NTR: social category data item and three subclasses

[CDowland]

This NTR is for four terms for representing data items that are about social categories.

This set of terms comes from the same paper (in development) that the terms added in #211 are from. I only recently realized that the data item terms didn't go into OMRSE at the same time as the others.

I only included my own ORCID under "Attribution" below; but since I'm developing the paper and terms with with @hoganwr and @dillerm, they could be added as contributors as well if they so choose.

The second and third of these address two recent requests: #249 and #250.

Term 1/4:

Preferred term label

social category data item

Textual definition

Data item according to which a given person is a member of a given social category.

Suggested parent term

data item

Suggested axioms

Subclass Of: 'is about' some 'Homo sapiens'
Subclass Of: is about' some ‘social category’

Attribution

ORCID: 0000-0003-1909-9269

Term 2/4:

Preferred term label

racial category data item

Textual definition

Social category data item for which the social category is a racial category.

Suggested parent term

social category data item

Suggested axioms

Subclass Of: ‘is about' some ‘racial category’

Attribution

ORCID: 0000-0003-1909-9269

Term 3/4:

Preferred term label

ethnic category data item

Textual definition

Social category data item for which the social category is an ethnic category.

Suggested parent term

social category data item

Suggested axioms

Subclass Of: ‘is about' some ‘ethnic category’

Attribution

ORCID: 0000-0003-1909-9269

Term 4/4:

Preferred term label

gender category data item

Textual definition

Social category data item for which the social category is a gender category.

Suggested parent term

social category data item

Suggested axioms

Subclass Of: ‘is about' some ‘gender category’

Attribution

ORCID: 0000-0003-1909-9269

[mbrochhausen]

This is great! As I indicated during the OMRSE meeting today, if there is an OMRSE-based way to represent these entities, we are happy to re-use those representations in OOSTT.

[dexink]

Additionally, it may be of interest to include "nationality data item" or "nation of origin data item" alongside these terms, as such a data items are commonly acquired together in concerned data collection instruments.

[dillerm]

My ORCID is 0000-0001-6378-1703. I think creating terms for nationality might be a good follow up to this project.

[dexink]

Covered during 5 March 2025 OMRSE Monthly meeting. Proposed terms were reviewed and approved. See OMRSE Agenda document for more information.