[Biojava-dev] RE: Flyweight Ontologies?

Schreiber, Mark mark.schreiber at agresearch.co.nz
Tue Nov 11 19:32:26 EST 2003


Whatever your happy with. I think the less numerical option is the better one. Means the URN is more likely to mean something in debugging.

I guess it will require getURN methods to be added to the appropriate interfaces. Could you do that?

- Mark


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Pocock [mailto:matthew_pocock at yahoo.co.uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2003 12:26 a.m.
> To: Schreiber, Mark
> Cc: biojava-dev at biojava.org
> Subject: Re: [Biojava-dev] RE: Flyweight Ontologies?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The core ontology probably does qualify, perhaps. 
> URN:biojava:ontology/core for the ontology and perhaps 
> URN:biojava:ontology/core|ISA and the like for the terms? 
> URN:biojava:ontolgy/core|relation,has_a,domain for triples? 
> Or we could 
> just give all terms & triples a unique numerical ID somewhere and do 
> <ontoURN>#<id> - far to many options.
> 
> Matthew
> 
> >>A particular LSID should resolve for all eternity to the same
> >>entity, so 
> >>by using LSIDs for things like ontologies within a running 
> >>application, 
> >>we are implicitly contracting ourselves to have that data 
> >>available /for 
> >>ever/, even if it is working data or intermediate results, or 
> >>if we know 
> >>we will be changing the schema next week. URNs don't have 
> >>this restriction.
> >>    
> >>
> > 
> >Wouldn't the core Ontology come under that categorie? If 
> not, what form 
> >do you think the URN should take? Is there a need for each 
> Term to know 
> >which Triple it belongs too or which Ontology?
> >
> >- Mark 
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