[Ontology-editors] [OBO-Edit Working Group] Synonyms checks

[Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark)]

Great, thanks. (I know it it rather a basic question, but you can bet 
your bottom dollar that if I don't ask then my choice will make someone 
really mad.)

Jen

Midori Harris wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't think it would make any sense at all to include a synonym of any 
> scope that is the same as a parent term name; it would be redundant at 
> best, and could cause more confusion than it averts.
> 
> If there isn't another term using the "non-expanded" name, then a broad 
> or related synonym might be useful.
> 
> m
> 
> On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark) wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am fixing sensu synonyms just now. Where there is a term with an 
>> expanded name for clarity do you think it would be reasonable to have 
>> the non-expanded name as a broad synonym, if the synonym would be a 
>> same as a parent name? Or shall we just leave people to navigate down 
>> from the parent of the same name?
>>
>>
>> For example I have:
>>
>> [i]eye development
>> ---[i]camera-type eye development
>>
>> camera-type eye development
>> broad synonym: eye development
>>
>> Or perhaps related synonym would be good?
>>
>> I have no preference.
>>
>> Jen
>>
>>
>> Midori Harris wrote:
>>> The name redundancy check does this, but it only looks at exact 
>>> synonyms. I don't know of a way in the OE GUI to get it to include 
>>> the other synonym scopes.
>>>
>>> I might have done something of the sort with a script once, but I 
>>> don't remember clearly .. probably used go-perl ...
>>>
>>> m
>>>
>>> On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody know if there it an easy way to check in OBO-Edit if a 
>>>> term
>>>>  has a synonym that is the same as the name of another term? The
>>>> synonym part of the verification checker doesn't seem to do this.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jen
>>>>
>>>>
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