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Semantically incorrect similar classes
Hello OLS4 Team, i've been using the OLS to browse ontologies for a while now and i always enjoyed the big collection of ontologies and the well structured interface. However, browsing for a 'camera'-class (imaging device) to import it into my own ontology i realised that there is a 'camera'-class that refers to some kind of wasp (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_274080 or https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/ncbitaxon/classes/http%253A%252F%252Fpurl.obolibrary.org%252Fobo%252FNCBITaxon_274080). As there is no definition provided in any of the classes one might mistake the 'imaging device camera' for the 'wasp' or the other way around. Especially because the provided 'Similar Classes' for the wasp class clearly refer to imaging devices (e.g. 'camera lense', 'external camera' etc.) In this particular case i think one could infer from the tree that 'camera' may not refer to an imaging device, however this is probably not the only case and might cause further confusion in the future.
Best,
Tobias