Re: How to relate an entity to a dataset?

Hi Franck

This is a really good question and one that we as a community need to come up with an answer for.

The Bioschemas data group came up with the proposal for having a DataRecord profile over the schema.org/Dataset<http://schema.org/Dataset> type.
http://bioschemas.org/specifications/DataRecord/


However, discussions have led to this approach not being favoured since it would distort searches for datasets
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-bioschemas/2018Oct/0002.html

https://github.com/BioSchemas/specifications/issues/217


Based on this, the data group then proposed a DataRecord type
http://bioschemas.org/types/DataRecord/


This has led to lots of discussions on whether the resources we are marking up are representations of the concept themselves or the data record about the concept. Currently no conclusion has come of this discussion.

Looking at the examples for the DataRecord proposal, they proposed to use schema.org/mainEntityOfPage<http://schema.org/mainEntityOfPage> to connect the data record to the concept that it was discussing.
https://github.com/BioSchemas/specifications/tree/master/DataRecord/examples/


In the examples, there are a variety of different ways of connecting the record to the dataset including schema.org/isBasedOn<http://schema.org/isBasedOn> (UniProt example), schema.org/isPartOf<http://schema.org/isPartOf> (Biosamples and PDBe examples), and bioschemas.org/datasetPartOf<http://bioschemas.org/datasetPartOf> (Biosamples example). Both of the schema.org<http://schema.org> properties would require that all concepts are of type CreativeWork which is not compatible with the proposal to extend schema.org<http://schema.org> with life sciences types which extend from schema.org/Thing<http://schema.org/Thing>.
http://bio.sdo-bioschemas-227516.appspot.com/


It is clear that there is a need to connect the markup of a resource to the dataset that contains the resource. The main focus of the debate has been on whether there is a need for a separate DataRecord type, or whether you accept that everything we mark up is a web resource and therefore essentially a record by default. Either way, we as a community need to agree on a common way to connect some markup about a concept to the markup of a dataset containing that concept. However, the answer to this is likely to depend on whether we need to have a DataRecord or not.

I would invite others to give their opinions on this and would like us to consider finally closing this issue of whether there is a need for a DataRecord type or not.

Best regards

Alasdair

On 14 Feb 2019, at 20:53, Franck Michel <fmichel@i3s.unice.fr<mailto:fmichel@i3s.unice.fr>> wrote:

Dear all,

In the biodiversity group we have defined a Taxon type. Taxa are usually part of taxonomic registries. So I'm wondering how to mark up a web page describing or referring to a given taxon while denoting that this taxon is part of a taxonomic registry.

Looking further in Bioschemas types, I see several ways of doing this, and I guess this question applies equally to other types.

We can think of a taxonomic registry as a schema.org/Dataset<http://schema.org/Dataset>. In this context, each taxon would be a DataRecord, but how do we relate a DataRecord to its Dataset?

We can also think of a taxonomic registry as a DataCatalog wherein taxa would be Datasets (property includedInDataCatalog).

Could the datasets group on shed light on this? Also what about how the other groups have coped with this?

Thx,
   Franck.

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