Ontological term broker/BulkRequest

The  BulkRequest  data stucture is returned to the ontology maintainer from a GET request to the /bulk-requests URL. This file-format is derived from the Bulk Request File Format which we have worked with PRO to develop.

The file is a tab-delimited text file; for any field with multiple values, the values are separated by the pipe ("|") character. The fields are given in the following table, along with a description of their type and how they are derived from the term Requests or Metadata objects submitted to the broker.

The file is downloaded by the ontology maintainer, who adds new columns containing the decision (status change, comment, etc) for each term request in the file. The modified file is then re-uploaded as the bulk response file.