{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/116","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/116/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/116/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/116/events","html_url":"https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/116","id":98475856,"number":116,"title":"Is Biobank name an institutional identification?","user":{"login":"zhengj2007","id":6249284,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6249284?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007","html_url":"https://github.com/zhengj2007","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/labels/imported","name":"imported","color":"FFFFFF"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-07-31T21:41:48Z","updated_at":"2015-07-31T21:41:54Z","closed_at":null,"body":"_From [MBrochhausen@gmail.com](https://code.google.com/u/MBrochhausen@gmail.com/) on July 08, 2011 13:53:22_\n\nWould biobank name be an institutional identification? Were is the definition of what an institution is according to IAO? If biobank name is not an institutional identification, were would it go? Wouldn't it make sense to have textual identification items as one class with (possible) author identification and institutional identification as sub-types? Is it necessary to give those two a special treatment as opposed to person identification, dog identification and painting identification?\r\n\r\nThanks,\r\nMathias\n\n_Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/detail?id=116_"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/comments/126818451","html_url":"https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/116#issuecomment-126818451","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/116","id":126818451,"user":{"login":"zhengj2007","id":6249284,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6249284?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007","html_url":"https://github.com/zhengj2007","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zhengj2007/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-07-31T21:41:54Z","updated_at":"2015-07-31T21:41:54Z","body":"_From [HunterOn...@gmail.com](https://code.google.com/u/114346389741287394415/) on July 08, 2011 11:54:20_\n\nMelanie is right, the original motivation for this was to pick out the sorts of institutions that are associated with authors in publications.   For a variety of in-scope use cases there is a use for naming something that identifies an institution and something that identifies a person, e.g. text spans in biomedical publications. It is also used elsewhere in the ontology (e.g. institution list). I'm not convinced dog or painting identifications are in scope.  There are also \"centrally registered identifiers\"  (CRID, see IAO_0000574 et seq) which might be better for (licensed) dogs and (inventoried) paintings.   I agree it would be of potential value to have a parent term that subsumes these classes, but we had a long argument over what was or wasn't an identifier -- it seems that any information content entity can be conceived of as an identifier.  There is a synopsis of this discussion under the obsolete term \"_identifier\" \r\n\r\nAs to whether A biobank name is an institutional identification, it seems to me that if there is a specific biobank being named, it would indeed be a \"particular institution\" and then meet the definition.\r\n\r\nLarry"}}