Hi All,<br>
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Gregor and I are having a discussion over what 'concept' means.<br>
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Gregor said: Roger, I suggest, you replace unqualified &quot;concept&quot; with
something that qualifies what kind of concept you mean. If I read
concept I think of a taxon concept or descriptive concept (flower,
color, blue, frequently) but not of the kind of concepts you mean (I
would say &quot;data elements&quot; for these, but I leave it to you. This was
the source of the major misunderstanding about Management system and
data. Note that both taxon and descriptive concepts have and need
ontology information, even if not expressed in RDF - so just saying
&quot;ontology concepts&quot; would not be very clear I believe. <br>
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I know TAPIR and BioCASE use concepts to mean element or attribute and
believe DwC do as well. I thought I was on clear ground here in using
it in the context of ontologies.<br>
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What word other than 'concept' can I use to describe a thing in an ontology i.e. a class, property, attribute whatever.<br>
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Any suggestions,<br>
<br>
Roger<br>
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