[MOBY-dev] Cleaning the registry ?

[Andreas Groscurth]

Hi all,

I wrote a short script which basically fetches all namespaces and all 
datatypes registered at the Moby central in Canada. Both are then 
compared to all datatypes and namespaces of all registered services used 
for the input and the output definition.

Assuming the retrieval methods in jmoby work correctly and my script 
does it also we have the following numbers:

Registered Data Types: 721
Unused Data Types: 388

Registered Namespaces: 459
Unused Namespaces: 232

This means 53% of all registered datatypes are not used - and 50% of all 
Namespaces !!!

How do you think about cleaning the registry once in a while and erase 
unsused datatypes and namespaces ?

Of course they might be useable for a service provider someday, but for 
the sake of clarity I would suggest to do that. Cleaning both would 
reduce the number of entries by more than the half, which would result 
in smaller, more compact, better understandable and better browsable 
ontologies.

What do you think ?

Cheers
Andreas