Move IUCN protected areas to instances

[timalamenciak]

Spinning off of discussions in #1556, it looks like "area protected according to IUCN guidelines" and its subclasses are actually instances of "area of protected biodiversity"

[pbuttigieg]

Spinning off of discussions in #1556, it looks like "area protected according to IUCN guidelines" and its subclasses are actually instances of "area of protected biodiversity"

These aren't instances, but correctly represented as subclasses.

An instance would be a specific reserve or protected area, like "Armadilloville Reserve, Armadilloville, Republic of Xenarthra"

[timalamenciak]

I'm struggling a bit with whether ecoregions should be classes or instances. For example, "Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests" is one ecoregion. The "Hullett Provincial Wildlife Region" is technically an instantiation of the ecoregion "Eastern Great Lakes lowland forest", but if we make ecoregions instances themselves, it would not be possible to have instances of instances.

It may make more sense to have this conversation in the #1556 thread. I'm still working on navigating GitHub.

[pbuttigieg]

I'm struggling a bit with whether ecoregions should be classes or instances. For example, "Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests" is one ecoregion.

Instance. Named place.

Larry the Crayfish is an instance of the crayfish class.

The "Hullett Provincial Wildlife Region" is technically an instantiation of the ecoregion "Eastern Great Lakes lowland forest", but if we make ecoregions instances themselves, it would not be possible to have instances of instances.

That sounds like an instance of an ecosystem that is a part (at the instance level) of an instance of an ecoregion.

Larry the Crayfish's carapace is part of Larry the Crayfish and is an instance of the carapace class.

It may make more sense to have this conversation in the #1556 thread. I'm still working on navigating GitHub.

This is a good place - good to branch off topics into chunks

[pbuttigieg]

It is also possible that two instances of the same class can have instance-level parthood relations.

Jeremiah's sculpture of a crayfish is an instance of a sculpture, and it can be part of Jeremiah's sculpture of a crayfish picnic, also an instance of a sculpture.