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Include assessment of conflicts with Identifiers.org/Bioregistry for new submissions

Open cthoyt opened this issue 4 years ago • 28 comments

I've had a nice discussion with @hoganwr here about how the Geographical Entity Ontology has been registered in OBO Foundry (and subsequently included in the Ontology Lookup Service) under the prefix geo.

Unfortunately, this clashes with a well-known bioinformatics resource called the Gene Expression Omnibus, which is represented in Identifiers.org, Prefix Commons, and ultimately the Bioregistry as geo.

As Bill aptly pointed out in the thread, it's not necessarily the prerogative of the OBO Foundry to maintain a globally unique namespace - there aren't any rules to say that geo couldn't be used for the Geographical Entity Ontology and there probably shouldn't be. That being said, during the review process, it wouldn't be difficult for the OBO Foundry review to check that there aren't any conflicts (at least via the Bioregistry, since it's covering a wide variety of registries) and if there are, suggest a change.

@matentzn perhaps adding a field to https://obofoundry.github.io/obo-nor.github.io/dashboard/index.html for "no prefix conflict" would be a practical way to address this?

See also https://github.com/OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io/issues/1704

cthoyt avatar May 25 '21 17:05 cthoyt