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Are vivo:Location and vcard:Location redundant? #68

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hauschke opened this issue Nov 22, 2024 · 1 comment
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Are vivo:Location and vcard:Location redundant? #68

hauschke opened this issue Nov 22, 2024 · 1 comment

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@hauschke
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What is the motivation for your change request?
We have two classes for :location:
https://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#Location:

:Location a owl:Class ;
    rdfs:label "Location"@en ;
    rdfs:comment "An object representing a named geographical place"@en ;
    rdfs:isDefinedBy <http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns> ;
    rdfs:subClassOf :Kind ;
    owl:disjointWith :Organization .

http://vivoweb.org/ontology/core#Location:

@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix obo: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<http://vivoweb.org/ontology/core#Location>
  a owl:Class ;
  rdfs:label "Location"@en ;
  rdfs:subClassOf <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000006> ;
  obo:IAO_0000112 "It's anticipated that the subclasses will be used when classifying items. And, all locations can be viewable via this class."^^xsd:string, "Use subclasses of core:Location when classsifying items."^^xsd:string ;
  obo:IAO_0000115 "Top level of all location classes."^^xsd:string .

It seems to be clear that vivo:Location is talking about geographical places. If this is the case, we might want to deprecate and finally remove one of those classes.

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  1. if the classes are redundant,
  2. and if yes, which one to keep.
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tawahle commented Nov 27, 2024

There are no individuals assigned to vcard:Location in a standard VIVO, whereas there are plenty of individuals assigned to the subclasses of core:Location. Therefore, I would suggest to keep core:Location.

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