Description: Ontology Repositories or Semantic Artefact Catalogues with the OntoPortal Technology
The OntoPortal Alliance is a consortium of researchers dedicated to promoting semantic services in scientific research based on shared domain-specific ontologies managed with the collaboratively developed OntoPortal software.
Many researchers use services of the OntoPortal Virtual Appliance , based on the BioPortal ontology repository , in dozens of local installations with content and capabilities tailored to their own research needs. Several researchers use OntoPortal to host public repositories, and these hosts are banding together to advance development and community support for this key semantic tool.
By setting up a co mmon repository on GitHub for the OntoPortal open source software, and by creating other shared resources for technical and strategic collaboration, the community will be able to contribute to OntoPortal’s development, dissemination, and documentation. Together the Alliance will plan the software’s improvements, adoption strategies, and long term growth and sustainability.