Figure 2

Overview of TermGenie Components and Workflow. (1) Retrieve existing templates for user selection; (2) Term generation processing and validation; (2a) Generate textual data and OWL axioms; (2b) Use reasoning to check for existing classes and new or changed relations; (3) Review of generated classes by the user in the web interface; (4) After review, assign permanent identifiers to the new classes; (5) Add the new classes into the queue for review; (6) Senior ontology developers review the classes: accept, modify, obsolete; (7) Commit the changes to the ontology; (8) Send confirmation e-mail to the user.