After discussing pros and cons of publishing the reference alignment of the OAEI anatomy track, we decided finally that it is time for this step. We had several requests over the last years. However, in the past we have been committed to the advantages of having a blind test instead of having a dataset that is completely free and allows for doing comprehensive tests to improve the matching algorithm and / or to find a good configuration. While it is hard to avoid any kind of overfitting - especially when the number of available datasets with a gold standard is limited - it is clear that an open dataset can help a developer of a matching systems a lot to increase recall and precision of the system in a way that will also work in general or at least for ontologies from a similar domain.

The reference alignment is available now via the OAEI webpages of the anatomy track.

We would like to gratefully thank Martin Ringwald and Terry Hayamizu (Mouse Genome Informatics), who provided us not only with an initial reference alignment for the matching task of the anatomy track, but also allowed us to publish the material now.

Best regards,
The organizers of the OAEI anatomy track.