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Description
Interface Summary | |
CandyFinder | This interface is a main entry point to a set of controlled vocabularies. |
CandyVocabulary | This interface defines functionality of a controlled vocabulary. |
Class Summary | |
CandyEntry | This is a basic container for a vocabulary entry. |
The data structures and interfaces included in this package define an interoperable framework for simple controlled vocabularies.
When describing and representing domain-specific systems, there is frequently a need for a string type that can only assume a limited set of allowed values, a set, however, that is allowed to change over time (as values are added or removed) or space (different servers accepting different sets of strings). This need is addressed by this package.
A reference implementation of the controlled vocabularies was developed at European Bioinformatics Institute as an open source project candy.
The controlled vocabulary package consists of
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