LOINC Classes over SKOS Concepts

[riannella]

I was wondering about the design decisions that creates some LOINC entities as OWL Classes.

For example,
<http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/LNC/LA6725-1> a owl:Class ;
is defined as an OWL Class.
(This is the "Not breathing" value used in APGAR Scores)

This would mean that there is an expectation that there would be instances created that are of this type and those individuals are used in a knowledge graph...
But it seems that the use case is more that this specific entity would be used as the object of an (apgar) property.

Hence, the entity should be perhaps defined as a type of skos:Concept

Thoughts?

[justin2004]

yeah, i bet most ontologists would expect a value "not breathing" that is the result of some test to be an instance not a class.
this project is useful for starting up a biomedical project quickly but it is not a thoughtful use of RDF and modeling in general.