It feels a bit outside the scope of OBO. But I like your idea of making BCO the OBO-ified artefact, and have mappings to DWC (as well as MIxS, NEON, IGSN/Sesar/etc?).
I think your richer version of DWC is useful, but it still feels outside the scope of OBO:
- I don't think the IRIs are correctly formed, is your intent to reuse DWC ones, or to make a new namespace in OBO
- A lot of the terms already appear in existing OBO ontologies: dwc:behavior, dwc:country, dwc:habitat, dwc:lifeStage, dwc:Dataset
- A lot of terms appear to conflict, but represent different concepts than how they are currently used by members of the OBO community; e.g. dwc:pathway, dwc:class
- The modeling seems in conflict with OBO modeling - e.g. dataset is represented as an individual, not a class; there are duplicate IRIs for all concepts, with datatype and object property versions
I fully support the goals of making a semantically richer DWC data dictionary (we both want to do a similar thing for MIxS, along with others like Jie Zheng). But I'm not sure what is gained by registering this product with OBO and making parallel OBO PURLs? Ideally your richer representation could be folded back into the main DWC, but absent that do you lose anything by registering on say
w3id.org and submitting to bioportal? Also is there not a danger in now having *four* URIs for each DWC property ({obo,dwc} x {OP,DP})?
I don't mean to shut this down, I think there is a clear need for OBO-adjacent efforts such as providing semantically enhanced data dictionaries, and OBO provides a lot of the useful technology for doing this, there is a legitimate discussion about extending OBO vs creating a parallel infrastructure (an analogous situation exists for conversions of databases into "ontologies" and knowledge graphs).
I think it would be useful to 'clone' OBO for a broader registry of 'semantic artefacts' that are OBO-adjacent. This would include schemas and data dictionaries in the environmental/diversity sciences (MIxS, NEON, IGSN/Sesar, DWC). A lot of the same technology could be leveraged (e.g. cloned OLS/BioPortal/OntoBee instances - or even overloading the existing ones).