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EASE (Essential Annotation Schema for Ecology)
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Add backbone for locations in owl #77

Closed cpfaff closed 8 years ago

cpfaff commented 8 years ago

This is the first issue for the owl vocabulary. I will start to add more concepts to the location to form the backbone. I will create new issues with descriptions that will involve you @naouelkaram if wee need support for more complex stuff.

cpfaff commented 8 years ago

This is the first commit: a1891513cf44676199052f121c41405e94aeb25d

cpfaff commented 8 years ago

@naouelkaram I have a question. Currently we have the following structure:

Thing
    Location
        Continent
            List of continents ...
        Country
                   List of countries ...

I would rather like to be more general so that it is possible to just list all locations just in a flat list. And then describe that there is a type and then have there under location type Continent Country and whatever else will come. How to best do that.

cpfaff commented 8 years ago

@naouelkaram Sorry I saved the comment before it was finished.

cpfaff commented 8 years ago

Well that would directly go into very much detail and complexity. I just want to discuss what we really need and what the best solution is to represent it in the owl file. If we want to simply just list what concepts we have then the structure above is fine. If we want something that is extendable (which would be cool) then I would add a more generic structure that allows to learn from new annotations. How would this look like? In a tool that guides through the annotation process we ask the user to specify a location name and then to classify it. The classification represents a location type and the name well is a location name. Currently this is not possible with the schema that we have.

cpfaff commented 8 years ago

I am just playing around. Now we have the structure:

Thing
    Location
        List of location names here ...

    Location Type
        Country
        Continent

And we have an object property that says hasType. That would for example allow: Lets say we are tagging search objects to fetch all search objects that are tagged with a specifiy location from the list. Or we can ask get me all search objects that are tagged with a country.

cpfaff commented 8 years ago

Or at least we can do that if the locations are linked with the property to the types. Could you assist with that @naouelkaram