Feedback on POC - Plant ontologies (PR#50)

[Katica Ilic]

Hi Alex,

We don't have a set of established standards for the all the other plant
ontologies, since so far they have developed independently from each other. I
am
referring here to species-specific plant ontologies. Plant Ontology Consortium
(POC) has adopted a set of rules and guiding principles that we have used for
creating the Plant Ontology.

We don't have a strict policy on accepting the other plant ontologies on the
POC.
This is collaborative project and we have a mandate to create and maintain the
Plant Ontology, which is a single ontology (which has two domains) describing
plant structures and growth/developmental stages for flowering plants. We don't
actively maintain species-specific ontologies at POC. Incorporation of the
species-specific ontologies into PO is something we have done initially when we
created our ontology (we started with three species-specific ontologies and
created a new, 'generic' plant onotology). 

At the present time, we are incorporating new species-specific terms into PO,
but not the entire ontologies.

I hope this clarification helps. 

Thank you for your interest in Plant Ontologies.

Best regards,

Katica


> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 00:40:40 -0500
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> comments: We are working on an ontology for genealogy managment systems. We
> would like to know if you have standards for plant related  ontologies so
they
> all keep some level of consistancy (they are all related to plants). On the
> other hand We would like to know if you have policies for accpeting new plant
> related ontologies. 
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> name: alex 
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> email: a.garcia at imb.uq.edu.au
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> organization: acpfg/imb/university of QLD, australia. 
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