Our scenario

• Geographically distributed communities of users

• Diverse users: ontology developers and software engineers

Our Repository

• Assistive technologies for elderly and handicapped population

• Provide a single entry point • Facilitate programmatic access via API • Stand alone and web based clients (Protégé)• Web based publishing system (Bioportal)

Our Repository

• Facilitate reuse– Ontology patterns

• Facilitate interoperability– Encourage modularity– Encourage the adoption of good practices

(documentation, methods, etc)– Practical use of E-connections

Our Repository

• Registered users– Upload– Edit/ Delete/search and retrieve– Share, tag, map, annotate– Private “desktop” area

• Non Registered users – Browse– Download public ontologies– Search and retrieve

Work supporting our repository

• Development of pertinent plug-ins – CMAPS: http://map2owl.sourceforge.net/

• Cmaps supporting the development of ontolgies

– RepOWL: basic management of a repository (local/URL based)

• Methodological issues– Currently we are working on a set of good practices

for our community

• Metadata for ontologies – We are “adopting” and “evolving” OMV– Modularity, interoperability across metadata.

TBD

• E-Connections

• OMV: modularity, core meta data ontology, extendible

• Queries across several ontologies– How to support the manipulation of results

in a way that users can re-use: “slicing ontologies”

Work supporting our repository