main NCIt no longer downloadable from its ontology IRI

[balhoff]

@fragosog I have previously obtained the latest NCIt from its ontology IRI http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl. Today I'm getting an error:

curl: (7) Failed to connect to ncicb.nci.nih.gov port 80: Operation timed out

Is this an intentional change, or temporary? Thanks!

[fragosog]

I've sent a query to the systems group. The site is up but the certs have expired and might have been blocked outside the network (hopefully it's just that and we don't require another waiver for the server). If this site becomes problematic I can point you to the zip distributions (or if you can switch to them let me know). I'll update you as soon as I find out.

[balhoff]

Thanks Gilberto—I've seen the downloads at https://evs.nci.nih.gov/ftp1/NCI_Thesaurus/ but I like to use the ontology IRI because it always points to the latest (I don't see a non-version-specific zip).

[fragosog]

Hi Jim, I never got an answer from the IT group. But checking with wget I noticed that the IRI redirects to http://evs.nci.nih.gov/ftp1/rdf/Thesaurus.owl, which I forgot was there. It's the URL that NCBO uses for its automated downloads as well.