Ontology: Funding subclasses need "funding" suffix and funding a reclassification
Description of the issue
Right now the funding subclasses are private and public, which are concepts used more widely than just in funding.
Also Funding is a subclass of SoftwareMaintenance, it needs a new place.
SoftwareMaintenance should then be discussed too as it then has no subclasses and no definition ans is no information content entity.
Ideas of solution
Rename subclasses to: PrivateFunding, PublicFunding
new defs for all
Workflow checklist
- [ ] I discussed the issue with someone else than me before working on a solution
- [ ] I already read the latest version of the workflow for this repository
- [ ] The goal of this ontology is clear to me
I am aware that
- [ ] every entry in the ontology should have an annotation
- [ ] classes should arise from concepts rather than from words
- [ ] class or property names should follow the UpperCamelCase
akleinau
All 18 comments
Shouldn't funding be part of oeo-social istead of oeo-model?
Classify as process?
stap-m
on 22 Apr 2020
Also a term to leave out for the release?
stap-m
on 22 Apr 2020
yes I agree
akleinau
on 22 Apr 2020
Funding is a relation between one or many orginisations or even single persons. It should be modelled as a object relation e.g. has_funding_source.
MGlauer
on 1 Jul 2020
There may be different kinds of Funding e.g. Contract work or Grant.
MGlauer
on 1 Jul 2020
Open questions: Is the "privateness" dependent on the participants? What happens if an organisation changes its status?
MGlauer
on 1 Jul 2020
so you propose to re-implement funding as a relation instead of a class, which makes sense. We can't annotate relations so private and public would be sub-relations has_private_funding_source and has_public_funding_source. Or is private and public just a property of the funding organisation and not the relation?
akleinau
on 6 Jul 2020
As far as I understand it, being private or public is a property of the participants. By now, we already have implemented has funding source, so is there anything left to do regarding this issue?
sfluegel05
on 10 Sep 2020
As far as I understand it, being private or public is a property of the participants. By now, we already have implemented
has funding source, so is there anything left to do regarding this issue?
we have the choice between implementing private and public as types of organisations or as general terms
akleinau
on 16 Sep 2020
I am in favour of implementing private and public as general terms. There are many things can be private or public apart from organizations (e.g. information content entities or material entities).
I would classify them as qualities, maybe under a common parent class like accessibility. My suggestions for definitions:
_Accessibility is a quality of an entity that indicates the level of restriction for this entity or activities related to it._
_Private is an accessibility where the entity is restricted to a particular person or group of persons._
_Public is an accessibility where the entity is not strongly restricted but accessible to a wide group of people or everyone._
sfluegel05
on 22 Sep 2020
This "level of restriction" works when you talk about public or private instagram accounts, for example, who has access to it. If we define public and private generically we also have to look at public and private institutions, here the difference is more who owns it, the state or not. Public and private financiation again is less about the money and more about who owns the company that gives the money. Maybe these terms are so over used that a generic definition is simply to hard to find.
When looking at these difference I would prefer to include instead subclasses like "public organisation" and "private organisation" etc?
akleinau
on 7 Oct 2020
That makes sense. Do you have ideas for definitions of these classes?
sfluegel05
on 7 Oct 2020
My suggestions:
private organization: _A private organization is an organization that is not operated by a profit or a public body. It includes all businesses that are for-profit that are not government owned or operated._ (source)public organization: _A public organization is a state-run organization. It is government-controlled and is paid for by public taxation._ (source)
sfluegel05
on 26 Oct 2020
It is of interest whether a study was payed by public or private funds. Is this really the same question as whether the purchaser is a public or private organisation?
stap-m
on 28 Oct 2020
Do your "thumbs up" like the question or answer the question with "yes"?
stap-m
on 29 Oct 2020
Thumbs up as you gave the right question. I am not completely sure, but I think we currently need this public/private info only for the study.
l-emele
on 29 Oct 2020
Thumbs up because it is an important question and I don't have an answer.
sfluegel05
on 29 Oct 2020
Consensus from OEO Dev meeting 18:
- We don't need a class
funding. The relationhas funding sourceis sufficient and more flexible. - New subclasses of
sponsor:
funder: _A funder is a sponsor that supports by giving money._private funder: _A private funder is a funder that gives private money._public funder: _A public funder is a funder that gives public money._
- @christian-rli will implement these.
l-emele
on 10 Jun 2021
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It is of interest whether a study was payed by public or private funds. Is this really the same question as whether the purchaser is a public or private organisation?