[Biojava-dev] RE: Flyweight Ontologies?

[Schreiber, Mark]

> This all sounds good, particularly IDs for all singletons, and 
> particularly if there's an easy way to implement it without lots of 
> special case code each time.

I don't forsee too many problems.

> 
> I think the LSID people would point out at this point that 
> LSIDs should 
> be permanent, and immutable, always resolving to the same (or 
> equivalent) entity. If we substitute URN for LSID, then I'm happy - 
> urn:biojava: or something - I think we're meant to use 
> urn:x-biojava as 
> we've not registered the biojava namespace.

I'm not sure I follow. My intention would be that they do always resolve to the same object. Although I haven't looked too much into the ontology package so I'm not sure if this is possible.

- Mark

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