Term request: social gathering

[Public-Health-Bioinformatics]

This term is motivated by epidemiological investigation of outbreaks. (A pathogen can be transmitted at a social gathering directly or through food served at the event.) It currently sits in GenEpiO but it is time to move it to PCO!

Term: social gathering
Definition: A social gathering is a type of event in which a collection of humans intentionally gathers together on a temporary basis to engage socially.

It could be under parent:
collection of humans: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PCO_0000027

But it is not a persistent thing, it is a type of event. The definition could also be generalized to include social gatherings observed between animals? I leave "social engagement" to be defined elsewhere.

[Public-Health-Bioinformatics]

I should note that we have a few types of social gathering in GenEpiO that PCO may want to claim?

[Public-Health-Bioinformatics]

heh - that should be "baby shower", not just "shower"!

[ramonawalls]

I will make a taxon-neutral parent class for this called "social aggregation" and name the class described above "human social gathering". I think it makes sense to include the current GenEpiO subclasses of social gathering in PCO. I'll move them over here then let the GenEpiO curators know when they are released.

[Public-Health-Bioinformatics]

sounds great!

[ramonawalls]

I now realize that these are activities, not groups of organisms. I would like to use labels like "social aggregation activity" and "human social gathering activity", to make it clearer. @Public-Health-Bioinformatics, please let me know if you also see any need for classes that define the group of people taking part in these activities.

[ramonawalls]

We can import social behavior (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0035176) as the parent term. The GO terms should have PCO_collection of organisms of the same species as a participant. I can request that from GO.

[Public-Health-Bioinformatics]

Activity is quite appropriate! Thanks.

[Public-Health-Bioinformatics]

Our use of the terms is for describing the context of an epidemiology investigation. We don't really need any further logic / classes describing what kind of people are involved in the activity, as long as the activities have their classes.

[ramonawalls]

@Public-Health-Bioinformatics These terms are now available in PCO as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PCO_0000033 and its children. However, I could use some help with the text definitions. I added what I assumed you meant by each class, but please review and make sure they are correct, especially for 'human community event'.

[Public-Health-Bioinformatics]

I like your definitions! Couldn't do better myself.

For potluck, I'd lean on the wikipedia definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potluck
A potluck is a gathering where each guest [usually] contributes a different and unique dish of food, often homemade, to be shared.

I'll make the replaced by annotations in GenEpiO today.

I take it activities like "hiking" and "camping" aren't necessarily social. Is there an ontology suited to those that you know of?