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Re: [oor-dev] [ontolog-forum] BioPortal 2.5 Released

To: Paul R Alexander <palexander@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: OpenOntologyRepository-development <oor-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:35:46 -0700
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One more question, Paul (or anyone from the Stanford/NCBO team) ...    (01)

... does BioPortal v2.5 run on Tomcat 6 now?    (02)

Thanks.  =ppy
--    (03)


On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks & regards.  =ppy
> --    (04)


> 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
>>
>    (05)

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