openrif/contribution-ontology

This repository is retired. Formerly a repository for representation of a person's role in research processes and outputs

contribution-ontology's Issues

Accommodate existing identification systems, such as ORCID for individuals

We should have a flexible and extensible way to identify entities in a stable way, especially the ones that can receive credit.

Add role(s) for clinical trials

Not sure what these might be, just know that we need them. Can they be derived from the clinical trials content in the eagle-i ontology?

Term request for 'funder role'

Support for transitive credit

The model has to support credit transitively. This could include one process being a part of another process, one process output being an input of another process that then has its own output, etc.

CRediT

CRediT
An open standard for expressing roles intrinsic to research
http://credit.casrai.org/proposed-taxonomy/

Annotate the contribution roles with definitions and tidy up the ontology.

Each class in the CRO should have an obo:definition.

We should take this as an opportunity to review the roles for inclusion or exclusion in the ontology, review names for clarity, and review the appropriateness of the current hierarchical arrangement of the ontology.

We might consider writing definitions with explicit references to their parent classes as a means to some of these ends. For example, a possible definition for the Technical Writing Role could be "A Software Development Role that involves producing documentation of software systems for a variety of audiences, including but not limited to end users and system administrators." This definition should force some reflection: is Technical Writing really a Software Development role? Might the parent class be called "Software Role" instead, as it is in the Credit Taxonomy? Is Software Development Role actually a subclass of a more general Software Role, or perhaps an alternate term for Software Engineering Role or Computer Programming Role? etc.

If we cannot devise a clear definition for a role that does not currently have one, we might take that as a sign that the role should be removed from the ontology.

Classes which currently lack definitions:

• Documentation Role
• Graphic Design Role
• Marketing Role
• Networking Facilitation Role (what was this, again?)
• Website Development Role
• Data Role
• Data Aggregation Role
• Statistical Data Analysis Role
• Data Collection Role (how is this distinct from data aggregation?)
• Metadata Application Role (application?)
• Data Integration Role
• Data Modeling Role
• Data Quality Assurance Role
• Data Visualization Role (may need to disambiguate this with Figure Development Role, which currently maps to the Credit Taxonomy's Visualization term. I think this one might map better.)
• Educational Role (why not "Education")?
• Educational Material Development Role
• Educational Program Development Role
• Teaching Role
• Information Technology Systems Role
• Hardware Systems Role
• Software Systems Role
• Database Administrator Role
• System Administrator Role
• Intellectual Property Advisor Role
• Guideline Development Role
• Protocol Creation Role
• Standard Operating Procedure Development Role
• Technique Development Role
• Policy Development Role
• Archivist Role
• Conservator Role
• Digital Preservation Role
• Research Instrumentation Role
• Device Development Role
• Equipment Technician Role
• Survey and Questionnaire Role

Classes with definitions that need improvement:

• Contribution Role: needs to be generalized beyond the sciences, lest we exclude scholars that don't consider themselves scientists.

Add references to the Credit Taxonomy

The roles that map to the Credit Taxonomy need to be annotated as such.
What annotation property do we use for this?

Review CRediT roles

http://credit.casrai.org/#taxis
need to understand how these relate to relationships or roles in VIVO-ISF.
@ShahimEssaid lets discuss.

Different types of entities can get credit

Such as people, groups, organizations, etc.

Add Biocuration Role

As subclass of Data Curation Role?

Term request for 'maintainer role'

PROV-O

The W3C standard:
http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-overview/

Slides:
http://www.slideshare.net/ivan_herman/the-w3c-prov-vocabulary

Add Content Development Role

Suggested in email by Holly Falk Krzesinski.

Add Ontology Developer role

We currently have Data Standards Developer Role, which I don't think is quite the same thing.

Researcher perspectives on attribution, contributorship and new forms of scholarly communication

See: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/attribution_workshop/files/researcher_perspectives_on_attribution_contributorship_and_new_0.pdf

Support for different kinds of scholarly products

The model has to support various types of scholarly products by being general enough to be extensible for different domain.