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### Technical
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- Term migration
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- If a term created by ontology A would have a more suitable home in ontology B, that term can be transferred to the other ontology. There are two mechanisms for doing this: (1) <i>Term adoption</i>, whereby the term retains the identifier from ontology A but is managed by ontology B (within the new identifier namespace); and (2) <i>Term deprecation/recreation</i>, whereby the term is obsoleted in ontology A and recreated in ontology B.
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- Give pros and cons of each mechanism
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- Give examples
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- Implications (licensing and other considerations)
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