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What is the purpose of any ontology improvement? What kinds of improvements are there? Why would any improvements be needed? What impacts would ontology changes have on the community? How can we know the impact of any particular ontology change?
If we were great at ontology improvement, what form would that greatness take? What would be included? Can you picture a world in which we were great at ontological improvement? What would that world look like?
How would we get from where we are now to what we want? What would we do first?
Deliverables
- A description description of the scope of VIVO and its ontologies in content & quality. In order to ensure that the scope is well-defined, it might help to collect local ontology extensions from individual implementations and see if there is a common need that VIVO doesn't address.
- Develop a process for reporting ontology needs. Currently there are several places this might be done. We should have a place that is sufficient for the work and can be shared broadly.
- Make Make two ontology changes (one relatively easy, and one that would require a change in the software) and then deliver a technical plan and a communication plan to support these changes.
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