[protege-discussion] unique IDs?

[Samson Tu]

Alternatively you can assign unique IDs to your class names, and use a 
label slot to hold human-readable names that you can change whenever you 
want.

Samson

Thomas Russ wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Nick Berry wrote:
> 
> Assuming Protégé frames.
> 
> 
>> If I have a class named "foo" with some instances assigned to it and  
>> I export the data into an XML file and then tomorrow I rename the  
>> class "bar" with the same instances assigned to it how does the  
>> consumer of the XML data determine that "foo" and "bar" are the same  
>> class for the purposes of resolving external references to that  
>> class which have been established outside of Protege?
> 
> You could take the approach taken by the Gene ontology folks and  
> assign a unique ID via a special "guid" own slot on the class.
> 
> There isn't any built-in method that will automatically assign such a  
> slot a unique ID, but you could always build some type of widget or  
> plug-in that would do this for you.  Perhaps the simplest would be to  
> create a project plugin and have the beforeSave method make sure that  
> there is a unique ID assigned to each class.  For any new classes, a  
> new ID would be generated, and then you just need to make sure you  
> never change it.
> 
> 
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