Ontobull and BFOConvert: Web-based programs to support automatic ontology conversion

Edison Ong; Zuoshuang Xiang; Jie Zheng; Barry Smith; Yongqun He

Ontobull and BFOConvert: Web-based programs to support automatic ontology conversion

Edison Ong
, Zuoshuang Xiang
, Jie Zheng
, Barry Smith
, Yongqun He

Philosophy

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania

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Abstract

When a widely reused ontology appears in a new version which is not compatible with older versions, the ontologies reusing it need to be updated accordingly. Ontobull (http://ontobull.hegroup.org) has been developed to automatically update ontologies with new term IRI(s) and associated metadata to take account of such version changes. To use the Ontobull web interface a user is required to (i) upload one or more ontology OWL source files; (ii) input an ontology term IRI mapping; and (where needed) (iii) provide update settings for ontology headers and XML namespace IDs. Using this information, the backend Ontobull Java program automatically updates the OWL ontology files with desired term IRIs and ontology metadata. The Ontobull subprogram BFOConvert supports the conversion of an ontology that imports a previous version of BFO. A use case is provided to demonstrate the features of Ontobull and BFOConvert.

Original language	English
Journal	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	1747
State	Published - 2016
Event	2016 Joint International Conference on Biological Ontology and BioCreative - Food, Nutrition, Health and Environment for the 9 Billion, ICBO-BioCreative 2016 - Corvallis, United States Duration: Aug 1 2016 → Aug 4 2016

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Ontobull and BFOConvert: Web-based programs to support automatic ontology conversion

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