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ontology metadata: tracking changes to which terms are mireoted, and why #49

Open zhengj2007 opened 8 years ago

zhengj2007 commented 8 years ago

From alanruttenberg@gmail.com on August 17, 2009 12:23:38

If an ontology mireots a term and then decides not to, what should be said. Obsoleting the mireoted term is clearly wrong. Rather it is the use of the term in the importing ontology that needs to be recorded.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/detail?id=49

zhengj2007 commented 8 years ago

From mcour...@gmail.com on August 17, 2009 17:19:48

As the mireoted term still exist in the source ontology, do you have an example of why we may want to record the fact that we stopped using it? Is it a technical issue, as if IAO stops mireoting (e.g. from OBI) the end user needs to import OBI on its own? Or is it to explain why we chose to not mireot anymore a term: in this case the reference the user made to the external term is probably still the one he intended to make, and I am not sure we need to record the change in the target ontology?