Hi Marco et al.,
It is also possible that a person can have multiple roles (e.g.,
researcher and teacher). Are there standard vocabularies that we can use
to describe roles, for example? There might be a temporal aspect as
well. For example, a person at one point was a postdoc but later became
a professor. If this is taken into account, we can ask questions like
what is the most recent role(s) a person has. This may somewhat relates
to how we should model a paitent/subject involved in a longitudinal
studies. Besides relations (how persons relate to each other), we might
also want to think about how persons are grouped for different
basic/clinical research purposes. For examples, panels vs. cohorts,
population samples vs. pedigrees, etc... This might have been
thought/discussed about by other people. I may just reignite such
thought and discussion.
Cheers,
-Kei
Marco Brandizi wrote:
kei cheung wrote:
Based on my limited experience, a person in the life science and
healthcare context can be considered as a subject or patient (which
can be a subclass of person). Of course, there are other roles a
person can play (e.g., doctors, researchers, and authors). For
genetic studies, a group of subjects/indviduals may be a
family/pedigree. In this case, relationships among these family
members may include Father_of, Mother_of, Child_of, etc. Other types
Hi Kei,
In addition, I think there is another side as well: science community
people, having a role (student, teacher, director of), relations with
fields of study ( immunologist, studies TLR signalling), relations with
events and scientific production ( has published, has organized
conference ), relations with other people ( works with, supervisor of,
... ).
I vaguely remember at least one similar case of ontology, does anyone
have further details?
Cheers.
