#192 standard defs revisited

[Midori Harris]

I'm finding it frustrating having the standard defs
scattered all over the ontology pages ... I know that was
done on purpose (SF 1122497), but it's hard to find specific
ones -- you have to already know how they've been
categorized to know where on the page to look. Maybe the
style guide and each ontology guide should link to a
standard def page (which could use the spiffy new search, a
la the biblio). I would prefer having the defs all in one
place!
m

[Jennifer Deegan]

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Hi,

I'm finding that as well actually. It's fine for the bits of documentation that I
wrote myself, but for the other stuff there's a bit too much mind reading
involved.

Thinking it through I start to wonder whether the standard DAGs ought to go
with them, but then that leaves the documentation accompanying the
standard defs and DAGs a bit out on a limb. Might it be a possibility just to
have one table somewhere with an index of terms carrying standard defs
with each hyperlinked to the actual listing of that standard def? That way
we'd be able to find the one we want but the information about any given
topic would still be kept together.

If that doesn't sound good I'd be happy to have the standard dags together
and just a hyperlink from the documentation text.

Jen

[Midori Harris]

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I think the standard DAGs are a bit different, and it's
not as much of a problem to have them where they
are. They'll be used mainly by curators who already
have to think carefully about terms and relationships,
whereas with defs I just want to find the term text that
matches, and copy-n-paste the standard bit. The DAGs
also really only make sense in the context of the
explanatory blurbs.

A hyperlinked list for standard defs would be fine with me.

m

[girlwithglasses]

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I can easily create a standard def thing on the same lines as the biblio. Another
std def problem is that not all the standard defs used in the ontologies are
actually on the web pages. I will see if I can find any more (there are several that
can be added that I can think of just off the top of my head).