Expand definition of software, uses software, and used by

[gneissone]

The domain and range of software, uses software, and used by is currently very narrow.

For example, software/databases/protocols "used by" currently has a range of foaf:Organization. But we want to model people who use software. Can the range be broadened up to foaf:Agent or beyond?

Similarly, "uses software" has a domain of service, which precludes people using software without performing a service. Incidentally, this property has a note "# deprecated" on line 5423 of initialTBoxAnnotations.n3 in the VIVO application distribution, which appears to date back to this commit: vivo-project/VIVO@f786366.

[gneissone]

Okay, I see now that the # deprecated note is there because it is, in fact, a sub-property of deprecatedproperty. So switch that last paragraph to 'uses' and a domain of organization.

[arademaker]

What is the concrete suggestion here? Maybe this issue can be followed by a PR with suggestions of changes in the ontology?

[gneissone]

I'm not sure where the domain and range assertions are being made in the vivo-isf-ontology repo?
We want "uses" (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ERO_0000031) to have a domain that includes foaf:Person and "used by" (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ERO_0000070) to have a range that includes foaf:Person.

[arademaker]

Both properties are not from VIVO-ISF ontology, they are OBO properties (given the IRIs) and I don't think we can change their definitions. We may start replacing OBO with other upper level ontology or creating our own properties and classes with less reuse of others definitions.

[gneissone]

ERO is the eagle-i prefix, which was merged into VIVO. So I think this group is responsible for it? The eagle-i wiki leads back here. Not sure if the process is different with the OBO registered terms or not.