[MOBY-dev] Cleaning the registry

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

Andreas Groscurth wrote:

> 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 ?

For the theory, I think this is good idea but why not start by mailing 
the owner of the datatypes/namespaces to tell them that their creation 
is not used. I think that would be the first step before removing 
anything :)

Could you provide the list of the datatypes and namespace you found 
somewhere ?

Thanks and regards
,

Pierre