[Obo-discuss] Setting the data-version tag in obo-format files

[Chris M. <cjm...@lb...>]

This note is primarily for ontology developers/providers.

It's good practice to provide versionInfo in the release OWL version of your ontology - in obo-format this corresponds to the data-version tag. You can find info on the OBO policy for naming versions here: http://www.obofoundry.org/id-policy.shtml

For many groups I would recommend setting this automatically as part of a simple ontology release pipeline. There are some tips here:

	http://code.google.com/p/owltools/wiki/OortTipsPipeline

Having a distinct editors version is a good idea, whether or not you use Oort to make your releases.

There is more information on Oort, the OBO Ontology Release Tool here:

	http://code.google.com/p/owltools/wiki/OortIntro

Note this can be used for obo and owl ontologies.