosk > food kiosk: A food kiosk is a kiosk dedicated to selling food. [Custom]

I relaxed the definition somewhat, as many food kiosks also sell non-food items.

food kiosk =def. "A kiosk from which food products are sold."

Let me know if that's too relaxed. Same comment and editor note as kiosk.

TODO:

building> grocery store:A grocery store is a retail store that primarily sells food. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grocery_store]

building> market: A market, or marketplace, is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_(place)]

building> specialty/ethic store: A specialty/ethnic food store is a store specializing in a particular variety of food or food of cultural or regional origin. [Custom]

building part> sink: A sink—also known by other names including sinker, washbowl, hand basin and wash basin—is a bowl-shaped plumbing fixture used for washing hands, dishwashing, and other purposes. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink]

building part> bathtub: A bathtub, bath, or tub (informal) is a large or small container for holding water in which a person or a persons pet may bathe. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub]

building part> shower: A shower is a place in which a person bathes under a spray of typically warm or hot water. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shower]

Ok, thanks for that curation, semantics look fine! Food Kiosk is fine as you've defined.

About "take-out restaurant", ok, your defn sounds fine. I'll need to create an additional "take out" food product service in FoodOn perhaps to cover the restaurant that also offers take-out case.

fairground : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairground definition: Fairground most typically refers to a permanent space that hosts fairs. synonyms: Fairground, Fair Ground

agricultural fairground: a fairground dedicated to the exhibition of agricultural technology, livestock, and farm-related activity.[custom]

Hmm, so this is more of a "zone" or site rather than (necessarily) a construction. We have a bunch of zones which will be moved over to sites eventually, but while those semantics are being figured out, I'll keep it with campground under the less involved anthropogenic geographic feature (a class which will eventually be populated by inference).

fairground =def. "A part of an ecosystem which has been allocated to host a gathering of people for multiple entertainment or commercial activities." +comment: "Fairgrounds, or parts thereof, may be constructed (e.g. concreted over) or be natural (e.g. clearings or heaths), thus land use is the key differentia." +editor note: "A good candidate to draft land use semantics around"

'agricultural fairground' =def. "A fairground which is used to exhibit agricultural technology, livestock, and farm-related activity."

building> grocery store:A grocery store is a retail store that primarily sells food. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grocery_store]

I updated the shop and food shop in our building hierarchy. Our food shop class doesn't commit to food being the primary offer, so we can use grocery store for this:

'grocery store' =def. "A food shop in which food products are the primary offer for sale or trade."

However, this creates an issue with things like delicatessen requested above - by the def of grocery store, delicatessens would be a type of grocery store. Is this acceptable to you? I can see how a delicatessen is just a rather fancy form of grocery store, but I'm sure delicatessen owners would disagree.

For now, I've relocated delicatessen under grocery store.

building> market: A market, or marketplace, is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_(place)]

Similar to fairground , this is not really a building - treated as other 'grounds'.

market=def. "A part of an ecosystem where people gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods." +comment: "As with campgrounds and fairgrounds, land use is the key differentia here. The regularity of marketplace activities may provide a differentia for further growth of this branch." +editor note: "Hierarchies based on land use should replace the anthropogenic feature class once we have a stable rationale."

I've added a bunch of synonyms here too.

building> specialty/ethic store: A specialty/ethnic food store is a store specializing in a particular variety of food or food of cultural or regional origin. [Custom]

Moved under grocery store, although this may be better placed under food shop if food isn't necessarily the primary offer.

Another issue: do the regions/ethnic origins of the food offers have to be different from those in the locality? My instinct says yes (as I've added to the def), but this may not be the case. As a test case - would a store selling Mozarella in Campania’s Tenuta Vannulo be considered an ethnic food store?

'ethnic food shop' =def. "A food shop in which the food products on offer are restricted to those produced in a region and cultural setting other than that of the shop's locality."

building part> sink: A sink—also known by other names including sinker, washbowl, hand basin and wash basin—is a bowl-shaped plumbing fixture used for washing hands, dishwashing, and other purposes. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink]

Like toilet fixture, this wouldn't be a subclass of building part as this is used for more structural entities. I've created plumbing fixture under constructed feature for this class and others like it.

'sink fixture'=def. "A plumbing fixture which is bowl-shaped and used for washing hands, dishwashing, and other purposes."

building part> bathtub: A bathtub, bath, or tub (informal) is a large or small container for holding water in which a person or a persons pet may bathe. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub]

As above, a plumbing fixture:

'bathtub fixture'=def. "A plumbing fixture which may serve as a container for water in which humans or other animals may bathe." +comment: "Of course, there are other uses for bathtubs."

building part> shower: A shower is a place in which a person bathes under a spray of typically warm or hot water. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shower]

As above, a plumbing fixture:

'shower fixture'=def. "A plumbing fixture within which a human or other animal may bathe under a spray of water." +comment: "Indoors, there is a drain in the floor. Most showers have temperature, spray pressure and adjustable showerhead nozzle. Showering is common in Western culture due to the efficiency of using it compared with a bathtub. Its use in hygiene is, therefore, common practice. A shower uses less water on average than a bath: 80 litres for a shower compared with 150 litres for a bath."

On 26 Jun 2017, at 7:08, Pier Luigi Buttigieg wrote:

fairground =def. "A part of an ecosystem which may be or has been used by humans to host a fair."

I'm not so keen on using "part of an X" as a genus in a definition... plus it just sounds a bit odd

re. fairground; I see why 'part of' doesn't sound great - although the fairground area does indeed contribute to the ecosystem as a functional part, for better or worse, that is more of a side effect of its spatial existence. A "land use semantics" does sound good (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use). Then a relationship like "[geographic entity] has land allocation in [geographic entity]" could be a subclass of 'has part' pertaining to the designation of land for certain purposes. We can still have the general axiom that "a geographic entity is part of some ecosystem".

about "by the def of grocery store, delicatessens would be a type of grocery store. Is this acceptable to you?" Yes this is fine.
'ethnic food shop' =def. "... setting other than that of the shop's locality." - sounds right, interesting semantic case (like an enclave). The idea of being a bit more consistent (in english) about "shop" vs. "store" came to mind. That we should try to use just one or the other, and include alternates in synonyms.

I'm not so keen on using "part of an X" as a genus in a definition... plus it just sounds a bit odd

I agree - this is connected to sorting out environmental zone and the like. Once my astronomical body hierarchy is functional, we can represent these as fiat parts of (for the moment) planets.

The issue is the fuzzy boundaries here. But as @Public-Health-Bioinformatics notes, perhaps a combination of fiat parts + land use differentia would work.

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New terms for anthropocentric specimen sites #505