Hi Trish,
What was the specifics of the argument for alphanumeric versus numeric
identifiers?
If you check out the go-format list I recently sent some examples that
use identifiers of the form
http://www.bioontologies.org/2006/02/obo/GO#0000001
Details are in
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=24431577
BTW, all of them are alphanumeric in the sense that they are URIs. But
a little care needs to be taken because of qnames, etc. used in xml.
Nothing that can't be worked around in a reasonable manner.
Regards,
Alan
On Jul 10, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Trish Whetzel wrote:
As one note, I wanted to mention that it seems as though alphanumeric
versus solely numeric identifiers would be preferred based on viewing
preliminary work by Chris Mungall in efforts to translate OBO format
ontologies to OWL.
Trish
