Re: [tdwg-tag] Ontology methods (was: Re: Embedding specimen (and other) annotations in NeXML)

On Feb 24, 2009, at 7:07 AM, Roger Hyam wrote:

I would stress again though that we need to think in small chunks i.e. not in terms of one ontology for biodiversity informatics.

I don't think that's different from the recommended approach within the OBO Foundry. There isn't one ontology for bio-informatics or genome informatics or medical informatics either :-)

What the OBO Foundry principles do say is that ontologies shall aim to be orthogonal to each other.

-hilmar