>Matthias Samwald wrote: >... but the result is much >more useful when some basic ontology design criteria are met and the >information in the source databases is re-interpreted to form a >meaningful ontology. Unfortunately I cannot point you to a short, >comprehensive document that would describe the design philosophy I am >thinking of -- this is something that still needs to be written, I >guess. > > >[1] http://www.obofoundry.org/ro/ >[2] http://www.ifomis.uni-saarland.de/bfo/ >[3] http://obofoundry.org/
Barry Smith and I did a tutorial on how to make and use Biomedical Ontologies at ISMB 2007. The handout is at http://tinyurl.com/3dxeg8. Section 5, do's and don't's of ontology creation summarizes a lot of the design criteria. (Section -5 contains materials provided by Barry Smith and Andrew Spear). Cheers, Nigam.