Deliverable Report D2.1 Framework and Infrastructure for Ontology development, versioning and dissemination

The eNanoMapper project aims to build an ontology and database to collate and describe data relevant for “safe by design” engineered nanomaterial development. Work Package 2 of this effort will develop and disseminate a comprehensive ontology for the nanosafety domain, encompassing nanomaterials and all information relating to their characterization, as well as relevant experimental paradigms, biological interactions and safety information. This deliverable report describes the technical infrastructure that has been created in order to support the development, versioning and dissemination of the ontology. The technical infrastructure also supports the process of the re-use of existing ontologies, as the eNanoMapper objective is to fully harness pre-existing efforts thus avoiding unnecessary and divisive re-implementation. At the same time, re-use poses challenges, thus, our technical infrastructure has been created such as to support modular incorporation of external content from multiple sources while removing duplication and contradictions that can arise from integration. We have implemented an infrastructure for extensive unit and integration testing to ensure that changes in underlying source ontologies do not break the coherence of our offering. All of these aspects are described in this report.