Types vs Profiles

Hi Chris, all

Sorry for the slow response. I’ve moved this message onto another thread to separate out this part of the discussion.

On 20 May 2019, at 21:59, Chris Mungall <cjmungall@lbl.gov<mailto:cjmungall@lbl.gov>> wrote:

I'm not really familiar with bioschemas profiles - looks to be synonymous with class here: https://bioschemas.org/specifications/ -- are there examples of how different communities could have different profiles for the same class?

It's quite possible there is something I'm fundamentally misunderstanding about bioschemas, sorry…

This misunderstanding with what is a type and what is a profile is a problem that I need to resolve for Bioschemas. I’ll try to explain it here and see whether this helps.

Schema.org<http://schema.org/> provides types and properties. The types are things that we can talk about and the properties are the things that we can say about the type. Within schema.org<http://schema.org/> there is no required properties for a given type, all are optional.

Bioschemas are defining new types and properties for schema.org<http://schema.org/> to be able to say things in a biological context.

To provide some consistency of markup within the life sciences community, Bioschemas are defining profiles over types that state which properties must be used, should be used, and could be used. If we look at the schema.org/Dataset<http://schema.org/Dataset> type there are over 90 properties available to use. The Bioschemas profile over Dataset attempts to bring this down to a more manageable number.
https://bioschemas.org/specifications/Dataset/


This is similar to what Google do for some schema.org<http://schema.org> types such as Dataset, Event, and Course.
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/dataset

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/event

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/course


Within Bioschemas, our philosophy was up to 6 minimal properties, since people are generally lazy. We also aim to link the markup to suitable domain ontologies by recommending ontologies to be used for the values of some properties.

Best regards

Alasdair

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