epo:hasMainActivity codelist, example, domain

[VladimirAlexiev]

epo:hasMainActivity is defined as "The principal sectoral area in which an organisation operates.\n\nAdditional information:\n\nThe activities associated with buyers are derived from the top level of the Classification of the functions of the government (COFOG) from the United Nations Statistics Division.\n\nThe activities associated with buyer are derived from sectors explicitly falling within the sectoral directive (2014/25/EU Art. 8 - Art. 14).\n\nWG Approval 05/05/2020\n\nThe codelist to be used is at-voc:main-activity which is available at http://publications.europa.eu/resource/dataset/main-activity (org:Organization -> at-voc:main-activity (+epo:hasMainActivity)) "@en ;

However:

• http://publications.europa.eu/resource/dataset/main-activity doesn't return concepts, but only metadata about a dataset
  • http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/main-activity does return concepts
• looking at this concept scheme, it is very limited, so I think it applies only to Buyers. However:
  • epo:hasMainActivity doesn't define a domain
  • but epo:hasMainActivityDescription which is its "sister" property defines domain org:Organization, which I think denotes both vendors and buyers?
  • evidence: "This field is used when the Main Activity is not available in the controlled list at-voc:main-activity-type"

Please:

• reference http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/main-activity
• put the same in rdfs:seeAlso
• give skos:example <http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/main-activity/port> to illustrate the form of expected URL
• define a proper domain for both props, denoting Buyers only

[VladimirAlexiev]

397 is very similar

[andreea-pasare]

The codelists are just recommendations in the ePO UML diagrams, therefore all reference to codelists in the machine readable files have been removed.

[VladimirAlexiev]

@andreea-pasare I'm not sure what you wrote is true, the two fields still refer to codelists: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AOP-TED%2FePO+epo%3AhasMainActivity&type=code

• :hasMainActivity "The activities associated with buyer are derived from sectors explicitly falling within the sectoral directive (2014/25/EU Art. 8 - Art. 14)." ... org:Organization -> at-voc:main-activity [0..1]
• :hasMainActivityDescription "Additional information: This field is used when the Main Activity is not available in the controlled list at-voc:main-activity-type ."

But it was true, it would be akin to "dereliction of duty": you define a field that should have values according to some EU directive, OPOCE seems to publish such a list, and yet your field fails to reference the list?

And how about defining a domain? Isn't that important?

[andreea-pasare]

@VladimirAlexiev, thank you for your reply. This seems to be a change that needs to be done in model2owl. I added a ticket there regarding this request:

• https://github.com/OP-TED/model2owl/issues/198

[VladimirAlexiev]

Should you not keep this issue open until https://github.com/OP-TED/model2owl/issues/198 is fixed, and then this one is fixed too?

And how about defining a domain? Isn't that important?

[andreea-pasare]

@VladimirAlexiev,

Regarding the domain question, my bad, I completely forgot to answer in my previous comment. The domain and range are defined in the restrictions file: https://github.com/OP-TED/ePO/blob/ff440967f15132e53f823a502897f17e1ceefa54/implementation/ePO_core/owl_ontology/ePO_core_restrictions.ttl#L459-L460

I am re-opening this issue until the one in model2owl is fixed. Then we will proceed with resolving this issue as well.