'Collection of Organisms'

Assessment:

It is probably the case that PCO_0000000 and OMRSE_00000022 are intended to model the same entities. 

They are subClasses of the same BFO1.1 class (Object Aggregate). 

The annotations from both classes state that the members of the collection can be heterogeneous with respect to taxonomic class.

Proposal:

• obsolete OMRSE_00000022
• Import PCO_0000000
• add the following equivalence class
• make 'collection of humans' OMRSE_00000023 a subclass of PCO_0000000
  
  • is-aggreate-of min 2 organism(OBI_0100026) and is-aggregate-of only organism(OBI_0100026)

Note that PCO uses organism from CARO, OMRSE uses organism from OBI.  PCO does not use 'organism' for any restrictions of 'group of organism', so this will not create any computational problems.

obo/pco.owl

obo/PCO_0000000

obo/OMRSE_00000022

obo/OMRSE_00000022

 subClassOf rdf:resource="http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/snap#ObjectAggregate"/>

<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="&snap;ObjectAggregate"/>

  (xmlns:snap="http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/snap#")

PCO

    URI - http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PCO_0000000
    label - collection of organisms
 subClassOf rdf:resource="http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/snap#ObjectAggregate"/>
        <obo:IAO_0000115 xml:lang="en">A material entity that consists of two or more organisms, viruses, or viroids.</obo:IAO_0000115>
        <obo:IAO_0000112>Examples include: population, community, species (meaning the collection of organisms that makes up a species, not the taxonomic rank), and family.</obo:IAO_0000112>
        <rdfs:comment>May be of the same or different species.</rdfs:comment>
        <obo:IAO_0000118>group of organism</obo:IAO_0000118>
        <obo:IAO_0000118>organism collection</obo:IAO_0000118>
        <obo:IAO_0000114 rdf:resource="&obo;IAO_0000125"/>
    </owl:Class>

OMRSE

    <!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OMRSE_00000022 -->

    <owl:Class rdf:about="&obo;OMRSE_00000022">
        <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">collection of organisms</rdfs:label>
        <IAO_0000115 xml:lang="en">An object aggregate of organisms.</IAO_0000115>
        <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">Any arbitrary collection of organisms.  They need not be of the same taxonomic class.  </rdfs:comment>
    </owl:Class>

D-ACTS

    <!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OMRSE_00000022 -->

    <owl:Class rdf:about="&obo;OMRSE_00000022">
        <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">collection of organisms</rdfs:label>
        <owl:equivalentClass>
            <owl:Restriction>
                <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&obo;OMRSE_00000020"/>
                <owl:someValuesFrom rdf:resource="&obo;OBI_0100026"/>
            </owl:Restriction>
        </owl:equivalentClass>
        <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="&snap;ObjectAggregate"/>
        <obo:IAO_0000115 xml:lang="en">An object aggregate of organisms.</obo:IAO_0000115>
        <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">Any arbitrary collection of organisms.  They need not be of the same taxonomic class.  </rdfs:comment>
    </owl:Class>

Population

Assessment:

We do not currently have a class that represents populations in OMRSE.  As the comment below notes, there are many classes that are intended to model the class of populations in the OBO ontologies.

Proposal

To date we do not have any social entities in OMRSE that requires this class for a logical restriction. I suggest we do not import it into OMRSE.  If we do need it later, we can perform an in depth analysis of of the various classes that are available.

obo/pco.owl

obo/PCO_0000018

 <!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PCO_0000001 -->

    <owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PCO_0000001">
        <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">population</rdfs:label>
        <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PCO_0000018"/>
        <obo:IAO_0000115 xml:lang="en">A collection of organisms, all of the same species, that live in the same place.</obo:IAO_0000115>
        <obo:IAO_0000119>ISBN:0878932739</obo:IAO_0000119>
        <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">It is sometimes difficult to define the physical boundaries of a population. In the case of sexually reproducing organisms, the individuals within a population have the potential to reproduce with one another during the course of their lifetimes. &apos;Community&apos;, as often used to describe a group of humans, is a type of population. Classes for population already  exist in IDO (&apos;organism population&apos;, IDO_0000509) and OBI (&apos;population&apos;, OBI_0000181). The definitions should be standardized across ontologies and only one term used.</rdfs:comment>
        <obo:IAO_0000116 xml:lang="en">Still uncertain if this should include every organism of a species living in an area or any subset of them. For now make this a general term (unspecified) and then subclasses can be more specific.</obo:IAO_0000116>
        <obo:IAO_0000114 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000125"/>
    </owl:Class>