Damion Dooley

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For now we won't precompose "[x] (whole or parts)" for every taxon, we'll just add the term as the need arises. But we need to formalize the definition to allow...

This diagram gets at relationship between a sample and the FoodOn product category: In red dotted lines show there is a choice of what one can type a sample as,...

Updated diagram. I was thinking we could be a bit stronger than "has related synonym" apple. How about "has broad synonym" apple ?

This would allow us to attach synonyms like "granny smith apple" consistently as shown below. But an alternative could be to say "**An apple**" is exact synonym for "apple (whole,...

So I was toying with attaching an "an apple" phrase as an attempt to send a message to users and/or create a computational hook to show which specific concept most...

Alternately, we encourage a linguistic parsing. "an" => whole, "apple" => apple (whole or parts). "an apple" maybe is a linguistic transform: whole + "apple (whole or parts)" => look...

As well, items containing "pastry" need subclassing to that, but this depends on wheat distinction too.

FoodOn has minted ids for this model. A remaining question is whether we really need "step specificaiton" or if we can make do with IAO "action specification"? The IAO term...

If in fact the action specification and step specification are the same, or if action specification can take on what we want to do with step specification, then I need...

But this means we no longer mention "step specification" in the ontology, except as a synonym for action specification.