[MOBY-l] Object name conflicts

[Gabriel Berriz]

Hi.

I wanted to register an object named "Interaction", but I discovered that 
an object of this name has already been registered.  Unfortunately, this 
Interaction object is not a suitable substitute for the object we had 
wanted to register under the same name, so we still would like to register 
our version of the "Interaction" object.  In other words, a textbook 
example of a namespace collision.

My temporary stop-gap solution was to register objects with names of the 
form "prefix:objectName", i.e. I resorted to a crude implementation of 
something like a namespace.  What's the word on dealing with such name 
collisions in the BioMOBY Object Ontology?  I think it would be nice to 
have namespace support for the names of objects in the Object Ontology.

Thanks,

Gabriel