Hi Trish,
You can contact me regarding questions about this.
BioPortal provides an ontology library containing the different
release versions of ontologies, as submitted to us by the content
owners, but is not a content management system such as cvs. Different
ontology developers will use their preferred local systems to keep
alpha versions of their ontologies, and submit the release versions
to BioPortal. We are also working on a mechanism to pull current
versions of ontologies from the source systems, and we'd be
interested in exploring doing this for your ontologies as well.
We will be adding ontology diff, supported through PROMPT.
We can identify deprecated terms, and this service is provided by LexGrid.
Thanks
Daniel
At 09:07 AM 1/9/2007, Trish Whetzel wrote:
Hi Mark,
Are you the person to request updates of information currently
displayed on the site?
Also, can you provide more details on how the BioPortal will provide
versioning? Last I understood, there were no SVN capabilities with
the BioPortal - has that changed or did I misunderstand the set-up?
Will there be a general way to identify deprecated terms in the
ontologies posted in BioPortal, how does LexGrid handle this information?
Trish
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Trish Whetzel, Ph.D.
Programmer Analyst
University of Pennsylvania
Ph: 215-573-4793
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Mark Musen wrote:
Let me emphasize that this is a pre-release version on the Web
site. There will be lots of changes between now and February 1.
The system handles versioning very well, and you will be able to go
back and review older versions in addition to the most current
posting. There is planned support for a variety of features that
will be of particular interest, including alignment with other
ontologies, support for additional metadata and annotations, and
advanced visualization capabilities.
Mark