Re: Property reuse versus property minting

Hi Melanie, Alasdair

NCBI links work well for Samples but not necessarily for those 
Biodiversity communities who want to expose their contect via 
schema/bioschemas, they need to specify name, id, and so on. Similar to 
what happens for proteins and others, rather than just using 
CategoryCode to point to UniProt ontology and terms, haing a Protein 
type would also enable a richer mark up.

Also, I think Alasdair and Franck's question refers to properties rather 
than types. Taxon is proposed as a type, not as a property.

Regards,



On 2018-10-31 10:37, Melanie Courtot wrote:
> 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 [2], 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
>> 
>> "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 [1] 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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> [2] http://bioschemas.org/specifications/Sample/

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