Re the "Incorporated Databases" section of http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ hcls/notes/kb/ :

1. Many of the sources are ontologies and other loosely structured objects, not databases. The section should be "incorporated data sources" or "incorporated knowledge sources". Actually the word I like is "information" because "knowledge" I find to be pretentious and "data" to me connotes "data sets" and unprocessed, bulk information, although I know that any information that's "given" to someone is technically data.

2. This table will be highly redundant with the planned appendix ("RDF bundle table"). Stylistically speaking all the information should appear either inline in the text, or only in the appendix.

3. Why is Medline not in the table? It forms over 2/3 of the triples we dealt with and was essential for the Banff demo.

About the note in general, I wonder if there's a way to shift the focus away from this particular artifact (a KB) and toward the purpose of the exercise - namely the process of putting stuff on the semantic web, and the benefits that ensue.

Best
Jonathan


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