On 5/31/06, Zhiliang Hu <zhu@iastate.edu> wrote:
> Jie and Peter,
>
> I added following feature requests to your tracking site. I copy them
> below for reference of everyone:
>
> * SUGGESTION 5:
> The main utility of the ATO Editor is to edit "relationships". At the meantime
> the Users wish to annotate the terms as well. Would it be possible that the
> Terms "descriptions", "definitions", "Units", etc. be given a larger editing
> window? I think this is a practically feature users want and it does not
> involve much "ontology" works, but definitely adds value to it.

It is already feasible using "details" panel. meta data such as
"descriptions", "definitions", "Units" can be defined in the ontology
schema and be specified for each ontology term.
>
> * SUGGESTION 6:
> To open up channels for the ATO project to be portable to the community,
> one would wish to easily download the ontology works for their own sake.
> A utility may be very useful to export the current ontology into
> (1) Flat files in the format of hierarchy; (2) SQL-ready format for database
> upload.
>
(1) The editor now support OBO format. Do you mean to support
exportation as a tree in plain text?
(2) Could be. However, there may be some diffculties, since we use
"oid" to indentify each term and relation, while oid is
database-depedent. Since we can also import a OBO format file, the
"upload" is already feasible.

> Please let me know if we need a talk. Thanks,
>
> Zhiliang
>
>
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Received on Thu Jun 1 06:12:50 2006