kei cheung wrote:
Hi Olivier,
Sorry, I missed part of your talk (the beginning part and the ending
part) as I needed to be at other meetings. Is Neuronames
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9410576&dopt=Abstract)
part of UMLS now? If so, does it make sense to convert (all or a
portion of) the Neuronames Brain Hierarchy into RDF/OWL instead of
converting the entire UMLS into RDF? It might be helfpul to our RDF
conversion efforts if they share the same neuroanatomical terminology.
Some version of Neuronames (1999) is integrated in the UMLS.
Converting one single vocabulary to RDF/OWL is likely to be much simpler
than converting the whole UMLS.
I don't know enough the specifics of Neuronames to be able to estimate
the difficulty of converting it to to RDF. At first glance, all
relations seem to be parent/child relations and it should be pretty trivial.
Attached below is the list of restrictions for "Category 3" vocabularies
in the UMLS. My understanding is that it wouldn't be possible to make
the RDFized version of Neuronames publicly available or even part of a
production system.
-- Olivier
From: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/license_appendix.html
12. 3. Category 3:
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