Re: Vote on usage of non-schema.org terms

On 17 Nov 2017, at 15:32, Justin Clark-Casey <justinccdev@gmail.com<mailto:justinccdev@gmail.com>> wrote:

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Gray, Alasdair J G <A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk<mailto:A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk>> wrote:

On 17 Nov 2017, at 15:03, Justin Clark-Casey <justinccdev@gmail.com<mailto:justinccdev@gmail.com>> wrote:

Alasdair, can I clarify what you mean by

"2. Data providers will also be free to provide additional terms with the same meaning.”

I had something different in mind. When validating a markup against a profile you have the choice of being

  *   “closed” – meaning that only terms that are expected are acceptable, or
  *   “open” – meaning that additional terms are acceptable

I was thinking that validation would be done in an open way, i.e. not reporting errors if additional terms are provided.

I think "open" is fine for validation.  That gives leeway to usecases that aren't just general findability, and maybe helps consensus on new properties to emerge.

Yes, I really believe that open is the way to go for Bioschemas. It fits with the schema.org<http://schema.org> ethos.


Does this refer to a profile providing term mappings (as raised by Michel, Philippe and others) contributed by different data providers (profile creation participants)?

With regard to mapping, is this something that Bioschemas should be maintaining or should we be encouraging the use of services like Bioportal and OLS for this purpose?

For me, the important thing is that the generation process is people coming together within Bioschemas.  I think it would be great if the actual mapping data itself is hosted by OLS/Bioportal.  My concern is that mapping algorithms aren't currently good enough simply to let the machines work it out (love to be proved wrong), and that needing automated mapping raises the complexity/cost of creating applications.

I’m keen that we don’t duplicate efforts that already exist, but we need to verify what would be the appropriate service to use. Looking at the OLS site, it seems that it will be the new year before they are supporting ontology mappings.
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/index

Related Tools

In addition to OLS the SPOT team also provides Zooma<https://www.ebi.ac.uk/spot/zooma>, a service to assist in mapping data to ontologies in OLS and Webulous<https://www.ebi.ac.uk/spot/webulous>, a tool for building ontologies from spreadsheets. Also, look out in the new year for our new Ontology mapping service that will assist you in mapping between different but related ontologies.

Alasdair

Alasdair J G Gray

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Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh UK.

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