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URIs in OLS #270

Open janelomax opened 5 years ago

janelomax commented 5 years ago

Is there any reason OLS uses http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ URIs rather than http://identifiers.org/ ?

mcourtot commented 5 years ago

@janelomax are there any ontologies which are authored using identifiers.org IRIs?

janelomax commented 5 years ago

No idea I'm afraid! It's more that the http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ URIs usually resolve to OntoBee which is sometimes unstable.

matentzn commented 5 years ago

Hey @janelomax

I guess this is more an issue for the individual ontologies. All or most OBO ontologies will use OBO style IRIs to denote their terms, and every ontology can decide how they resolve. For example, HP chose to use ontobee as their term browser: https://github.com/OBOFoundry/purl.obolibrary.org/blob/master/config/hp.yml

but should probably choose the JAX HP search engine instead. DUO for example redirects directly to EBI (ex: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DUO_0000024), as configured here.

mcourtot commented 5 years ago

I guess I'm missing a step - OLS only hosts resources and uses the URIs that the ontology has natively (thugs the question about whether some use identifiers.org natively) As @matentzn mentions the redirection is up to the resource itself - though the suggested default is configured from OBO to be towards Ontobee, see https://github.com/OBOFoundry/purl.obolibrary.org Are you interested in having purl.obolibrary.org pointing more towards OLS instead of Ontobee? If this is the case, would you mind creating a ticket at https://github.com/OBOFoundry/purl.obolibrary.org/issues? Thanks!