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Define content of sdgio.owl #15

Open pbuttigieg opened 8 years ago

pbuttigieg commented 8 years ago

@phismith suggested that SDGIO remain small, only minting new classes 1) which represent entities relevant to the SDGs, their targets, and (perhaps) indicators and 2) which are not better placed (or already present in) a domain ontology.

This would necessitate that new domain ontologies are intialised to handle sociological, legal, and other sets of entities not currently addressed in the OBO Library. @phismith will attempt to catalyse this.

@rlwalls2008 @pbuttigieg raised the point that the actual OWL file could contain modules from imported ontologies, which may help non-expert consumers of the ontology understand the interplay of SDGIO and its imports. This may not be needed if those modules (or the imported ontologies themselves) are imported and visualised using some sort of integrative user platform.

Of course, one can simply host both versions:

Discussion about this can be centralised on this issue.

phismith commented 8 years ago

I imagine that there will be a need for several different extended SDGIO resources, for instance one for water, one for air, and so on

Pier and I have been working on a draft hazard ontology Please let me know what other sociological, legal etc., ontologies are needed BS

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Pier Luigi Buttigieg < notifications@github.com> wrote:

@phismith https://github.com/phismith suggested that SDGIO remain small, only minting new classes 1) which represent entities relevant to the SDGs, their targets, and (perhaps) indicators and 2) which are not better placed (or already present in) a domain ontology.

This would necessitate that new domain ontologies are intialised to handle sociological, legal, and other sets of entities not currently addressed in the OBO Library. @phismith https://github.com/phismith will attempt to catalyse this.

@rlwalls2008 https://github.com/rlwalls2008 @pbuttigieg https://github.com/pbuttigieg raised the point that the actual OWL file could contain modules from imported ontologies, which may help non-expert consumers of the ontology understand the interplay of SDGIO and its imports. This may not be needed if those modules (or the imported ontologies themselves) are imported and visualised using some sort of integrative user platform.

Of course, one can simply host both versions:

  • A 'core' SDGIO OWL file with the minimal set of classes required to define SDGIO classes.
  • An 'extended' SDGIO OWL file which imports external classes showing more of the context These can be alternate subsets of the sdgio-edit.owl file, which would likely contain the superset of all relevant classes.

Discussion about this can be centralised on this issue.

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pbuttigieg commented 8 years ago

Scanning the SDGs and the Targets suggests some domains.

I've started a wiki page on this subject here and another on the scope of SDGIO classes here. These pages should be updated with discussion. @phismith - would you like edit rights to the wiki pages?

Pier and I have been working on a draft hazard ontology

Is the intention to create a new ontology or to define hazard and import classes from other ontologies (e.g. earthquake from ENVO) as needed?

pbuttigieg commented 8 years ago

Following a discussion during a GoTo meeting, it was agreed that SDGIO will temporarily host classes that will be pushed to yet-to-be-developed domain ontologies. This will allow faster development. These classes should be annotated with sensible subset identifiers so they can be exported easily.

pbuttigieg commented 8 years ago

Issues which are entitled "Represent Goal [1..17]" are relevant to this issue. For example #16 #17 #18 #19. These contain or will contain tables where classes are partitioned into various domains. Classes which have no immediate home will be put into SDGIO, but will be surrendered to the correct domain ontology when it is created.

phismith commented 8 years ago

We should start a little less of what these identifiers should be BS

On Sep 15, 2015, at 11:33, Pier Luigi Buttigieg notifications@github.com wrote:

Following a discussion during a GoTo meeting, it was agreed that SDGIO will temporarily host classes that will be pushed to yet-to-be-developed domain ontologies. This will allow faster development. These classes should be annotated with sensible subset identifiers so they can be exported easily.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.