Unable to override the default property setting for preferred labels

[jvendetti]

The maintainers of the PCL ontology set a custom property for preferred names, indicating that they want to use rdfs:label instead of skos:prefLabel:

Despite having set this custom property, BioPortal continues to display the values of skos:prefLabel for preferred names, instead of the values of rdfs:label. Use the following class as an example:

<!-- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PCL_0011001 -->

<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PCL_0011001">
  ...
  <rdfs:label rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">Lamp5-like Pax6 primary motor cortex GABAergic interneuron (Mus musculus)</rdfs:label>
  <skos:prefLabel rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">Lamp5-like Pax6</skos:prefLabel>
</owl:Class>

When you view this class in the class tree, BioPortal lists the Preferred Name property as "Lamp5-like Pax6", which is the value of the skos:prefLabel:

Here is the corresponding REST call:

http://data.bioontology.org/ontologies/PCL/classes/http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.obolibrary.org%2Fobo%2FPCL_0011001?include=prefLabel&display_links=false&display_context=false

[jvendetti]

I verified in an ncbo_cron console session that the OntologySubmission object correctly recorded the preferred label property:

> sub = LinkedData::Models::OntologySubmission.find(RDF::URI.new('http://data.bioontology.org/ontologies/PCL/submissions/12')).first
> sub.bring_remaining
> sub.prefLabelProperty
=> #<RDF::URI:0x20f3848(http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label)>

I reprocessed the ontology and cleared the application caches, but this had no effect.

[shawntanzk]

Thanks for looking into this :) really appreciate it!