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---
layout: principle
id: fp-011-locus-of-authority
title: locus of authority
title: locus of authority / contact person
---

Principle Name
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locus of authority

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").

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.

Date Accepted
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- ??

Examples
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Counter-Examples
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## Principle Name

contact person

## 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.

## 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.

## Implementation

### 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.

### Examples:
For ChEBI, the primary contact person is Janna Hastings ([email protected]).

### Counterexamples:
Mailing list; for ChEBI, [email protected]

## History

### Original Formulation

```
(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.
```

<Category:Principles> <Category:Accepted>

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