Package management

In our dependency management system, there are 4 main "artifacts"

• The input ontology file
• The ontology metadata (extracted from the ontology file), which includes among others:
  • The name of the ontology
  • The version of the ontology
  • The dependencies of the ontology (name + version specification of each)
• The dependency lockfile (generated from the metadata + data from the registry), which contains a set of resolved dependencies
• The materialized workspace (generated from lockfile + downloads from registry):
  • Modified input ontology file that contains OWL imports to the specified dependencies
  • Downloaded dependencies
  • Catalog file, that helps Protege to find the downloaded dependencies

Process

For a full documentation of the package management process see [doc_process].