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Is scope of OGMS strictly limited to humans? #86

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
In a call today (2014-12-01) to resolve seemingly duplicate representational 
units in OBI and OGMS, the question arose of whether OGMS is intended to 
represent only human disease/diagnosis/general medicine.

The resolution of items depends on the answer to this question.

For example, OBI:disease is intended to be across multiple species and not 
limited to humans.  So if OGMS:disease is strictly specific to humans, then 
OGMS:disease is_a OBI:disease.  But OGMS:disease and OBI:disease represent the 
same type in reality, then OBI will defer to OGMS (pending resolution of issue 
that DO has its own URI for disease, despite using a nearly identical textual 
definition to OGMS).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hoga...@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2014 at 6:05

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I'll also weigh in on the issue.  All the definitions say 'organism', there's 
no reason to limit it, and we certainly want OGMS to be applicable to 
veterinary medicine.  Although human clinical medicine was the chief driving 
use case, all the representations are broader than that at present, and this 
situation does not create any difficulties that I can foresee.

Original comment by hoga...@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2014 at 6:07

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I completely agree with Bill's comment.

Original comment by MBrochhausen@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2014 at 6:31