phaleron-si: Vertebral ROIs with wrong superclasses

[cuboideum]

The following ROIs describing parts of vertebrae are currently defined as subclasses of 'Entire vertebra' (rdfbones:EntireBoneOrgan_fma9914):

• Entire body of vertebra (phaleron-si:EntireBodyOfVertebra)
• Entire body of cervical vertebra (phaleron-si:EntireBodyOfCervicalVertebra)
• Entire left part of cervical vertebra (phaleron-si:EntireLeftPartOfCervicalVertebra)
• Entire right part of cervical vertebra (phaleron-si:EntireRightPartOfCervicalVertebra)
• Entire body of lumbar vertebra (phaleron-si:EntireBodyOfLumbarVertebra)
• Entire left part of lumbar vertebra (phaleron-si:EntireLeftPartOfLumbarVertebra)
• Entire right part of lumbar vertebra (phaleron-si:EntireRightPartOfLumbarVertebra)
• Entire neural arch of vertebra (phaleron-si:EntireNeuralArchOfVertebra)
• Entire body of thoracic vertebra (phaleron-si:EntireBodyOfThoracicVertebra)
• Entire left part of thoracic vertebra (phaleron-si:EntireLeftPartOfThoracicVertebra)
• Entire right part of thoracic vertebra (phaleron-si:EntireRightPartOfThoracicVertebra)

There are two problems with these elements:

1. They describe entities that are not entire vertebrae but segments of vertebrae (class standards-si:SegmentOfVertebra).
2. Labels and URIs do not follow RDFBones naming conventions reserving the term 'entire' for entire bone organs.

There are of 'Segment of vertebra' (standards-si:SegmentOfVertebra) corresponding to the classes listed above:

• Body of vertebra (phaleron-si:BodyOfVertebra)
• Neural arch of vertebra (phaleron-si:NeuralArchOfVertebra)
• Body of cervical vertebra (phaleron-si:BodyOfCervicalVertebra)
• Left half of neural arch of cervical vertebra (phaleron-si:LeftHalfOfNeuralArchOfCervicalVertebra)
• Right half of neural arch of cervical vertebra (phaleron-si:RightHalfOfNeuralArchOfCervicalVertebra)
• Body of lumbar vertebra (phaleron-si:BodyOfLumbarVertebra)
• Left half of neural arch of cervical vertebra (phaleron-si:LeftHalfOfNeuralArchOfLumbarVertebra)
• Right half of neural arch of cervical vertebra (phaleron-si:RightHalfOfNeuralArchOfLumbarVertebra)
• Body of throacic vertebra (phaleron-si:BodyOfThoracicVertebra)
• Left half of neural arch of thoracic vertebra (phaleron-si:LeftHalfOfNeuralArchOfThoracicVertebra)
• Right half of neural arch of thoracic vertebra (phaleron-si:RightHalfOfNeuralArchOfThoracicVertebra)

The problematic class definitions need to be removed and the correct ones used instead.

[cuboideum]

AnthroGraph's PBP app uses the faulty classes instead of the correct ones.

I suggest to declare the faulty classes as equivalent classes of the correct ones and deprecate them.

@zarquon42b: What do you think? Will the faulty classes losing their current superclasses compromise the PBP App*s functionality in AnthroGraph?

[zarquon42b]

I don't really understand the question.

1. If the faulty classes are instantiated at the moment => problem
2. If only the superclasses are wrong and the instantiations are correct => no problem.

I suggest to declare the faulty classes as equivalent classes of the correct ones and deprecate them.

The equivalence statement does absolutely nothing to the functionality of the application only to the consistency of the ontology

[cuboideum]

Unfortunately, option 1 is correct. We do have a problem.

The equivalence statement does absolutely nothing to the functionality of the application only to the consistency of the ontology

Correct. That is the objective of the maneuver.

Can we proceed as suggested, then?