Import from web instead of local files

dic2owl/dic2owl/__init__.py

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 __version__ = "0.1.0"
 __author__ = "Jesper Friis"
 __author_email__ = "[email protected]"
+
+# Where versioned releases can be downloaded from
+release_site = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/emmo-repo/CIF-ontology/gh-pages/versions'

dic2owl/dic2owl/generate_cif.py

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 
 from CifFile import CifDic
 
+from __init__ import __version__, release_site
+
 
 def en(s):
     """Returns `s` converted to a localised string in english."""
@@ -36,9 +38,14 @@ class Generator:
         URI or file name of the cif_top ontology that will be imported.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, dicfile, base_iri, cif_top="cif_top.ttl"):
+    def __init__(self, dicfile, base_iri, cif_top=None):
         self.cd = CifDic(dicfile, do_dREL=False)
-        self.cif_top = ontology_dir() / cif_top
+        if not cif_top:
+            self.cif_top = f'{release_site}/{__version__}/cif_top.ttl'
+        elif cif_top.startswith('http'):
+            self.cif_top = cif_top
+        else:
+            self.cif_top = ontology_dir() / cif_top
         self.categories = set()
 
         # Load cif_top ontology