Menu
▾
▴
#143 Population
The definition of population is to restrictive, it either needs to be renamed organism_population or re-defined to something like "The set of individuals, items, or data from which a statistical sample is taken, to fit better with the new definition of specimen - or both options. The generic population, with subclass organism_population
James to check if this is blocker for him.
Ok, not a blocker, let's keep it at priority 5 for now then.
James
Some comments from OGMS group, raised priority. comments are below:
As per Albert's note (see http://code.google.com/p/ogms/issues/detail?id=33\)
(1) organism populations exist even if no one counts or samples them
(although I understand why you want to say this for OBI)...there is a
population of people with swine flu distinct from the sampled
population.
(2) I am a member of the population of the USA, but I can be living
overseas and still be considered a member of that population
(3) there may not be well defined taxonomic classes for certain
bacteria (where at best we can only cluster them into clonal complexes)
(4) [minor issue] 'individuals' may be too broad
(5) [minor issue] how does 'particular site' differ from 'particular
area' (in terms of spatial regions)
population = a set of individuals of the same class in a defined area (spacial temporal region or whatever the BFO whim is this month)
organism_population is a population where the class is "organism"
Discusse on Feb 8, 2016 call
We will import PCO population, see tracker:
https://sourceforge.net/p/obi/obi-terms/646