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The "VIVO-ISF Ontology" is an OWL2 representation of the VIVO-ISF Data Standard
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how to connect a extinguished organization with its replacement #655

Open arademaker opened 9 years ago

arademaker commented 9 years ago

A research center was extinguished and a new center was created with a different name being a kind of continuation of the old one. The most part of researchers from the old one joined the new one. How to deal with such change?

We could add an end date in the old center and create a new center, keeping the complete change history. Maybe connecting them with some property to indicate the relation between them...

Melissa suggested:

What do we do about people who change names? these are alt names for same entity. Is this organization the same entity, or a new one?

perhaps derives_from? http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0001000

jcorson55 commented 9 years ago

The VIVO-ISF ontology already has the vivo:hasSuccessorOrganization object property and its inverse vivo:hasPredecessorOrganization available for this purpose. Of course, as Violeta points out, the hardest thing is to decide whether the name change continues the same organization (in which case adding a 2nd vCard is all that may be needed) or a different organization, when this object property seems appropriate.

mconlon17 commented 9 years ago

We use hasSuccessorOrganization to record such changes. So when we query for UF orgs, we typically need to exclude orgs that have successors. See sample SPARQL here: http://mconlon17.github.io/sparql/list_uf_orgs_cleaning.txt and note the FILTER(!bound(?successor))