Incorect "rdfs:subClassOf" in "LabProtocol_v0.8-DRAFT.json"

[KilianLissSMRTR]

In the following json-ld for LabProtocol:
https://github.com/BioSchemas/specifications/blob/master/LabProtocol/jsonld/LabProtocol_v0.8-DRAFT.json

We have the following:

  "@graph": [
    {
      "@id": "bioschemasdrafts:LabProtocol",
      "@type": "rdfs:Class",
      "rdfs:comment": "Bioschemas profile describing a LabProtocol in Life Sciences. An experimental LabProtocol is a sequence of tasks and operations executed to perform experimental research in biological and biomedical areas. This LabProtocol profile specification presents the markup for describing a LabProtocol type according to Bioschemas. An experimental LabProtocol is a sequence of tasks and operations executed to perform experimental research in biological and biomedical areas. Version 0.8-DRAFT.\n\n<h3>Summary of changes</h3>\nChanges since previous draft 0.7 of the LabProtocols profile:\n<ul>\n<li>Uses LabProtocol draft type 0.4</li>\n<li>Uses name for the name/title of the protocol rather than headline</li>\n<li>Uses intendedUse for the purpose of the protocol</li>\n<li>Moves isPartOf to optional as it is rather generic</li>\n<li>Uses computationalTool rather than sotwareUsed</li>\n</ul>",
      "rdfs:label": "LabProtocol",
      "rdfs:subClassOf": {
        "@id": "bioschemastypesdrafts:LabProtocol"
      },

In particular we have:

"rdfs:subClassOf": {
        "@id": "bioschemastypesdrafts:LabProtocol"
      },

This would suggest that the class LabProtocol is a child class of LabProtocol (which doesn't seem to make sense to me).

In the online documentation:
https://bioschemas.org/profiles/LabProtocol/0.8-DRAFT

The documentation suggests that the class hierarchy should be:
Thing > CreativeWork > HowTo > LabProtocol

Which would suggest that the LabProtocol JSON should be corrected to:

"rdfs:subClassOf": {
 "@id": "schema:HowTo"
},

Please have a look and see if my interpretation is correct, if so, this should be a relative easy fix I would imagine.

[ljgarcia]

Hi @KilianLissSMRTR Thanks for your comment.

Bioschemas has types and profiles. A profile is a recommendation on how to use a specific type (e.g., adding cardinality rules). In both cases, we have drafts and releases. In the case that you mention, we have bioschemastypesdrafts:LabProtocol, meaning a draft type for LabProtocol, and we also have bioschemasdrafts:LabProtocol, meaning a draft profile.

Profiles, as a recommendation over a type, are an rdfs:SubClassOf the corresponding type.

Does it clarify it?

[KilianLissSMRTR]

Thanks for the response, it looks like I wasn't including the draft profiles when messing around with the data, hence the hierarchy was a off. It does make sense now though.

I suppose we can close this issue then.