Proofing/Finalizing the ontology

[jasonclark]

Help in finalizing the vocabulary for describing the researchers and their work. Note: You don't need to be Semantic Web expert to help here - anyone with an opinion about metadata can help!

[afomi]

In order to better contribute to a review on the ontology, what is the desired outcome, goal, or type of feedback you're looking for?

This feels a bit like a subset of schema.org to me, and am wondering if the objects in the .rdf are re-creating a wheel that exists elsewhere in digi-academia.

[jasonclark]

Thanks for the question. Feedback like what you have started here is a place to start. I browsed the bioscience ontologies at https://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/ and in the linked data cloud. These ontologies tended to narrow quickly and couldn't account for the unusual collaborations and research partnerships happening in the Center for Biofilm Engineering. So, I began this ontology draft to help guide the controlled vocabulary underpinning the application.

As for what might be helpful, here are a few suggestions:

• Pointing to existing ontologies that might be used instead.
• Generating additional subclasses that can extend this draft of the ontology.
• Validating the RDF and making sure the ontology can work in a broader setting or be released.

I'll be available here June 1 and June 2 from 9 am to 5pm EDT watching for questions. You can also reach me on twitter @jaclark