Submitted by Barry, relaying from Chris
From: Chris Mungall <cjmungall@lbl.gov>
Date: Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 2:14 PM
Subject: ranges, clusters, complexes etc in ENVO
To: Barry Smith <phismith@buffalo.edu>, Pier Luigi Buttigieg
<p.buttigieg@gmail.com>
In attempting to match GAZ descriptions with ENVO terms it's clear we need a
pattern to distinguish Xs from a region defined by a group of Xs:
http://code.google.com/p/envo/issues/detail?id=90
The FMA has terms such as "set of X" (they should really be called "collections
of X").
But I don't think this is quite analogous. In EVO and GAZ we are typically
interested in the mereological sum of the aggregate plus its interstitial
regions. E.g. an archipelago is (I think) the islands plus water inbetween. A
mountain range may include (I think) as parts some things that are not part of
a mountain.
It may nevertheless be useful to define this in terms of a proposed new (or
rather reinstated) BFO class for aggregates. There may be cases where it is
useful to define an aggregate without its interstices.
Something to think about next year,
Compliments of the season,
Chris
Original issue reported on code.google.com by alanruttenberg@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2014 at 1:07
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
alanruttenberg@gmail.comon 28 Jan 2014 at 1:07