Agenda & Notes

• Update on the release of VIVO Ontology 1.7.0 - Brian Lowe / Christian Hauschke 
  
  • https://github.com/vivo-ontologies/vivo-ontology/releases/tag/vivo-ontology-1.7.0 has been released on 28 Feb 2024 
• Documentation of the release process:
  
  
  • • Click on Release a version 
    • Release title: ontology-title-version, example: vivo-ontology-1.7.0
    • Choose a tag, example vivo-ontology-1.7.0
    • Add release notes
    • Publish release
  • Notes: "Generate release notes" has to be investigated. 
• Review process in vivo-ontologies
  • values in different natural languages are treated equally for the review process 
  • Simplified version of the software review process
    • regular PRs require 2 people to review
      • all changes that might have impact on reasoning: e.g. changes on axioms
      • updating imports 
      • deprecations
      • changes of primary labels
      • adding, updating or removing individuals
      • changes in types (integer, float etc.)
    • minor PRs require only 1 person to review
      • all changes that have no impact on reasoning (except for primary labels, as mentioned above)
        
      • typos etc.
  • A PR template for github is needed.
  • Decision: This is accepted for the beginning. It will be documented in the wiki. In the beginning, PRs should be discussed in the Ontology IG before merging.
• Alignment of VIVO ontology development with VIVO software development 
  
  • Q: Mechanisms to track changes / dependencies on the ontology are missing in the software. How can we update the ontology if we do not know what will break.
  • Discussion: Do we need VIVO-internal mechanisms to check for dependencies with the ontology.
    • Define import configurations
    • Ontology validation in VIVO: 
      • consistency with other existing ontologies
        
      • implementation dependencies on ontologies
    • Functionality to update already existing ontologies in VIVO runtime
      • Manually uploading new ontology version
        
      • With lookups to ontology providers
        
    • Improve current VIVO ontology editor

Ideas for future meetings

• Instances in the VIVO Ontology
• Countries (FAO)

To Do

• create issue for updating language tags in the ontology