Failing ontologies on data load

[serjoshua]

OBO

Fixed	ID	Status	Download	Parsing	EBI Override	PURL	Notes	Pipeline Error
	cido	active	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cido.owl	failed import http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DrugsNoChEBI_interactions_with_targets.owl	[line: 2, col: 207] {E202} Expecting XML start or end element(s). String data "aeo.obo" not allowed. Maybe there should be an rdf:parseType='Literal' for embedding mixed XML content in RDF. Maybe a striping error.
	cto	active	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cto.owl		[line: 25, col: 32] {E201} Multiple children of property element
	cvdo	active	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cvdo.owl	failed import http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cvdo/external/doid_import.owl	[line: 2, col: 207] {E202} Expecting XML start or end element(s). String data "aeo.obo" not allowed. Maybe there should be an rdf:parseType='Literal' for embedding mixed XML content in RDF. Maybe a striping error.
	upheno	active	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/upheno.owl	failed import http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/upheno/upheno_root_alignments.owl	[line: 1, col: 1 ] Content is not allowed in prolog.
	mamo	orphaned	❌		✅	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/mamo.owl		[line: 17, col: 74] {E201} Multiple children of property element
	vario	orphaned	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/vario.owl		[line: 1, col: 1 ] Content is not allowed in prolog.
	olatdv	inactive	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/olatdv.owl		Not found
	pdumdv	inactive	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/pdumdv.owl		Not found
	rnao	inactive	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/rnao.owl	failed import http://www.obofoundry.org/ro/ro.owl	Not found
	dinto	inactive	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/dinto.owl		[line: 13, col: 4 ] {E201} The attributes on this property element, are not permitted with any content; expecting end element tag.
	eo	inactive	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/eo.owl		Not found
	epo	inactive	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/epo.owl		Not found
	ero	inactive	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ero.owl		[line: 4, col: 27] {E202} Expecting XML start or end element(s). String data "redirecting" not allowed. Maybe there should be an rdf:parseType='Literal' for embedding mixed XML content in RDF. Maybe a striping error.
	flu	inactive	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/flu.owl	failed import http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ido/2010-12-02/ido-main-workaround.owl	Not found
	mfo	inactive	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/mfo.owl		[line: 1, col: 3 ] The markup in the document preceding the root element must be well-formed.
	mirnao	inactive	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/mirnao.owl		Not found
	mo	inactive	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/mo.owl		[line: 2, col: 207] {E202} Expecting XML start or end element(s). String data "aeo.obo" not allowed. Maybe there should be an rdf:parseType='Literal' for embedding mixed XML content in RDF. Maybe a striping error.
	nmr	inactive	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/nmr.owl		[line: 2, col: 207] {E202} Expecting XML start or end element(s). String data "aeo.obo" not allowed. Maybe there should be an rdf:parseType='Literal' for embedding mixed XML content in RDF. Maybe a striping error.
	ogi	inactive	❌			http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ogi.owl		Not found
	sep	inactive	✅	❌		http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/sep.owl	redirects to http://ontologies.berkeleybop.org/sep.owl	Cannot read field "properties" because "this.ontologyNode" is null
	vhog	inactive	✅	❌		http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/vhog.owl	redirects to file points to http://ontologies.berkeleybop.org/vhog.owl	Cannot read field "properties" because "this.ontologyNode" is null

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EBI OLS Ontologies

Fixed	ID	Download	Parsing	PURL	Notes	Pipeline Error
	phi	❌		file:/nfs/panda/ensembl/production/ensprod/ontologies/phi/PHI.obo		Not found
	atol	❌		http://www.atol-ontology.com/public/telechargement/atol.owl		javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
	eol	❌		http://www.atol-ontology.com/public/telechargement/eol.owl		javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
	lbo	❌		http://data.bioontology.org/ontologies/LBO/download?apikey=8b5b7825-538d-40e0-9e9e-5ab9274a9aeb		Failed to determine the content type: (URI=http://data.bioontology.org/ontologies/LBO/download?apikey=8b5b7825-538d-40e0-9e9e-5ab9274a9aeb : stream=application/octet-stream)
	pride	❌		https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PRIDE-Utilities/pride-ontology/master/pride_cv.obo	migrate away from OBO	Failed to determine the content type: (URI=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PRIDE-Utilities/pride-ontology/master/pride_cv.obo : stream=text/plain)
	unimod	❌		http://www.unimod.org/obo/unimod.obo	migrate away from OBO	Failed to determine the content type: (URI=http://www.unimod.org/obo/unimod.obo : stream=null)
	hpath	❌		https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Novartis/hpath/master/src/hpath.obo	migrate away from OBO	Failed to determine the content type: (URI=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Novartis/hpath/master/src/hpath.obo : stream=text/plain)
	vido	❌		https://raw.githubusercontent.com/infectious-disease-ontology-extensions/ido-virus/master/ontology/vido.owl		[line: 23, col: 18] {E201} Multiple children of property element

Original spreadsheet

[serjoshua]

(1) The OLS4 dataloader is an RDF tool and therefore only supports loading RDF files. This means that other non-RDF OWL serialisations such as OBO format and OWL XML are never going to be supported (though of course they can be converted prior to loading). For these (very few) cases we can either ask the upstream ontology vendors to provide an RDF/XML file, or possibly outsource conversion to Robot.

(2) Though we support all the different RDF serializations, the majority of the ontologies are provided without any content-type or any useful file extension to indicate which serialization format they contain. For example, this ontology from the OLS config is Turtle, but the file extension is owl and the content-type is text/plain. No suggestion of Turtle encoding anywhere.

Even the OBO foundry ontologies do this. If we resolve for example http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ro.owl it redirects to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oborel/obo-relations/master/ro.owl. File extension: .owl, content-type is text/plain. While the file content is RDF/XML, there is nothing to suggest that it isn't, for example, OWL XML, or Turtle, or JSON-LD. We only know how to load it in OLS4 because RDF/XML is the hardcoded default.

Why does this work in Protegé and OLS3? Because OWLAPI literally bruteforce loads ontology files by trying every loader until it finds one which works.

While we could probably do something similar in OLS4, I think ultimately it is up to the ontology developers to provide correct metadata, if not by content-type then at least by file extension. The whole .owl thing is a mess. If it's RDF/XML it should be .xml and if it's Turtle it should be .ttl. OR if it really wants to be .owl it should be served up with a content-type.

So TL;DR I think we should continue to default to trying to read .owl files as whatever content-type is provided and falling back on RDF/XML.

Original comment

[matentzn]

I would recommend for the OBO ones:

1. Ignore all failing "inactive" or "orphaned" ontologies from obo, don't try to fix them. Just record that they don't parse, that's it. Only do anything about them if someone asks. The less ontologies there are, the better.
2. Make issues on the issue trackers for the active OBO ontologies to get their act together (linking to this issue), then stop trying to fix them (30 minutes of work for all of them).

[linikujp]

@serjoshua What do you recommend the failed ontologies that are .OWL to do? Resave things as .rdf file?

[jamesamcl]

Yes or use robot to convert them on the command line http://robot.obolibrary.org/

[jamesamcl]

Closing as the list is outdated now