Re: Property reuse versus property minting

Hi Alasdair, all,

The google doc points to this thread as the place to follow discussion regarding the Taxon proposed entity. In the specific case of Taxon I would prefer to reuse the NCBI taxonomy directly - it is a well established vocabulary, and we could easily include it if we were to use the construct from the sample specification <http://bioschemas.org/specifications/Sample/>, in which we use categoryCode with ontology terms.

As indicated in the spec, the *only* change needed for this to work is to include CategoryCode as an expected type for valueReference.

Cheers,
Melanie 


> On 30 Oct 2018, at 09:11, Gray, Alasdair J G <A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> The following question has been raised by Franck Michel in the current proposal for Bioschemas (review period ends on Thursday).
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cw9K25N1l-Lbet1cahJuFtYgNKiF76apGcCqJPSeuZg/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cw9K25N1l-Lbet1cahJuFtYgNKiF76apGcCqJPSeuZg/edit?usp=sharing>
> 
> "When do we reuse existing properties from other ontiologies?"
> 
> The approach taken in developing the proposal was that any property that was minimal or recommended should be minted as new properties. Properties that were optional were OK to be taken from existing ontologies. However, we do need to consider the logical implications of the latter. Newly minted properties have been mapped (the exact mapping term is up for discussion) to the existing ontology term that was previously identified.
> 
> The rationale for this decision was that the minimal and recommended properties would then be understood by generic consumers, e.g. the major search engines, and could be exploited in returning rich snippets. 
> 
> This is about trying to strike the right balance between adding a limited set of additional types and properties to schema.org <http://schema.org/> and not reinventing all the work that has taken place in ontology development in the life sciences.
> 
> This email thread is your chance to help shape this design decision for the development of future Bioschemas profiles.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Alasdair
> 
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