[MOBY-dev] Cleaning the registry ?

[Sebastien Carrere]

Hi all and Bonne Annee !

I totally agree with Andreas.
This is what I do in Remora: I propose only used Datatypes and 
Namespaces in the starting page.

The large amount of datatypes is a real (and old) problem for biologists 
(and bioinformaticians !) endusers.

Sebastien






Andreas Groscurth wrote:
> 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
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