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[bioontology-support] Obsolete terms showing and not indicated as obsolete
Natasha F. Noy
noy at stanford.edu
Thu Sep 16 15:01:49 PDT 2010
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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