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Re: [oor-forum] [bioportal-announce] BioPortal 3.2 Released

To: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: OpenOntologyRepository-discussion <oor-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Trish Whetzel <whetzel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 09:08:00 -0700
Message-id: <87EEA259-298F-4EBA-8CA4-632DD26EA349@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Dear Peter,    (01)

The VM 0.3 version corresponds to BioPortal 3.1. The release cycle for VM's is 
every 4-6 months. I'll check whether that duration will be shortened based on 
what features are planned in the coming months.     (02)

Trish     (03)


On Sep 6, 2011, at 5:49 PM, Peter Yim wrote:    (04)

> This is great, Trish. Congrats to your entire team on this new release!
> 
> Is the <ncbo-appliance-0.3.ova> vm "appliance" an image of this
> BioPortal 3.2 version, or is that of a previous version? ... If it's
> the latter, which version? and, do you have an ETA for the vm image
> for BioPortal 3.2?
> 
> Thanks & regards.  =ppy
> --
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Trish Whetzel <whetzel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is pleased to announce the
>> release of BioPortal 3.2.  New features include updates to the Web interface
>> and Web services:
>> 
>> Added Ontology Recommender feature,
>> http://bioportal.bioontology.org/recommender
>> Added support for access control for viewing ontologies
>> Added link to subscribe to BioPortal Notes emails
>> Synchronized “Jump To” feature with ontology parsing and display
>> Added documentation on Ontology Groups
>> Annotator Web service – disabled use of “longest only” parameter when also
>> selecting “ontologies to expand” parameter
>> Removed the metric "Number of classes without an author"
>> Handling of obsolete terms, part 1 – term name is grayed out and
>> <is_obsolete> element is returned in Web service response for obsolete terms
>> from OBO and RRF ontologies. This feature will be extended to cover OWL
>> ontologies in a subsequent release.
>> Bug Fix
>> 
>> Fixed calculation of “Classes with no definition” metric
>> Added re-direct from old BioPortal URL format to new URL format to provide
>> working links from archived search results
>> 
>> Firefox Extension for NCBO API Key:
>> To make it easier to test Web service calls from your browser, we have
>> released the NCBO API Key Firefox Extension. This extension will
>> automatically add your API Key to NCBO REST URLs any time you visit them in
>> Firefox. The extension is available at Mozilla's Add-On site. To use the
>> extension, follow the installation directions, restart Firefox, and add your
>> API Key into the “Options” dialog menu on the Add-Ons management screen.
>> After that, the extension will automatically append your stored API Key any
>> time you visit http://rest.bioontology.org.
>> Upcoming software license change:
>> The next release of NCBO software will be under the two-clause BSD license
>> rather than under the currently used three-clause BSD license. This change
>> should not affect anyone’s use of NCBO software and this change is to a less
>> restrictive license. More information about these licenses is available at
>> the site: http://www.opensource.org/licenses. Please contact
>> support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with any questions concerning this change.
>> 
>> Trish Whetzel, PhD
>> Outreach Coordinator
>> The National Center for Biomedical Ontology
>> Ph: 650-721-2378
>> whetzel@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> http://www.bioontology.org
>> http://twitter.com/#!/bioontology
>> 
>http://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Center-for-Biomedical-Ontology/127444774011153
>> 
>> 
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>> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/bioportal-announce    (05)


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