Shortcuts for modeling information about commoncoreontologies

[swartik]

@tmprd,

Let me be sure I understand what you're proposing. Is it to add object properties, defined through property chain axioms, that allow simplifications to graph traversal? There's a precedent for this. See Issue #155.

Can you explain something about your proposal? Consider the triple:

:BobsAgeInYears bfo:0000101 :BobsAgeInformation . # is carrier of at some time

When you use is carrier of at some time, you sometimes need to qualify the triple by describing the temporal interval during which it is true. I don't know whether or not you intended :BobsAgeInYears to be Bob's current age, as opposed to Bob's age at the time the triple is asserted. If you did, that qualification is necessary. (If not, maybe the predicate should be is carrier of at all times.) Putting this particular example aside, it may be tricky to incorporate temporal logic into shortcuts.

[tmprd]

@swartik Thanks for the feedback and context. That's right, I want to add defined object properties to simplify graph traversal.

I used "is carrier of at some time" because I heard that an upcoming version of BFO is dropping the "at some time" part for simplicity (I assume because it's already implied to be occurring at some time, but could be wrong about this). I also noted that RO's "is carrier of" could be used instead, but I'm not sure to what extent RO terms are being reclaimed by BFO or CCO. Would using "is carrier of" be more appropriate here? I do see the need to index a statement about someone's age to a particular time. Anyway, the overall goal here is to make some of these representations more practically useful for data processing systems.

[cameronmore]

I like the direction you're going Tim, I would just add that often we want to be more specific about the aboutness relation, so we might want is carrier of measurement at some time or is carrier of prescription at some time . The information model needs some attention, and it is the first module we should consider updating in a substantial way, so this will help the conversation and effort.