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[i] BFO:0000146 ! two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary
[i] ENVO:00000486 ! shoreline
[i] ENVO:01001544 ! two-dimensional fiat ice surface
[i] BFO:0000006 ! spatial region
[i] ENVO:03501369 ! seam surface
[i] BFO:0000040 ! material entity
[i] BFO:0000024 ! fiat object part
[i] ENVO:00010483 ! environmental material
[i] ENVO:01000813 ! astronomical body part
[i] BFO:0000027 ! object aggregate
[i] ENVO:01001564 ! rain
[i] ENVO:03400009 ! falling sleet
[i] ENVO:03400013 ! falling snow
[i] ENVO:03501314 ! food production environmental monitoring zone 1
[i] ENVO:03501315 ! food production environmental monitoring zone 2
[i] ENVO:03501316 ! food production environmental monitoring zone 3
[i] ENVO:03501317 ! food production environmental monitoring zone 4
[i] BFO:0000030 ! object
[i] ENVO:00010358 ! fomite
[i] ENVO:01000498 ! pole
[i] ENVO:01000804 ! astronomical object
[i] ENVO:01001008 ! meteor
[i] ENVO:01001686 ! mass of environmental material
[i] CHEBI:24431 ! chemical entity
[i] CHEBI:36342 ! subatomic particle
[i] ENVO:00003074 ! manufactured product
[i] ENVO:01000281 ! layer
[i] ENVO:01001813 ! construction
[i] ENVO:03500005 ! anthropogenic litter
[i] NCBITaxon:1 ! root
[i] OBI:0000047 ! processed material
[i] OBI:0100026 ! organism
[i] PCO:0000031 ! organismal entity
[i] PO:0025131 ! plant anatomical entity
[i] RO:0002577 ! system
[i] UBERON:0000465 ! material anatomical entity
From a formal ontological perspective there is nothing inherently wrong here, but this has consequences for the usability of ENVO that need to be explored. We might expect this makes ENVO harder to use and contribute to by domain scientists, but this is something we can empirically investigate. If this turns out to be the case then we can explore some different approaches:
adding more documentation to explain things to non-ontologists
adding layers to ontology browsers like OLS that make it easier to navigate
creating an application ontology layer, perhaps employing the Schulz conflation pattern that allows us to group things in more domain scientist friendly ways
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Most OBO ontologies typically branch off of a handful of BFO tips - ENVO makes user of a number of different ones:
We can see the terms hanging off the tips here
From a formal ontological perspective there is nothing inherently wrong here, but this has consequences for the usability of ENVO that need to be explored. We might expect this makes ENVO harder to use and contribute to by domain scientists, but this is something we can empirically investigate. If this turns out to be the case then we can explore some different approaches:
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: