Purpose of the "orphans" directory

[ronaldtse]

@BrodeurJS we have a question on what the "orphans" directory (link) is used for.

• It seems like it contains files (appropriate to its name) not belonging to any particular ontology.

• Is that resource temporary, or it’s expected to be existing normally?

If it’s inevitable, can we rearrange the data so that “orphans” is not located among ontologies? It would allow for a more elegant solution if directory contents were homogenous & we could treat each subdirectory as an ontology, with ontology ID as subdirectory name.

Thanks!

Originally from: ISO-TC211/jekyll-theme-isotc211#6 (comment)

[jetgeo]

I will let @BrodeurJS decide this, just a few comments about the origin of the directory. The «Orphans» directory is derived from the package with the same name in the Harmonized UML model. The elements in that package were put there during a cleanup of the model. They do not belong to any standard, but they may have been used in some models. They will hopefully be removed from the HM after a new cleanup.

[BrodeurJS]

The "orphan" ontology is required to make any other ontology working. In UML, several model have used types that were not defined in their model. To make the UML model complete, these types have been defined in an orphan package since they are not part of any other ISO/TC 211 package. Once the cleanup of the Harmonized Model will be completed maybe this package will be not relevant in the future except if old ontology versions are made available. Le 2019-08-15 à 01:00, Knut Jetlund a écrit :

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