Why not simply use to following trick on top of universal symbols?
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rdfs:label="Mann" lang="ge"
rdfs:label="mâle" lang="fr"
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Eric
2008/5/28 Jack Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>:
In cross-language data integration, it may be a simple matter of
using a
multitude of language-scoped labels in an ontology. Another approach
that has been mentioned on this list many moons back by the late
Bill
Bugg was that of applying topic maps to the federation of
heterogeneous
resources, including disparate ontologies that don't easily
merge, and
data sets. Bill was referring to some of my work. Topic maps
provide the
ability to apply as many different names to some entity as
necessary for
all participants to successfully locate what they seek. At the same
time, topic maps can federate each entity with external comments,
dialogues (such as this email message), bookmarks (tags) and
relationships with other entities.
Jack
Xiaoshu Wang wrote:
> Huajun [EMAIL PROTECTED] University wrote:
>> Another challenge is cross-language data integration, which is
actually a
>> job that ontology should do.
>>
> I honestly disagree. Ontology is about the semantics of *being*
but that
> of symbols. It doesn't matter if how "gene" is called, named, or
> written. It symbolize the same objective entities. A URI such as
> http://www.example.com is not written in English. It is just a
bunch of
> symbols. Let's not introduce linguistic issues into data
integration,
> which already have a lot of issues.
>
> Xiaoshu Wang
>> Best wishes, huajun
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>> 主题: Re: KB note
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>>> Speaking of national boundaries, I wonder if alternative
medicine (e.g.,
>>> herbal
>>> medicine) would also be of interest to this community. For
example,
>>> Huperzine
>>> is a drug derived from the herb Huperzia serrata. I also
wonder if there
>>> are
>>> hypotheses regarding the study of herbs in the possible
treatment of
>>> neurological diseases.
>>>
>> I would also be very motivated to help in this kind of research.
>> Specifically, Huperzine A would be a very interesting use-case
for our
>> developments. It is a herbal compound with a history in folk
medicine and is
>>
>> available OTC in most countries, yet it rivals the
effectiveness of
>> currently leading Alzheimer medications such as Tacrine. It
also has a dual
>> mode of action that does not only involve acetylcholinesterase
inhibition,
>> but also modulation of the NMDA receptor. The implications of
this for the
>> treatment of Alzheimer's are still a rather hot topic.
>>
>> The integration of knowledge from traditional medicine, plant
>> taxonomy/phylogeny/biochemistry and receptor binding databases
(PDSP Ki
>> database, IUPHAR) could lead to the identification of some
extremely novel
>> therapeutic strategies. Finding candidate molecules in such a
way might be
>> much more effective than weeding through libraries of compounds
generated by
>>
>> combinatorial synthesis etc. The challenge lies in the
integration of some
>> very heterogenous datasets that come from vastly different
disciplines,
>> which is exactly the field of research where Semantic Web
technologies are
>> most effective.
>>
>> I guess the major problem for this kind of research is that
there are no
>> funding programmes that span China, the US and Asia...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Matthias Samwald
>>
>> DERI Galway, Ireland // Semantic Web Company, Austria
>> http://www.deri.ie/
>> http://www.semantic-web.at/
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