COMMONS11 — Several OMG and external projects need a pattern for representing compositions

In pharmaceuticals and other industries, products are often composed of other things. The 'recipe' for manufacturing a product includes various ingredients, which are roles that substances, components. or other things take on in the context of that product.

Further, there are cases where the composition of some product is context specific. Product documentation may be jurisdictionally defined due to regulatory constraints, for example. The representation of some ingredients in certain pharmaceutical products, including the way these elements are described on packaging, is jurisdiction specific, even thought the product itself has exactly the same composition via exactly the same manufacturing processes world wide.

A general pattern for this kind of composition would be quite useful for a number of domain areas and is a good candidate for inclusions in the Commons library.

Augment the Commons library with an ontology defining compositions and roles

Introduce a new ontology representing composition and role as classes and relationships between them for use in addressing the requirements outlined in the issue description