Standardize http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/hp#layperson to OMO:0003003

[cthoyt]

This is part of the campaign to standardize synonym type definitions across the OBO Foundry: OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io#2450

I would like to replace the ad-hoc synonym type http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/hp#layperson for layperson synonyms with the new OMO standard OMO:0003003 "layperson synonym"

This will improve the ability of tools that care about synonym types to better leverage HP's content. Further, it is part of a more general effort to reduce the number of hash IRIs across OBO ontologies.

If this gets good feedback, I will follow-up with other issues about additional synonym updates including:

• http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/hp#uk_spelling
• http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/hp#obsolete_synonym

[pnrobinson]

Can you present the OMO resource on an upcoming Monarch call? I am open to linking this, but worried that it will introduce more complications in Protege and not sure there is a big audience for this at the present.

[cthoyt]

@pnrobinson yes, I can give an outline of what I've been working on across the oboverse. In the mean time, I made a proof of concept PR in #10241.

None of the other OBO ontologies where we made this update (CL, UBERON, NCBITAXON, ENVO, etc.) have had any issues with protege as far as I know.

[pnrobinson]

Hi @cthoyt
it seems every time changes like this are made, multiple errors occur with protege, and I am not sure there is any use case right now. I would suggest let's wait until a user asks for this feature for something. I am struggling to get the annotation done and need to be choosy fwiw to avoid too much insanity