ODK ROBOT Plugin

This is a ROBOT plugin intended to be used within the Ontology Development Kit (ODK). It provides additional ROBOT commands to perform tasks not covered by the built-in command set of ROBOT.

Available commands

Currently, the ODK ROBOT plugin provides the following commands:

odk:subset, to create ontology subsets;
odk:validate, to check the alignment of an ontology against an upper-level ontology;
odk:normalize, to perform various normalisation operations on an ontology.

Using with the ODK

The plugin is (or will be) provided with the ODK Docker image. To use it as part of a ODK workflow, all that is needed is to make the rule in which the plugin is to be used depend on the ODK built-in rule all_robot_plugins. This will make the plugin available in the repository’s src/ontology/tmp/plugins directory, which is already set, in ODK workflows, as the ROBOT plugins directory.

For example:

target.owl: source1.owl source2.owl | all_robot_plugins
        $(ROBOT) merge -i source1.owl -i source2.owl \
                 odk:subset --subset MY_SUBSET \
                            --output target.owl

The plugin can also be used outside of any ODK workflow, by manually instructing ROBOT to look for plugins into the /tools/robot-plugins/ directory (e.g. by setting the ROBOT_PLUGINS_DIRECTORY environment variable to that directory).

Copying

The ODK ROBOT plugin is distributed under the same terms as the Ontology Development Kit itself (3-clause BSD license). See the COPYING file in the source distribution.