[MOBY-dev] Changing only the description of an ontolgy entry

[Martin Senger]

> No and for good reasons.


IMHO, well no, not really a good reason. In BioMoby, descriptions are just
descriptions, they have nothing to do with ontology (like data types,
namespaces, etc.). If I change its description, a service still has the same
behaviour.

I agree with you in one point, however. *Any* change, even a change in
typos, should be reflected in the LSID revision, and, consequently, in all
dependent LSID revisions (in the same way as it would be done by the long
procedure of de- and re-registering). But because such change does not
change behaviour of services and, therefore, does not jeopardize any
clients, the all revision changes could be done hiddenly, by the registry
code - which would guarantee the "atomicity" of such operation (which we
cannot achieve easily from the clients).

Cheers,
Martin

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