Using the taxonomy features to import (and use) ontologies

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Posted by dakke on September 22, 2010 at 9:15am

We are developing, or better testing, whether Drupal is the CMS we should use to build an ontology-centric data management tool. We're very much in the exploratory phase, and are therefore exploring the options.

There are various tasks and goals we need to check, but regarding the taxonomy/ontology, we want to be able to import ontologies (e.g. as the ones posted on BioPortal) including the relations, synonyms and properties (very important).

With the Drupal 7 taxonomy core one can add fields, so it would be possible to use that. Yet, our knowledge of Drupal is limited, so ideas would be highly appreciated.

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That sort of thing - big

Posted by dman on December 16, 2010 at 10:39pm
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That sort of thing - big ontology management - is what
http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_xml
attempts to help with.
Import/export of various formats. Have a look there.

I already do MeSH imports with it,
the REST service from bioportal looks like it could be a plug-in service to the taxonomy_xml remote import process - it's designed to make REST requests from services like this.