Paul, (01)
Please advise what needs to be installed/upgraded (tag number, etc.)
to bring the OOR-sandbox up to this v2.5 revision level; plus anything
else we need to be aware of in the process of upgrading. (02)
Thanks & regards. =ppy
-- (03)
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> FYI ...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Trish Whetzel <plwhetzel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:44:20 -0700
> Subject: [ontolog-forum] BioPortal 2.5 Released
> To: "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is pleased to announce the
> release of *BioPortal 2.5*, a Web-based platform for browsing, visualizing,
> mapping, and commenting on biomedical ontologies and terminologies. Our new
> release of BioPortal includes many new features, Web services, and bug
> fixes. BioPortal (http://bioportal.bioontology.org) is a comprehensive
> repository of biomedical ontologies that enables users to access and share
> ontologies that are actively used in biomedical communities. Users can
> publish their ontologies in BioPortal, link ontologies to each other, review
> ontologies and comment on specific terms, list projects that use ontologies,
> annotate textual metadata with ontologies, and use Web services to
> incorporate ontologies or their components into their software applications.
>
> Major new features in this release include the following:
>
> - Support for *structured notes and term requests*: Users can now use
> BioPortal to request that content developers add new terms. BioPortal
> provides a structured template for making such requests, allowing users to
> suggest preferred names, synonyms, and definitions for the requested terms.
> BioPortal stores the requests as structured notes that are attached to the
> ontology and that other ontology tools, such as Protégé, will be able to
> use.
>
> - Support for *email notifications* to interested parties whenever a
> BioPortal user creates new notes for an ontology of interest. (If you would
> like to subscribe to notifications about a particular ontology, please send
> email to support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx We will have an interactive form to
> sign-up for notifications shortly.)
>
> - A set of prototype Web services to generate *RDF representation for
> terms* in ontologies in BioPortal (see documentation [1] for details).
>
> - A prototype end-point for SPARQL access to all ontologies in
> BioPortal: http://sparql.bioontology.org
>
> - A set of Web services for retrieving instance information for OWL
> ontologies [1]. We are planning to release a user interface for viewing
> instances shortly.
>
> - New ontology widgets that developers can embed on their Web sites,
> including an *ontology tree widget* that allows Web-site authors to present
> a display of an ontology or an ontology subtree for any BioPortal ontology
> in any Web page.
>
> - A preview release of *Bio-Mixer*, a mashup tool that provides
> extremely flexible browsing and exploration of ontologies and their mappings
>
> [1] http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO_REST_services
>
>
>
>
> Trish Whetzel, PhD
> Outreach Coordinator
> The National Center for Biomedical Ontology
> Ph: 650-721-2378
> whetzel@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.bioontology.org
> (04)
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