Try it out: http://obofoundry.github.io/
This is a proposed new website for the OBO Foundry. It replaces the previous proposal, but uses the same principles and YAML/RDF structures
The source can be found on https://github.com/OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io
It uses GitHub Pages/Jekyll, a popular static site generator. I already use this for http://uberon.org
It integrates nicely with github which means that the entire site can be seen on http://obofoundry.github.io (no need to run a dedicated webserver)
At the same time, we are not dependent on github - we could do our own static generation, e.g. with a Jenkins job
You can use the issue tracker but you may want to hold off til things are more stable
Please do! Fork and make PR, but beware things are not yet stable
- registry/
<-- DERIVED yaml, json and RDF. DO NOT EDIT- registry/ontologies.yaml
<-- READONLY - registry/ontologies.jsonld
<-- generated from yaml registry/ontologies.rdf <-- TODO generated from jsonld
- registry/ontologies.yaml
- ontology/
<-- source for ontology metadata. EDIT IN HERE- ontology/obi.md
<-- metadata (yml) and markdown for display. EDIT THIS - ontology/uberon.md
- ...
- ontology/obi.md
- Makefile
<-- For compiling derived artefacts and running tests - .travis.yml
<-- continuous integration config - _posts/
<-- Blog posts/news - _layouts/
<-- Jekyll layouts - _includes/
<-- Jekyll includes - _util/
<-- scripts etc- _util/extract-metadata.py
<-- tool for working with .md files
- _util/extract-metadata.py
NEW!: See this FAQ entry for simple web-based editing of metadata
Please edit the source files in the ontology/ directory only.
For example:
Each md file consists of
- YAML metadata
- Markdown text to be shown on the page for that ontology
For example:
---
layout: ontology_detail
id: aeo
title: Anatomical Entity Ontology
contact:
email: J.Bard@ed.ac.uk
label: Jonathan Bard
description: AEO is an ontology of anatomical structures that expands CARO, the Common Anatomy Reference Ontology
domain: anatomy
homepage: http://www.obofoundry.org/wiki/index.php/AEO:Main_Page
products:
- id: aeo.owl
---
AEO is an ontology of anatomical structures that expands CARO, the Common Anatomy Reference Ontology, to about 200 classes using the is_a relationship; it thus provides a detailed type classification for tissues. The new classes were chosen for their use in categorizing the major vertebrate and invertebrate anatomy ontologies at a granularity adequate for tissues of a single cell type. The ontology should be useful in increasing the amount of knowledge in anatomy ontologies, facilitating annotation and enabling interoperability across anatomy ontologies
The aeo page shows the structured info on the right and the formatted text on the right. (THIS IS A BAD EXAMPLE IT HAS NO FORMATTING)
The YAML data is strictly vetted by OBO team. The Makefile takes care
of syntactic validation (the travis job runs make test). The OBO
team ensures the content is correct, up to date and accurate.
You can put any HTML or Markdown in the lower section - customize each ontology page!
Note that each md file is the primary source for the metadata for each ontology. It may seem odd to mix the markdown in with the yaml, but in practice this works well and is easy to mainpulate using the python script in the util/ directory.
The one piece of visual info in the md is the layout field, which is necessary for Jekyll.
OBO admins should periodically
git pull
make
jekyll server
## open 127.0.0.1:4000 in a web browser and spot-check changes
git commit -m 'regenerated derived files' -a
git push origin master
See the Makefile for details. This will have the effect of
regenerating the main ontologies yaml (used by external consumers such
as OLS, as well as the central OBO library build), as well as the
GitHub pages _config.yml file. This last step is necessary to update
the front page.
The yaml is all "YAML-LD" and can compile down to RDF/OWL using a generic translator (eg JENA) plus our context file.
Note that general OBO users are free to edit via the github web interface and make a pull request. They can update their own entries, but they are also welcome to suggest changes elsewhere.
On the live site, each page has links to view source and edit source. This makes use of githubs builtin editing facility
For example:
Note that joe randoms cannot just come in and update things. Anyone with a github ID can make pull request (aka PR). It is up to the OBO team whether the PR may be merged or rejected.
Note that if you make a syntax error whilst editing, then the travis check will fail. Your PR will have a big red X next to it, in which case the OBO team will not merge your PR. Don't worry, all you have to do is make further edits to fix the syntax error.
TODO: add a quick guide to yaml, and the tags we use.
The central OBO build runs here:
It takes as metadata input the yml file from this repository. It makes
use of the build object.
The output of this job is a set of obo and owl files deposited in
Depending on the build configuration, this may also make additional files. See for example:
A http://berkeleybop.org/ontologies/ URL should never be handed out directly. This service exists so that:
- Un PURL-registered ontologies will have a fall-through
- Registered PURL ontologies that do not want to take charge of either OBO or OWL generation will have a place to 302-redirect to
Simply add a post to the _posts/ directory - copy an exiting one if you like
Posts can also be edited via the GH web interface, all posts are here:
https://github.com/OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io/tree/master/_posts
Consult online Jekyll docs for details. Basically you just do
gem install jekyll
(I am currently using Jekyll 2.5.3)
You can run a local test install from the top level directory
jekyll serve
Then open http://127.0.0.1:4000
Every commit is visible within a few minutes on: http://obofoundry.github.io
You may want to work on a branch to avoid disrupting the live site. Exact procedures for accepting changes back into master have yet to be determined. See CONTRIBUTING.md for a draft.
The setup is fairly standard for Jekyll. We use Jekyll bootstrap (bootstrap 3). We try and keep things minimal so that the site will work on github. Even if you have no knowledge of Jekyll, it is fairly easy to introspect what is going on if you have done much CMS work or web development.
Basics:
- source can be markdown or html
- Different styles of pages go in _layouts
- ...
See also the main FAQ on the website: this FAQ is for OBO internal people
File an issue! Or better yet, make a change on a fork and make a PR!
We should definitely have some mechanism for syncing these or allowing this option. However, for the majority of ontologies for which I (cjm) are de-facto administrating, the expertise and time to do this in OWL is not there, and many groups prefer to have this centralized.