Date

27 Mar 2017

Webex link is here.

Attendees

• Graham Triggs

• Mike Conlon

• Brian Lowe

• Christian Hauschke

• Damaris Murry
• DJ Lee
• Muhammad Javed
• Juliane Schneider
• Marijane White
• Tenille Johnson
• Violeta Ilik

Goals

• Create a domain definition for the VIVO ontology
• Make an ontology change - that is expected to be no / low impact; e.g. spelling correction, additional class; doesn't involve a change in the VIVO software
• Make an ontology change where there is a software change (preferably a small change)
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Discussion items

Notes

• What is the domain of the VIVO ontologies
  • VIVO wants to be brand when it thinks about scholarship
  • Original development - not particularly strong in the arts
  • Modular ontology would allow people to turn on / off the modules that they are interested in
  • Modules should be concepts - may be concepts that are only applicable in a local domain
  • When we say scholarship, do we also include museums? - yes
  • OpenRIF, when discussing is "scholarship" exclusionary, settled on the word "expertise"
  • Should it be broadened to experts such as IT personnel, who are working in a scholarly centre, but not doing research?
  • Do we care about whether a publication was part of a grant, project, etc.?
  • Can there be an ontology around research funding? CASRAI has a lot of terms in the vocabulary that aren't suitable for VIVO.

EuroCRIS has a model for research funding See http://www.sparontologies.net/ontologies/frapo/source.html#d4e3103)

• Some ontological errors

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/976depqlqrnah65/ontologyErrors.docx?dl=0  

• Ontological change
  • Little to no impact vs significant community impact
  • Little to no impact
    • Inclusion of new class
    • Changing labels
    • Metadata about the ontology - e.g. attribution of ontology
    • "Rare" ontology items - things that aren't used commonly. Can we be certain?
  • Structural vs non-structural
    • Adding relationships is a semantic change
    • When can we add hierarchical assertions - a parent that we didn't have before?
    • What if something is no longer a skos:Concept and becomes a BFO class?
    • Moving vcards to people? Inconsistency in how these are handled across systems.
  • Touching the author list is a high impact change!
  • Name changes aren't handled at all in VIVO.
  • vcards relate to relationships, not meant to be a replacement for authors.
  • Do a survey to see what is used?

Links:

https://vivo.tib.eu/fis/display/publ201638668543

Spin off companies: http://www.sparontologies.net/ontologies/frapo/source.html#d4e3103)

Marijane's notes: https://github.com/openrif/vivo-isf-ontology/wiki/20170327-Ontology-Change-Improvement-Call

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