Actually, they do mention http://www.wikiprofessional.org/portal/ as a
note added in proof, and I think the main point of their paper was the
ability to make use of the large, already existing community that
edits Wikipedia, rather than, say, create a new domain-specific Wiki
with a much smaller pool of potential editors. It's fundamentally
about the long tail, and how to exploit it.
Regards
Rod
On 10 Jul 2008, at 17:07, Matthias Samwald wrote:
There are existing Wikis with RDF/OWL integration for the exact use
case described in that paper.
For example:
WikiProteins
http://genomebiology.com/2008/9/5/R89
http://www.wikiprofessional.org/portal/
BOWiki
http://bowiki.net/wiki/index.php/Main_page
It is quite amazing that Huss et al. failed to mention these
existing resources in their paper.
Matthias Samwald
DERI Galway, Ireland // Semantic Web Company, Austria
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Brickley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "w3c semweb hcls" <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 4:53 PM
Subject: 'Gene WIki' announced
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/80128,wikipedia-hosts-human-gene-repository.aspx
[[
U.S. scientists are developing a “Gene Wiki” with the aim of
fostering a
flexible, organic archive of human genetic information.
The project exists within Wikipedia, and is expected to speed up the
process of deciphering genome sequences.
According to Andrew Su, whose report of the project appears this
week in
the scientific journal PLoS Biology, the researchers were emboldened
to
develop the Wiki by Wikipedia’s “Be Bold” ethos.
]]
The full proposal is here:
http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0060175&ct=1
[[
A Gene Wiki for Community Annotation of Gene Function
Jon W. Huss III, Camilo Orozco, James Goodale, Chunlei Wu, Serge
Batalov, Tim J. Vickers, Faramarz Valafar, Andrew I. Su*
Citation: Huss III JW, Orozco C, Goodale J, Wu C, Batalov S, et al.
(2008) A Gene Wiki for Community Annotation of Gene Function. PLoS
Biol
6(7): e175 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060175
Published: July 8, 2008
]]
From a quick skim I don't see mention of W3C, RDF, Semantic Web etc
--- I was wondering if anyone here was involved and had contacts,
since
there's doubtless some overlap in interests and approach. In
particular
I was thinking that the Semantic MediaWiki extensions
(http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki) might be
useful
in bridging this work to other datasets.
thinking out loud,
Dan
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