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].