IAO Meeting notes of Sept 22nd 2009

Details

• Convened by: Alan
• Notes by: raw transcript
• Where: Skype
• Attendees: Larry, Melanie, Alan

Agenda

"Vaccine Ontology"

Minutes

raw transcript

We discussed the issue of representing postal addresses to IAO, settling on adding, at least, 'information about a location', and documenting a general pattern for representing information artifacts found in addresses, by using the denotes relation and terms from GEO and GAZ. Larry suggests we can autogenerate a number of useful terms from GEO/GAZ directly.

Some issues and cases: * A sample address that is "Ship number" * Whether addresses denote places or instructions for delivery * Addresses for a purpose (technical support, customer support, etc) * The initial case from Vaccine Ontology: Laboratory Address * Post office boxes - more of a way to get something to someone than a location * A common postal address type (there are a variety) as a collection of different types of entities, some denoting geopolitical regions of various granularities, such entities defined using GEO/GAZ. * Use for specifying what the contents of forms are

Action items

• Add 'information about a location'
• Write some examples of US postal addresses.