[bioontology-support] Obsolete terms showing and not indicated as obsolete

[Natasha F. Noy]

Peter,

That's a very good point and handling obsolete terms is on our list of  
things to do. Part of the problem is that we need to find a solution  
that will work for all formats, not just OBO, and OWL, for example,  
doesn't have a standard way to handle obsolete terms, We have a decent  
idea on how to do this, but we haven't gotten around to implementing  
it yet.

Natasha


On Sep 15, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Peter E. Midford wrote:

> Hi,
>      I was playing around with a different tool that offered me the  
> obsolete term TTO:species.  Out of curiosity, I checked whether the  
> term still existed in the TTO as rendered on the Bioportal.  It is  
> there, even though the term was obsoleted several months back and  
> the TTO version on the portal is current.  The only indication that  
> the term might not be available is that it lacks an is_a parent, but  
> that situation is common in some ontologies, so it wouldn't indicate  
> anything amiss with using the term.  It wasn't clear to me that the  
> visualization tool even had a filter for obsolete terms.
>
> I hope that this can be addressed, either as a future enhancement,  
> or, if there is a reason for displaying obsoleted terms, with an  
> explanation.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
> --
> Peter Midford
> Phenoscape Ontology Curator
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