Open ashleysommer opened 3 weeks ago
There remains a question about the use of sdo:additionalType
on a tern:Sample
.
Sample is a kind of a FeatureOfInterest, and TERN ontology uses tern:featureType
to soft-type Features.
The correct thing to do here would be also replace featureType with sdo:additionalType
, however tern:featureType
is extensively used, and is hard to move away from.
Yes can be removed, I don't think we are using both properties. FYi @javiersan18 @junrongYu
My understanding is
samplingType
andobservationType
were included in the TERN ontology to allow a kind of soft-typing mechanism, using more specific types from a vocabulary rather than adding new SubClasses to the TERN ontology.There popular and increasing use of
sdo:additionalType
from schema.org that does the same thing, it is becoming the de-facto standard way of soft-typing across many data models.The predicates
samplingType
andobservationType
in TERN ontology are not widely used, I don't know of any real world published datasets that use them. Most simply use/(abuse?)usedProcedure
to classify different kinds of Samplings and Observations.I propose to remove
samplingType
andobservationType
from TERN ontology and replace them withsdo:additionalType
.Aside, this would be a good opportunity to remove
dcterms:type
profiling from the TERN ontology if it was an implementation detail and wasn't supposed to be in the published ontology.