Can I create Link between Objects Types of different Ontologies?

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I have multiple organizations, each with their own ontology, in particular a central one and multiple dedicated ones.

I want to create objects in one dedicated org/Ontology which would then have a link to the central org/Ontology.

Is it possible to have link between Objects of different Ontologies ?

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At the moment, no there is no way to do this. But we are tracking this as a feature request

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Adding a +1 for cross-ontology link types as a feature.

We have some large object types (e.g. anything with embeddings) which use a lot of ontology volume. In order to link them to objects in multiple ontologies, we have to duplicate the object in each ontology which is pretty wasteful.

With cross-ontology links we could place objects in a common multi-org ontology and link them to the two respective organization ontologies. I would expect the link to only be visible if the user could see the object type on both sides, and have permission on the link type itself.

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Hey - a workaround that I’ve done is to “fake link” the object types. Ie, instead of using search arounds, you can just filter by the primary/foreign.

For example, if object type A has a property that represents the PK of object type B, and you want to perform a search around from object set B to object set A, you can instead just filter object set A on its foreign key property, using the primary keys from object set B.

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