Kei,
The entry for Telencephaolon redirects to Cerebrum, which suggests that
'telencephalon' and 'cerebrum' are synonyms that refer to the same thing /
the same class of things. Reflecting on the neuroscientific literature I
read, the term 'telencephalon' is more often used in context of the
developing brain, while the term 'cerebrum' is more often used in the
context of the adult brain.
owl:sameAs or owl:equivalentClass might be ok here, but I would need to
analyze the literature more thoroughly. Alternatively, a relationship such
as 'Cerebrum derives_from Telencephalon' could be stated (derives_from is a
relation defined in the relation ontology [1]).
Cheers,
Matthias
[1] http://www.obofoundry.org/ro/#OBO_REL:derives_from
Matthias,
In DBPedia, the following pages describe 2 brain regions (Telencephalon
and Cerebrum):
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Telencephalon
http://dbpedia.org/page/Cerebrum
NIFSTD is listed as one of the neuroscience ontologies through BioPortal,
its description of cerebrum is available at:
http://bioportal.bioontology.org/visualize/39595/p15:birnlex_1042
If you read the editorial note (written by Bill Bug), it says:
"It isn't clear all would agree Cerebrum and Telencephalon are
equivalent."
Should we use "sameAs" or something else?
Cheers,
-Kei
Matthias Samwald wrote:
Question: Does a mapping between DBpedia and the OBO ontologies exist?
Has someone already invested some time in doing this, or at least
reviewed how to best approach it?
Given the central position of DBpedia in the linked data cloud and its
rich content in the biomedical domain, creating such a mapping is an
obvious (and very useful) thing to do.
Cheers,
Matthias Samwald
DERI Galway, Ireland
http://deri.ie/
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Austria
http://kli.ac.at/