Re: [BioRDF] Comments from Christoph Grabmuller on BioRDF microarray provenance

> The DO is a OBO Foundry candidate, and there is an official OWL
> release [1], so wouldn't that be the authoritative source for URIs? Of
> course it's easy to replace the definition_citations, but wouldn't it
> be much nicer if the user can just download two 'officially' released
> OWL files and work across them directly?
> Of course there are many other sources that do not define any URIs on
> their own whatsoever.

As a point of reference, the OBO id policy is documented here
(currently google docs, soon on obofoundry site)
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Acx6Blq96uycZHpwcm5td18wZGtkMmdiZ3Y&hl=en

FWIW, "OBO Foundry candidate" isn't an official designation, though it
is often used descriptively by projects that have asked for review.

-Alan

>
> Christoph
>
> [1] http://www.obofoundry.org/cgi-bin/detail.cgi?id=disease_ontology

Received on Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:20:27 UTC