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Most source loads can be easily accomplished by pointing either the command line script or the lbGUI interface at the source file and running the loader.   Generic loading instructions can be found in the administrative gui guide or the administrative command line guide, but for many sources you can use a variation of the following command line:

Code Block

 ./LoadOWL.sh -in file:///ontologies/owl/amino-acid.owl

Substituting the loader script for the needed format and any path needed to point the loader to a local source file.

.   Some sources are special cases and need special handling.  Included in this category are the NCI Thesaurus in OWL format and any files loaded from UMLS RRF formatted sources.  The NCI MetaThesaurus is the largest terminology we load and as such it also requires special handling.  OWL terminologies do not normally require special handling, but LexEVS offers some advanced loading options users can take advantage of if so desired. At the bottom of the page we link to tutorials for each of these.

Loading larger terminologies can be very time and resource consuming and this can be helped by following recommendations for database optimization and for proper configuration of the lbconfig.props file. 

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