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Setup before editing

Manuel Lera Ramirez edited this page Jul 3, 2023 · 3 revisions

Requirements and pre-startup configuration

Protege configuration

Picking your id ranges

Because there can be several editors of the ontology, everyone gets a range of IDs, so that there are no clashes if two editors work at the same time. For example at some point @ValWoord had ranges from (8000 to 9000) and @manulera (9000 to 10000), so new terms added by @ValWood started from FYPO:0008000, FYPO:0008001, etc.

This is explained in the obook switching ontologies and setting id ranges tutorials. A brief summary is given below.

Obsoleted setting of ranges in Protégé

You should indicate your idrange in the file src/ontology/fypo-idranges.owl

In Protege go to Protege > Preference (in Mac) or File > Preferences (in Windows -I think-). Go to the tab New entities and set:

This is how the settings should look:

settings1

You can also set the following in the "renderer" tab:

settings2

More important Protege configuration can be found in the section "setting preferences for user details" and next sections from OBO tutorials. These settings make it so that protege marks you as an author of every term you add, otherwise you have to do this manually. If your user name in Protege matches the name in the fypo-idranges.owl file, your id range will be picked up directly from the file. Otherwise, Protege will ask you to pick up a user from the list.