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Add field for exemplar classes #899

Open cmungall opened 5 years ago

cmungall commented 5 years ago

Add a field to the metadata schema to allow groups to provide a list of exemplar classes. This would serve various purposes:

I think we could make something like a minimum of 5 exemplars required for review (attn EWG)

jamesaoverton commented 5 years ago

I think it's a good idea. There are some sources we could draw from to pre-populate this.

The PURL configs have an example_terms field. My intention was for it to have a few of the most important terms for testing, but I wouldn't say that's how it's actually used. Still, it might be useful to draw from there to populate this.

Ontobee also shows some of the most important terms -- the list is better for some ontologies than others. Oliver sent me those lists and I put them in the "Ontobee Top Level Terms" sheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DHU6EktJKuOShV_vK-gKLK6b5RwXG021kAfpqWkcKIU

bpeters42 commented 5 years ago

This reminds me of the keywords field for publications for which I never saw much value. Authors (and I suspect ontology developers) are not always that great in defining 'most important terms'. Not opposed to this, but it does not strike me as something of high priority given everything else that is going on.

nlharris commented 2 years ago

Is this still needed?

cthoyt commented 2 years ago

Bioregistry also keeps track of these now too

matentzn commented 2 years ago

Still think its a good idea but some ontologies don't coin terms, like OMO, or some project ontologies..

I just think this is low priority, nice to have.