IDO 4: productivity, capacity, and resilience

[Mttbnchtt]

For IDO 4, @pbuttigieg indicated that we need productivity, economic productivity, and capacity. Concerning the last term, we need it for most of IDOs.

Concerning the first two terms, the NCIT ontology has _productivity_, which they define as follows: "The ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time." They put productivity under power or attribute, however, @pbuttigieg suggests to put it under disposition.

Moreover, the defifnition of productivity of the NCIT is focused on economic productivity, unless ones takes labor to indicate any process, including wholly natural ones.

@marieALaporte: do you think we could use the NCIT item changing its label to economic productivity? Or we should just create a different item for SDGIO?

[Mttbnchtt]

@pbuttigieg @marieALaporte Concerning the item capacity, we have to distinguish at least between capacity in the sense of volume (or something similar: the bottle's capacity is 1L) and capacity in a sense close to disposition, power, or ability (something expressed by some sense of the verb can: she can understand French). Only the second sense is relevant to us.

NCIT considers capacity only in the first sense.

The OED takes capacity in the second sense to be an ability. This SEP article tentatively suggests the hierarchy: ability is a power is a capacity (where the other direction does not hold for any of those items).

Putting together the SEP article and Cartwright's Nature's capacities, one could say that (a) capacities are something that is typically expressed by the modal 'can' taken to express not a mere possibility or probability; (b) something that can be triggered, shielded, enhanced, interfered with, and the like; (c) something that not only individuals have (contrary to powers, which are capacities that only individuals have).

This is still not a definition though. Any suggestions?

[marieALaporte]

@Mttbnchtt It is not good practice to change the label (or any other property) of an imported term. As the semantics of NCIT is a bit tricky and doesn't align well with what we have in SDGIO, I would recommend creating a term directly in SDGIO. You can reference the NCIT class as source for the definition if you think that's useful.

[Mttbnchtt]

@marieALaporte: sounds good. Thanks.

Concerning resilience, see #203.

[Mttbnchtt]

The SDGIO definition of productivity could be: ratio of output (goods, productis, etc.) per unit of input (labor, material, equipment, etc.).

While NDCIT restricts input to labor (and thus ends up defining economic productivity rather than productivity), we are more general. What do you think?

[Mttbnchtt]

We create our definitions of productivity and economic productivity. I also add capacity and we discuss later.

[Mttbnchtt]

I added productivity, economic productivity, and capacity.

[Mttbnchtt]

In #201, what does it mean that development of capacity to increase agricultural productivity can be post-composed? How?

[Mttbnchtt]

In #201, what does it mean that development of capacity to increase agricultural productivity can be post-composed? How?

It can be done, when needed, at the instance level. We do not create this process class for now.

[Mttbnchtt]

We need to add "ratio" from PATO. http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001470