Create unique names for entities

[cmungall]

A long time ago I had a discussion with Michael about entity names. GAZ stood in contrast to everything else in OBO that had largely unique names.

He convinced me that it was fine in GAZ to have many entities in GAZ share the same name. However, it might be nice to create a unique obo foundry unique label for all entities.

An important note that will hopefully become stale soon. In previous versions of Protege, you get into massive trouble if your ontology has entities that share the same rdfs:label. I think this is fixed in 5.5 or 5.6 but haven't tested. This should probably be in the editor docs when we get them up

[ddooley]

I can say the duplicate name issue is fixed in Protege - Protege now provides term id alongside any duplicate labels for entities in the interface. Really helpful.

[cmungall]

ok good, we should make sure to specify a minumum protege version in the editor docs

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[lschriml]

Chris:
suggestion - create a property - non-unique label

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