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Format consistency for xrefs #23

Open zhengj2007 opened 6 years ago

zhengj2007 commented 6 years ago

From @mcourtot on September 21, 2015 10:31

From Catherine's presentation at SPOT meeting: ontologies are using either labels or IRIs when xrefing. For example, NCI_Thesaurus:peritoneum vs NCIT:123456 where both denote the same term. This is an issue when integrating multiple resources, and something the community may be able to produce guidelines for.

Copied from original issue: OBOFoundry/Operations-Committee-RETIRED#186

zhengj2007 commented 6 years ago

Besides, when multiple terms listed, what is the correct format we should use to separate these terms? ";"? example: http://www.ontobee.org/ontology/DOID?iri=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_9351