Despite having a policy to dictate id patterns in the form of OBO PURLs, many OBO ontologies (especially those in OWL) contain syntactically invalid URI or non-resolving URLs. Thus, software is required to parse an ontology document and validate the URIs in use, in so that incorrect URIs can be identified and fixed.
Ideally, the software could query and obtain valid patterns from services
offered identifiers.org, which aims to describe datasets, including ontologies,
and specify valid identifier patterns. In that way we can discover both OBO
ontology patterns as well as patterns that are defined for more traditional
datasets.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by michel.dumontier on 8 May 2013 at 5:52
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
michel.dumontier
on 8 May 2013 at 5:52