ontology of demographics

Barry suggested I create, based on work I presented in Buffalo in September, a 
demographics module of OGMS.  See: 
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/EHR/Demographics_Hogan_Buffalo_2010_09_22.ppt

The issue of demographics raises issues I'd like to consider on the next OGMS 
call:

1. It really seems like it ought to be an application ontology, because we are 
pulling in diverse things like social entities such as marriage contracts and 
cultural identity as well as biological ones like phenotypic and genotypic sex.

2. Some demographics issues transcend the domain of biomedicine.

3. But, as often happens in the OBO Foundry, the first ontology to need 
something outside its scope owns it until it makes sense to externalize it 
somehow.

If we were to start on including terms in OGMS not in other ontologies but 
needed for demographics, we'd need things like:

- Social entity
  - Contract
    - Marriage contract
- Social role
  - Gender role
    - Male gender role
    - Female gender role
  - Party to a legal entity
    - Party to a contract
      - Party to a marriage contract
    - Party to a legal proceeding

If the decision turns out to be that these things do not belong in OGMS, then 
I'd at least like recommendations as to where to go next.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hoga...@gmail.com on 29 Oct 2010 at 7:31

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