Use cases for NBO

[DitchingIt]

Background

We know some of the original aims for merging the Animal Behavior Ontology (ABO) with the NBO, but things seem to have come off the rails: Leadership has evaporated, there is no paid curation, just occasional 'hacking', some of those originally involved in ABO have gone back to using it 'off-line' instead of NBO, and others who once appeared commited appear to have given up on it. @matentzn is working on a process which should lead to the deprecation of the phenotype branch from NBO. Being realistic, NBO is almost defunct - indeed @cmungall has suggested it might be time to call time on NBO. I remain hopeful that something viable can emerge from NBO.

What next?

@dosumis has suggested collecting use cases before a radical overhaul of NBO. I agree with a proviso: Nothing theoretical and no direct return to the original aims, because they have essentially failed. Starting afresh, what would any potential user realistically want from NBO?

From discussions I have been part of since December 2022, the only real hope I have seen expressed by anyone has been along the lines of:

1. Ethology - ABO approach

Is there any other use case that anyone feels passionate about - not just hope that someone else would do, or possibly use if it was there? Because I think that there would be commitment to work on an ethology-based ontology, IF it had much of the purely human or invisible stuff stripped out.

Any thoughts?