Discussion during the development of the SmartAPI ontology lookup proxy

[jonquet]

(just copy paste the relavant points raised in email on Feb 1st - with enumerated points we can refer to in the tracker)

1- We often use Json-LD Playground to check the validity of the JSON generated. I am not fully aware of the specification, but in BioPortal we use @context to specify the properties

2- For the property includedInDataCatalog in the /ontologies call, indeed it needs to link back to the object defined in your own API then something like :
"includedInDataCatalog": [
"http://176.31.200.199/repositories/ols,
http://176.31.200.199/repositories/bioportal,
],
Also I used an array here as an ontology will be present sometimes in several repositories. Then of course the question of identifying the duplicates raises.

6- You need to complete the API with a call to isolate a concept only: /concepts/{URI-ID} for this you might need to use URL encoding of the concept URI.

7- For your /concepts call, you will need to implement some kind of iterator for ontologies that have a huge amount of concept or the API call will break/time out.

[jonquet]

Point 2 is discussed more in issue #2