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layout: principle | ||
id: fp-011-locus-of-authority | ||
title: locus of authority | ||
title: locus of authority / contact person | ||
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Principle Name | ||
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locus of authority | ||
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Details | ||
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There should be a single person who is responsible for the ontology, for | ||
ensuring continued maintenance in light of scientific advance and prompt | ||
response to user feedback, Contact information for this person should be | ||
provided on the ontology website, and listed in the [OBO Library | ||
Metadata File](OBO Library Metadata File "wikilink"). | ||
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There should be a single person (perhaps the same person) who is | ||
responsible for liaison between the ontology developers and the OBO | ||
Foundry coordinating editors. | ||
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Date Accepted | ||
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- ?? | ||
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Examples | ||
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Counter-Examples | ||
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## Principle Name | ||
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contact person | ||
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## Summary | ||
There should be a single person who is responsible for communications between the | ||
community and the ontology developers, for communicating with the Foundry on all | ||
Foundry-related matters, for mediating discussions involving maintenance in the | ||
light of scientific advance, and for ensuring that all user feedback is addressed. | ||
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## Purpose | ||
It is important that there is a single person responsible for communication rather | ||
than a group of people or a list. Often in communications to a list, the responsibility | ||
for responding can be diffused and it is likely that in some scenarios no response will | ||
be given. It may also, from time to time, be necessary to engage in strategic | ||
communications (e.g. relating to funding or collaboration possibilities) that are not | ||
able to be made public, and these should not be conducted on public mailing lists. The | ||
designation of a single contact person is not to be interpreted as a designation for credit. | ||
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## Implementation | ||
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### Recommendation: | ||
The name and email address of this person should be provided when requesting to include | ||
an ontology in the OBO Foundry (or, better yet, when requesting inclusion in the OBO | ||
Library), and should be listed in the [OBO Registry] | ||
(http://obo.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/obo/obo/website/cgi-bin/ontologies.txt). | ||
This person must be subscribed to | ||
obo-discuss in order to be kept abreast of community developments of relevance to | ||
participating ontology projects. The email address of the person who is the locus of the | ||
authority must be kept up-to-date, and before that person ceases to have responsibility | ||
for the project, they should identify a replacement and update the metadata accordingly | ||
(via the [OBO Foundry issue tracker] (https://github.com/OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io/issues)) before they move on. The contact person can, of course, delegate | ||
these responsibilities as necessary. | ||
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### Examples: | ||
For ChEBI, the primary contact person is Janna Hastings ([email protected]). | ||
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### Counterexamples: | ||
Mailing list; for ChEBI, [email protected] | ||
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## History | ||
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### Original Formulation | ||
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``` | ||
(Name: Locus of Authority) There should be a single person who is responsible for the | ||
ontology, for ensuring continued maintenance in light of scientific advance and prompt | ||
response to user feedback, Contact information for this person should be provided on the | ||
ontology website, and listed in the OBO Library Metadata File. | ||
There should be a single person (perhaps the same person) who is responsible for liaison | ||
between the ontology developers and the OBO Foundry coordinating editors. | ||
``` | ||
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<Category:Principles> <Category:Accepted> |