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An ontology about groups of interacting organisms such as populations and communities
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PCO:carrying capacity to cede to ECOCORE #62

Open kaiiam opened 7 years ago

kaiiam commented 7 years ago

Hello @ramonawalls . I would like to at some point, cede the PCO:carrying capacity to ECOCORE the ontology of core ecological entities recently created with @pbuttigieg as collaborator.

I believe it should be housed in ECOCORE as carrying capacity is a quality of an ecosystem rather than of a population, for which propose the new definition:

A quality inherent in an an ecosystem, in which a population residing within and depending upon such ecosystem, is restricted to a maximum sustainable population size.

However since ECOCORE is not yet hosted on Ontobee, I'm hesitant to change the purl if that means removing it from current usage. Could I perhaps update the term in PCO, make it a subclass to a new term: quality of an ecosystem and add an editors note to be ceded to ECOCORE pending ECOCORE's addition to Ontobee?

Cheers, Kai

ramonawalls commented 7 years ago

@kaiiam I agree that carrying capacity is not a quality of a population, but rather of an ecosystem, and that ecocore is a better home. However, I am reluctant to add quality of an ecosystem to PCO, as it will just be deprecated and moved to ecocore. Also, a substantive change to carrying capacity (i.e. changing its parent term) requires that it be deprecated and replaced by a new term. I think a better solution would be to deprecate the PCO term, with a note that is moving to ecocore, then go ahead and create the new terms in ecocore. As far as I know, no large projects are using carrying capacity from PCO. If they were, they probably would have pointed out that it was wrong!

ramonawalls commented 5 years ago

@kaiiam Just wondering if anything ever happened with this? Should the issue remain open?