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Templates for OBO ontologies - OBO Semantic Engineering Training

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Ontologies are notoriously hard to edit. This makes it a very high burden to edit ontologies for anyone but a select few. However, many of the contents of ontologies are actually best edited by domain experts with often little or known ontological training - editing labels and synonyms, curating definitions, adding references to publications and many more. Furthermore, if we simply remove the burden of writing OWL axioms, editors with very little ontology training can actually curate even logical content: for example, if we want to describe that a class is restricted to a certain taxon (also known as taxon-restriction), the editor is often capable to select the appropriate taxon for a term (say, a "mouse heart" is restricted to the taxon of Mus musculus), but maybe they would not know how to "add that restriction to the ontology".

Templating systems for OBO ontologies: a deep dive ¶ Ontologies are notoriously hard to edit. This makes it a very high burden to edit ontologies for anyone but a select few. However, many of the contents of ontologies are actually best edited by domain experts with often little or known ontological training - editing labels and synonyms, curating definitions, adding references to publications and many more. Furthermore, if we simply remove the burden of writing OWL axioms, editors with very little ontology training can actually curate even logical content: for example, if we want to desc

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