From: Trish W. <wh...@pc...> - 2007-02-09 00:37:11
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As most you you know, members of the MGED Ontology working group are working with other communities on a new project called the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (obi.sf.net). This ontology is being developed to contain both common and domain-specific terms and is being developed following OBO Foundry best practices (obofoundry.org). One artifact of this design is that not all term names that a given community would prefer to see in an annotation application are the term names in the ontology. As one solution to this issue, the group has proposed an annotation property to store a user community term name. We are reviewing the implementation of this annotation property and it is currently slated to store synonyms, acronyms, abbreviations etc. and some of these may be further qualified by community/user group. I'm writing to get feedback from developers as to implementation requests of this information. Should the various term types be split out into their own annotation property, should some of these term types not be qualified by a user community,...? A listing of these annotation properties can be found at: https://www.cbil.upenn.edu/obiwiki/index.php/WorkshopMetadata Trish |