On Apr 28, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Mark Wilden wrote:
As a point of clarification, the class dsw:IndividualOrganism as we have defined it in DSW does not specify that an instance of the class must actually be an individual organism [...] At one point we considered using the name TaxonomicallyHomogeneousEntity, but that seemed unwieldy.
If that's what it is, then that's what it should be called, in my opinion.
I would completely echo this. Although in some ways the label of a class is arbitrary and what counts is the definition, we communicate meaning through language, and thus how you name something matters. Perhaps we can just try to pool ideas for a better name and see what comes up? -hilmar -- =========================================================== : Hilmar Lapp -:- Durham, NC -:- informatics.nescent.org : ===========================================================