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

To: Ray Fergerson <ray.fergerson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: OpenOntologyRepository-discussion <oor-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 15:46:49 -0700
Message-id: <CAGdcwD3hoPCHPBHMMnBWS74SSK3GV2JQvn8cBhn8S_JKm46duw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thank you, Ray.  =ppy
--    (01)


On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Ray Fergerson
<ray.fergerson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Peter,
>
> After some discussion we have decided upon 3 times a year updates to the
> VM. We are currently planning on Feb, Jun, and Oct. The VM will contain
> the software from the previous month. (We do monthly BioPortal releases.)
> Thus the Oct VM release will contain the Sep BioPortal image. Of course if
> there is some disastrous bug discovered in a VM release we would go
> outside the schedule.
>
> We feel that, for most users, a more frequent update will be a lot of
> churn for little value. It is also some effort to produce a VM so we want
> to space them out.
>
> You are by no means required to update to all of these releases if it is
> inconvenient to do so.
>
> Ray    (02)


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: oor-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oor-forum-
>> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Trish Whetzel
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 3:24 PM
>> To: Peter Yim
>> Cc: OpenOntologyRepository-discussion
>> Subject: Re: [oor-forum] [bioportal-announce] BioPortal 3.2 Released
>>
>> Sure, Ray can provide more details on those items.
>>
>> Trish    (03)


>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Peter Yim wrote:
>>
>> > Thank you, Trish.
>> >
>> > Maybe we could get some pointers from you guys, at next Tuesday's
>> > (Sep-13) joint NCBO-OOR team session, how we can best keep our OOR
>> > instance up-to-date (patches for bug fixes especially) in between
>> your
>> > vm image releases.
>> >
>> > Regards.  =ppy
>> > --    (04)


>> > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Trish Whetzel <whetzel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> >> Dear Peter,
>> >>
>> >> 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.
>> >>
>> >> Trish    (05)


>> >> On Sep 6, 2011, at 5:49 PM, Peter Yim wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> 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
>> >>> --    (06)


>> >>> 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
>> >>>>
>> >>>> _______________________________________________
>> >>>> bioportal-announce mailing list
>> >>>> bioportal-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >>>> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/bioportal-announce    (07)

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