Date
Attendees
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
| Time | Item | Who | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 min | Domain definition | What is the domain of the VIVO ontologies? | |
| 30 min | Ontology impacts | What is the range of ontology impacts, how do we know which changes have what impact on sites? |
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
