rob-metalinkage
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4 years ago FAIR is an opportunity to improve BP here - by looking at each of the FAIR principles from the community enagagement perspective.
Reusability is a significant factor here - re-use is a driver for interoperability. Mechanisms to adopt, refine and extend available resources need to be clear (findable) and accessible - and canonical methods will be far easier to develop into well-known and understandable approaches than ad-hoc ones.
BP-Rec. 7: Interact with the designated community and manage user-centric development
Description
A semantic artefact needs to reflect the actual semantic model/conceptualisation embraced and endorsed by the community that uses it. As science and language changes, changes and updates are inevitable in the long run or content drift will happen in the semantics. This has to be acknowledged and managed. As others (re)use semantic artefacts to enable interoperability there has to be even more clear processes for managing the necessary communication and negotiations.
Semantic artefacts have to be regarded as services in their own right, not only service components, especially if they are reused (used by several systems or solutions). Thus ownership as well as continuous user centred development should be ensured.
Interaction and communication with the designated community has to be organised and managed as a process. The community should receive training and guidance in using and developing the semantic artifact.
Existing recommendations :
● OBO Foundry - Principle 9 Users [8]
● OBO Foundry - Principle 11 Authority [9]
● OBO Foundry - Principle 16 Maintenance [10]
● IOF Principle 16 [11]
● IOF Principle 15
● IOF Principle 14
Stakeholder : Practitioner