Updates
Updates, issues, questions from implementation sites – what are your most urgent priorities for the ontology for version 1.6?
Report on CTSAconnect meetings in Portland last week
Brian Lowe met for three days last week with the ontology team at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), our esteemed colleagues from the eagle-i project for tracking research resources. He'll have a brief report on future directions for the VIVO and eagle-i ontologies as an integrated semantic framework (ISF). The project has a website at http://ctsaconnect.org.
Issues to discuss
Modeling both English and Dutch academic titles – should the VIVO ontology have generic Researcher and Teacher classes that could then have either labels in alternative languages or national extensions
- For instance, in VIVO you would find a class "Researcher" with the dutch label "onderzoeker" and the french one "chercheur" but nothing more specific. Then, a French extension to VIVO (hosted by some French institution) would create a subclass "MDC" to "Researcher" and label it "Maitre de conference", with eventually a close match to another class which defines "Assistant professor" - the two are close enough but not really equivalent. Following the same idea, a Dutch ontology would contain a class "UD" which is subclassed from "Researcher" and has labels in different languages.
- From the data consumer side, having a core ontology and several local ones allows to easily aggregate on specific level within a country and on more abstract levels between countries. E.g. in the Netherlands, everyone agrees on what an Universitair Docent is. Between France, the Netherlands and the US, everyone would agree on saying that someone is a researcher. VIVO could also contain another core concept "Teacher". Somebody doing both research and teaching would be an instance of both.
One direction that our work with OHSU is taking is will likely reduce, not expand, the number of VIVO subclasses of Person, and instead rely more on Position (a long-standing status usually associated with employment) and Role (as realized by participation in a temporally-defined Process). We have a teacher role and researcher role already for dealing with specific roles in courses or on grants, but this discussion seems to be more about people's designated status (more like a Position).
Later today – special work session on representing humanities activities
Meeting notes and follow-on tasks: Humanities Ontology
At the request of the Duke and Brown VIVO implementation teams we are having a work session on modeling things like acting, archives and portfolios, CD recordings and liner notes, catalogs and catalog essays, choreography collections, commissions, compositions and performances of those compositions, architectural design projects, conducting, directing, dramaturgy, exhibitions, exhibition series, festival participation, film, graphic design, group shows, guest teaching, installations, master classes, photography, prints, public lectures, radio broadcasts, radio interviews, puppetry, scene design, sculptures, solo performances, workshops. Please join if you're interested.
Ontology workshop in Newfoundland next summer
Lisa Charlong of the Memorial University of Newfoundland is exploring hosting a workshop on using a Knowledge Brokering/Networking Ontology in the university context for outreach and knowledge brokering/mobilization activities, and expects both subject matter experts and IT persons to attend. Look for more information in the new year.
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