> Deliverables: > Ontology for publishing projects and experiments. There are > some domain-specific ontologies, such as microarray experiment > ontology, already existed today. This task is intended to develop > a general purpose ontology for describing projects and > experiments in such a way that search and comparison of > components of experiments is possible.
I don't think that it is necessary to develop a new ontology for the task you have proposed. It would be sufficient and already quite impressive to develop a system that harvests and aggregates existing ontologies AND the ontologies that are developed in the other Tasks. I think having souch a system would be of great benefit to the other tasks, because it would demonstrate one of the main advantages of the RDF standards. It would probably suffice to have a main portal that aggregates RDF from a fixed set of websites and allows to explore the aggregated RDF with something like OINK [1]. On a sidenote, I would suggest that any RDF that is put online during the project should be submitted to Swoogle for faster indexing: http://swoogle.umbc.edu/index.php?option=com_swoogle_service&service=submit The Swoogle web-interface is not something that could be used for a demonstration of RDF to scientists, though. At the time, it is mainly useful for Semantic Web developers. kind regards, Matthias Samwald [1] http://www.lassila.org/blog/archive/2006/03/oink.html
