Babelon is a simple standard for managing ontology translations and language profiles. Profiles are managed as TSV files, see for example https://github.com/obophenotype/hpo-translations/tree/main/babelon. The goal of Babelon as a data model and vocabulary is to capture the minimum data required to capture important metadata such as confidence and precision of translation.
babelon
Local identifiers in Babelon should match this
regular expression:
^[a-z][a-z0-9_]+[a-z0-9]$
Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Babelon should match
this regular expression:
^babelon:[a-z][a-z0-9_]+[a-z0-9]$
A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).
The local unique identifier translation_language is used to demonstrate the providers
available for Babelon. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below.
A guide for curating additional providers can be found
here.
| Name | Metaprefix | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Babelon | babelon |
https://w3id.org/babelon/translation_language |
| Bioregistry | bioregistry |
https://bioregistry.io/babelon:translation_language |