Re: New Bioschemas types and properties for review

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your message of support and for all your nudges along the way so far.

We hope to have a proposal for wider review ready in a few months, although there will be a few specific requests coming sooner on existing types. I’ll follow up with you directly on the best way to get more visibility of the Bioschemas work within schema.org<http://schema.org>.

On the consumption front, we have a few activities on going. The first is the training events website that aggregates content from multiple sites. The second is around Identifiers.org<http://Identifiers.org> where we are consuming markup to improve the curation process of records. The third is the development of a bespoke search service. Hopefully these together will show the consumption and application of Bioschemas markup.

Best regards

Alasdair

On 8 Feb 2019, at 16:39, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org<mailto:danbri@danbri.org>> wrote:



On Fri, 8 Feb 2019, 06:38 Gray, Alasdair J G <A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk<mailto: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<http://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<http://schema.org/>. Once we have community consensus, we will first incorporate them into the Bioschemas site (bioschemas.org/types<http://bioschemas.org/types>) and then push for their inclusion in schema.org<http://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<http://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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