App/public/ontology/analyze

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Overview

The goal of this tool is to allow for explicit and unambiguous reference to ontological concepts within publications, other websites, or applications through the use of Universal Resource Identifiers (URIs). This sounds a little confusing, but the idea is straightforward. Labels used in publications are often not explicitly defined, and when read by others they may be misinterpreted (e.g through synonymy or homonomy). By including in your publication or website a link to a specific ontological concept, for example an anatomical structure, you can state your intention as to how a given word (label/term) is used in your particular paper- "by using the word 'head' I mean the thing that is defined in this manner in this ontology.". Nearly all taxonomic publications, for example, include a statement in their Materials and Methods that indicates where the descriptive terminology in the present work is defined. The analyzer is a powerful tool to aid in the production of these statements. ogy.


Usage

Steps to publishing a "URI Table"

At present we suggest the following steps be taken to produce a publishable table based on the analysis result:

Future work

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