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| + | One of their goals is to develop a sematic web application that would allow users to access ecological datasets. To do this they are developing a "functional trait ontology." Although the ultimate goal is to include all organisms, they are currently focusing on plants, because there are far more plant trait databases. Plant plant functional traits includes plant entities (the physical parts of the plant = plant structures) and plant characteristics (direct or derived measurements made by ecologists/biologists of plant entities). | ||
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| + | They are well aware of the PO and TO, but decided to develope their own ontologies for several reasons. For plant characteristics, they found that many of the terms were too specific to the organism or specific experimental procedures, and they needed many new characteristics that were appropriate for ecologists. All of the terms in their plant entity ontology come from the PO plant structure. They have run into many of the same problems we dealt with for upper level structures (like where to classify terms or how to define upper level terms), and would be quite happy to use the solutions that we are working out. They do not need the level of detail that the PO has, since ecologists generally study a limited set of structures, and they would probably want to use a subset of PO terms. They are less concerned with is_a relationships than part_of relationships. | ||
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| + | They would like to evaluate a newer version of the PO to see if the structure will work for them. If so, they will probably just adopt the PO, rather than have their own ontology. | ||
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| + | Ramona gave them Pankaj and Laurel's names, and they said they would like to get in touch with Pankaj later, after returning from an NCEAS working group. | ||
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One of their goals is to develop a sematic web application that would allow users to access ecological datasets. To do this they are developing a "functional trait ontology." Although the ultimate goal is to include all organisms, they are currently focusing on plants, because there are far more plant trait databases. Plant plant functional traits includes plant entities (the physical parts of the plant = plant structures) and plant characteristics (direct or derived measurements made by ecologists/biologists of plant entities).
They are well aware of the PO and TO, but decided to develope their own ontologies for several reasons. For plant characteristics, they found that many of the terms were too specific to the organism or specific experimental procedures, and they needed many new characteristics that were appropriate for ecologists. All of the terms in their plant entity ontology come from the PO plant structure. They have run into many of the same problems we dealt with for upper level structures (like where to classify terms or how to define upper level terms), and would be quite happy to use the solutions that we are working out. They do not need the level of detail that the PO has, since ecologists generally study a limited set of structures, and they would probably want to use a subset of PO terms. They are less concerned with is_a relationships than part_of relationships.
They would like to evaluate a newer version of the PO to see if the structure will work for them. If so, they will probably just adopt the PO, rather than have their own ontology.
Ramona gave them Pankaj and Laurel's names, and they said they would like to get in touch with Pankaj later, after returning from an NCEAS working group.
