Re: New Bioschemas types and properties for review

On Fri, 8 Feb 2019, 06:38 Gray, Alasdair J G <A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk wrote:

> Dear Bioschemas Community
>
> A new and more comprehensive draft of Bioschemas types and properties can
> be found at the following URL
> http://bio.sdo-bioschemas-227516.appspot.com/
>
> These new types and properties have come from the work started at the
> Paris Biohackathon 2018 and the recognition that we need to define a
> Bioschemas extension to schema.org; not merely a single BioChemEntity
> type. Their definition has been done using the tools that will allow for
> their inclusion into schema.org. Once we have community consensus, we
> will first incorporate them into the Bioschemas site (bioschemas.org/types)
> and then push for their inclusion in schema.org.
>

Glad to see this coming together! It does concern me a bit that we've never
seen any broad proposal bubble up outside of the Bioschemas project for
wider review. While I have personally tried to stay in touch, join some
meetings, suggest directions, flag possible issues etc., I can't presume to
prejudge the will of the Schema.org steering group and other interested
parties. We should get more folks to take a look at this asap.

Regarding "push for inclusion", I think the original expectations I tried
to set clearly back when Bioschemas emerged was that this was an area where
showing *consumption* rather than mere publication would be necessary.
Without motivating applications it is hard to say what level of detail,
descriptive granularity, etc., to go for.  So that is the kind of "pushing"
I would push for. Where are we on that front?

cheers,

Dan



> We would appreciate the community reviewing these types and properties so
> that we can push forward with updating the Bioschemas profiles to work with
> these.
>
> There are a number of properties and types that are missing definitions.
> Proposals for these should be added to the respective issue 261, 269-286.
> https://github.com/BioSchemas/specifications/issues
>
> Best regards
>
> Alasdair
>
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