IAO Meeting notes of November 3rd 2009

Details

• Convened by: Melanie, Alan
• Notes by: Melanie
• Where: Skype
• Attendees: Larry, Michel, Philippe, William
• Regrets: Alan, Bjoern

Agenda

• http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/detail?id=64 - measurement datum

• http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/detail?id=62 - update "eternalDerived" file

• http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/detail?id=65

  • identifier

Minutes

• http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/detail?id=64

  • measurement datum definition needs to be updated AI for AR - DL Nov 4th

• http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/detail?id=62

  • update "eternalDerived" file AI for MC - DL Nov 4th

• http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/detail?id=65 - identifier

We had a discussion on how to define identifier, label and symbol.

The result summarized: - symbol: denotes something. cannot be decomposed into parts that denote the same thing. Examples: letters, words, chinese characters. - identifier: a symbol that denotes something and is created with the intend to pick out that something from a larger set. Example: Lot number, SSN, Pubmed ID - label: a symbol or textual entity that describes an entity

Some points of the discussion: - identifiers should be linked to their objective: identifier would be a defined class - symbols are unitary information artifact: they cannot be decomposed into parts denoting the same than the symbol as a whole - a label doesn't have to be unitary, it can be decomposed. A label is descriptive, and is not always meant to identify something.

Action items

All: continue discussion. Check with Jonathan for feedback.