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The "VIVO-ISF Ontology" is an OWL2 representation of the VIVO-ISF Data Standard
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Rename GovernmentAgency to GovernmentOrganization #715

Open mconlon17 opened 6 years ago

mconlon17 commented 6 years ago

Would like to consider renaming the GovernmentAgency type to GovernmentOrganization. Reasons:

Consistency with other organization sub-types -- researchOrganization, studentOrganization, FundingOrganization. "Agency" implies a part of some larger government. See, for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_agency As a result of the above, data managers are reticent to use GovernmentAgency to refer to the government itself, or to refer to parts of a government that do not appear to be agencies. Examples: US Senate, Government of India.

https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/VIVO-1363

hauschke commented 6 years ago

Affects legacy data, impact high.