Archivo retrieves ontologies exclusively from the web using their ontology URI.
The main rationale here is that we implemented the most common and standardized ways to access Ontologies
programmatically following Jon Postel: "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others".
This means, we already allow some irregularities and heterogeneity, when parsing the ontologies from the web. Then
again, we only do so up to a certain point, i.e. there is only so much, that you can patch in good faith.
If Archivo accepts the added ontology, it will be crawled every 8 hours and added to the persistent Ontology
Archive.
A ontology can be suggested via webform or HTTP POST request. Archivo will download and parse it, and if this succeeds
include it in
its
index for daily crawling.
Paste the URL of an OWL ontology here:
Alternatively you can use a HTTP POST request to suggest an ontology, like:
curl -X POST https://archivo.dbpedia.org/add --data-urlencode "suggestUrl=http://purl.org/example/ontology.owl"
The process will take some time to process, especially if the ontology has been accepted, so please be
patient.