[MOBY-dev] [moby] integration of datatypes with multiparental relations in the datatype ontology

[Mark Wilkinson]

Hi Julien,

I don't see how it would be possible to integrate an "arbitrary" OWL  
ontology into the datatype (you mean Object, right?) ontology in any  
case... Can you please explain in more detail?

At this time, the ISA relationship in the Moby object ontology only allows  
single parenting and there are no plans to change that at the moment.   
This is because the serialization of instances of Moby Objevt nodes is  
tied to the ISA relationship, so it would be a fairly significant change  
in "logic" to allow multiple parenting I suspect...

Mark



On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:12:49 -0800, Julien Wollbrett  
<julien.wollbrett at cirad.fr> wrote:

> I made a plugin to automatically integrate an OWL ontology into the  
> datatype ontology.
> It's a plugin for protégé in which we need to specify both endpoint and
> namespace of the specified central registry.
> This plugin run with a "simple" ontology (i.e. ontology with no
> multiparental relations).
> The problem is that I can't create a datatype with multiparental  
> relation.
> A lot of biological ontologies have multiparental relations. How can I
> integrate these ontologies into the datatype ontology of a specified
> central registry?
> Did you planned to integrate multiparental relations in biomoby?
> Thank you for your help
>
> Julien Wollbrett
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