from the 2013-02-20 VIVO Ontology Call:
Research area/interest and description (JHU) - Some faculty would like to separate expertise from research interest, and have description associated with each research area. For a faculty with several research areas, vivo:researchOverview need be sliced for consumption by a project website, which only display description of one or two research areas.
In a brief discussion on the 2013-02-06 VIVO Ontology Call, we ascertained that the descriptions of research interests need to be separate entities linked to both the person and the research area, a concept typically from a controlled vocabulary, that may be linked to by several people and/or organizations or projects. This is not a role but more of an annotation on the connection between the person and the research area or topic.
In continuing the discussion on this call, Brian mentioned a recent focus by the W3C on support for annotations via the http://openannotation.org/spec/core – it seems more straightforward than reification (giving an RDF statement its own URI and adding multiple additional statements about that statement) and appears to be intended for a similar purpose (applying terminology to resources) to what Jing describes as the use case at Hopkins.
Use cases
Via email 9/2013 – a researcher for the Ministry of Finance in France is exploring using VIVO to manage semantic data on long video clips. By integrating with open annotations, users will be able to annotate the video using a SPARQL endpoint.
