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Metadata for OWL file #51

Open zhengj2007 opened 9 years ago

zhengj2007 commented 9 years ago

From mcour...@gmail.com on May 25, 2012 18:22:43

Proposal to add complete metadata to the OWL file - see http://obi-ontology.org/page/Releases/How_OBI_is_versioned for an example. Requires creation of corresponding PURLs.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/bfo/issues/detail?id=51

zhengj2007 commented 9 years ago

From dosu...@gmail.com on July 02, 2012 03:06:56

Agree that adding formal representation of metadata to the OWL file is a good thing. Less convinced that using dates for versions is a good way forward though. I guess it will do for now, but in the longer term I think dates are simply not informative enough for end users. Kendal Clark has a nice post here about why ontologies should have informative release numbers. http://weblog.clarkparsia.com/2011/09/19/semantic-versioning-and-owl-ontologies/ I'd also support including a VCS revision number in the release data, as suggested by Melanie in her comment here: http://obi-ontology.org/page/Releases/How_OBI_is_versioned