Slices allow users to interact (both via API or UI) only with a subset of ontologies in OntoPortal-Astro. If browsing the slice, all the portal features will be restricted to the chosen subset, enabling users to focus on their specific use cases. On OntoPortal-Astro, slices and groups are synchronized, so every group has a corresponding slice displaying only the ontologies from that group.
The OntoPortal Alliance (https://ontoportal.org/) is a consortium of research and infrastructure teams dedicated to promoting the development of ontology repositories and semantic artefact catalogues based on the open, collaboratively developed OntoPortal software (https://github.com/ontoportal). Hereafter are the current public and open repositories built with the technology maintained by the Alliance.