Create URIs for ontologies that are independent of serialization

OBOFoundry / purl.obolibrary.org

A system for managing OBO PURLs

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Create URIs for ontologies that are independent of serialization #852

Open cmungall opened 2 years ago

cmungall commented 2 years ago

URLs like http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi fall though to OCLC

Proposal:

URLs like obo:foo refer to a logical resource independent of serialization
OBO PURLs default to something like the owl if not otherwise registered (or homepage)
Anyone can configure this for their ontology
We agree on some predicate (in OMO?) to relate obo:foo.owl to obo:foo

matentzn commented 2 years ago

Lol i just took a note to make that exact request tomorrow!! My 100% support!

jamesaoverton commented 2 years ago

There's a base_redirect configuration parameter (see the README) that controls these http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/foo. Some projects use them, and some do not. I don't think we can change this behaviour across the board.

matentzn commented 2 years ago

I looked at the use of base_redirect, https://github.com/OBOFoundry/purl.obolibrary.org/search?p=1&q=base_redirect&type=code and it is without fail a link to the homepage.

What about this, we simply redirect it by default to https://obofoundry.org/ontology/bfo.html unless it is overwritten, add an SOP that it should be a link to an "informative page about the resource" and moving forward, recommend

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/foo

To be the identifier of the resource itself - like say a wikidata identifier.

The cool thing would be that we don't have to make up new purls to denote "the ontology as a whole". I don't really think we care where the link resolves - just not "nowhere".

matentzn commented 1 year ago

Reviving the above, but adding another complication: the PURL prefix.

Can we redirect http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/foo by default to https://obofoundry.org/ontology/foo.html if its not otherwise specified and
Can we redirect http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOO (where FOO is the ontology preferred prefix) to the same place?