Ontology

The eagle-i Resource Ontology (ERO)

A unique feature of eagle-i is that the data collection and search tools are completely driven by ontologies. These ontologies are a set of modules that are written in the OWL language and edited and managed using Protégé. The guides and instructions in the pages below will help you configure Protégé, edit the core ontology module, and add annotations to drive the user interfaces.

Goals

Our modeling approach had three main drivers. The first was to represent real data collected about resources. The second was to have the ontology control the userinterface (UI) and the logic of the data collection tool and search application. The third was a commitment to build a set of ontologies that could be reusable and interoperable with other ontologies and existing efforts for representing biomedical entities. This latter requirement translated into decisions to a) follow OBO Foundry principles and best practices for biomedical ontology development and b) engage in active discussions within the bio-ontology community in order to provide context for eagle-i interoperability and align with domain-wide standards for resource representation (http://bit.ly/rrcoord).