Manual range mode

In this mode, the command will generate identifiers of the form prefixnum, where prefix is a user-specified IRI prefix and num is a numerical identifier picked sequentially within a given range.

This mode is controlled by the following options:

--minted-id-prefix prefix

Indicates the IRI prefix to use.

--min-id num

Indicates the lower bound (inclusive) of the range in which the numerical part of the identifiers should be picked.

--max-id num

Indicates the upper bound (exclusive) of the range. If this option is not specified, the default value is the value of --min-id + 1000.

--pad-width num

Indicates the number of digits in the numerical part of the identifiers to generate. The default value is 7.

When generating a new identifier, existing identifiers in the ontology are always checked to avoid inadvertently creating an identifier that is already in use.

Range-file based mode

This mode is similar to the “manual range mode“ above, except that the details about the range are provided by a ID range file, such as those automatically generated by the Ontology Development Kit and also used by the Protégé editor.

If your ontology uses such an ID range file, you can instruct the mint command to use one of the ranges it defines with the following two options:

--id-range-file file

Indicates the name of the ID range file.

--id-range-name name

Indicates the name of the range to use. This should match the value of the allocatedto annotation of one of the ranges defined in the file.

If a range name is not explicitly specified, the mint command will by default look for a range allocated to auto-minter.

If a file with a name that ends with -idranges.owl exists in the current working directory, and the manual mode has not been explicitly selected (with the ---minted-id-prefix option), the mint command will try to automatically use that file.