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A simple data model to represent contributions made by agents to research artifacts
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Capture Agent title/status at time of contribution? #24

Open mbrush opened 5 years ago

mbrush commented 5 years ago

Should we include an attribute on the Contribution object that lets us capture the professional position/title/status of an agent when the contribution was made? This would support queries like "Find papers with more than 4 contributions by graduate students"

Or should this be handled as part of the Agent model which we defer to implementations to define?

mellybelly commented 5 years ago

I agree this is useful information but i worry it gets too much into modeling people. however it is a sort of secondary transitive attributution to the environment/context/org in which the contribution was made.

I guess i would err on keeping it and getting feedback. People do want to be able to query for these sorts of contributions all the time: what are the products of my post-docs? for example.

mellybelly commented 5 years ago

I might leave this out upon further thinking - it seems to be the type of modeling that would be in places like VIVO, i guess i don't think person status belongs in this model? obviously the questions are interesting but they should be answserable when you combine data from expertise/profiling systems? good point though about how to answer these questions when there is no other data or system to do the person association to these types of contexts.