Re: [Obi-devel] Funding organizations (was - substituting for Alan)

[Trish Whetzel]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Alan Ruttenberg <alanrut...@gmail.com> wrote:

 

The question on funding organizations is whether we consider them in
scope and should therefore assign ids for them. In order to avoid
issues around potential reasoning problems I suggest that they
initially be placed in an imported file. We can deal with the question
of how to package them for release
at another time. I can create the file if we agree they are in scope.

-Alan

If the decision is that funding organizations are out of the scope of OBI, they may be in scope of BRO.  

Trish

[Melissa Haendel]

Hi,

From the eagle-i perspective, virtually any organization can fund a research project, training program etc. Would it make more sense to define funding organization as is_a organization that has a funding_role?

See also this related request:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2894859&group_id=177891&atid=886178

Which also discusses delineating research labs from service labs based on their roles.

Thanks,

Melissa

[Nancy Whelan]

I vote for including funding agencies.

Nancy

[Alan Ruttenberg]

It would be helpful to check whether the funding agencies are listed
at the medline organizations pages, as If they are, they are already
included in the prototype I sent around.

Fwiw there seems to be consensus that having the organizations as a
standalone artifact is desirable, since it serves a number of distinct
communities.

-Alan

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