Thursday, January 10, 2019, 10 AM US Eastern Time
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Attendees
- Anna Kasprzik
- Brian Lowe
- Violeta Ilik
- Sonja Schulze
- Christian Hauschke
- Mike Conlon
- Marijane White
- Don Elsborg
Agenda
- Updates, intros, review agenda
- Ontology licenses See http://bit.ly/2TDpqnl
- Change Process – draft here: http://bit.ly/2TAaqXg
- Identifiers – proposal is here: http://bit.ly/2wEyy17
- Some background from RDA is here: https://www.rd-alliance.org/system/files/PID-report_v6.1_2017-12-13_final.pdf
- discussion
- next steps
- December 3 sprint
- New subClasses for items asserted to be skos:Concept.
- Administrative Unit
- Future agenda items
- Language skills
- Projects and Grants
- Application ontology
- Research object
Notes
Ontology licensing -- everyone feel free to pitch in
Change process
We never shared this with the rest of the VIVO community
Is it stale, given the active developer IG?
Need to review in ontology meeting
Ontology and annotation as “configuration” of the application
People are concerned about ontologies. Le't ask them via Slack poll. Christian volunteered to do this.
Marijane as a guest speaker at development regarding ontology
Steps for change process
Review here
Discuss/review with developers -- MJW offered to present to developers
Discuss review with governance
Identifiers
Several different use cases (see document)
Don - with identifiers as object properties, can we assign attributes to them that describe their nature. For example does the target url of the identifier render rdf? This might allow developers to code against it.
Mike - Yes. Must be mindful to separate actual real world attributes vs. display/developer type of attributes (annotations)
Following discussion, the group agreed to prioritize the change management process and continue to discuss the need for changing identifiers.
Open tickets
Jira 1287 -- Assigning new parent classes to five entities currently with parent class skos:Concept. The result is an application that appears to work as before, but no longer lists these entities in search results for concepts (a highly desirable operational result). Need reviewers. Don Elsborg offered to review
Jira 1612 - what is an AdministrativeUnit - lot’s of discussion around this. Christian noted this is very important to German academic institutions. Zentrale Einheiten.
Is this distinguishable from Administrative Department (which also has not yet been added to VIVO, but perhaps is much clearer such as IT, Purchasing, Office of the President. VIVO currently has Department with sub-class AcademicDepartment, but no corresponding subclass AdministrativeDepartment.
Individuals in the AdministrativeUnit class are intended to be “place holders” on org charts -- in some org charts we need to be able to say “these orgs are part of that administrative unit and that administrative unit is part of something else” even when the administrative unit has little that indicates it *is* as organization -- no legal standing, no leader, no budget, no employees. What *is* such a thing.
Can we have some guidelines regarding when we might add new sub-classes?
“Administrative Unit” is heavily loaded terminology and might not be a good choice for this class.
Distinguish from Virtual organization (or not?). A virtual organization is often used to describe adhoc collections of people who come together for research purposes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_organization
Action Items
- In Progress or Review Ontology Issues
Open Ontology Issues
