Hi,
I've recently played around with BioRDF and LODD datasets. I must say
I'm impressed by the number of datasets available. It's good to see how
the linked data can lead to interesting queries allowing to discover new
information. I particularly like the TCM examples [1].
I have a concern regarding the vocabularies used to published datasets.
On one side it seems there are plenty of biomedical ontologies like the
ones on the bioportal, but on the other side there are many datasets
that each use its own native schema without referring to these ontologies.
Is there for example a reason why 'drugs' concepts in Dailymed and
Drugbank are different ? Why not reusing an existing ontology describing
drugs ? Is there actually a set of datasets reusing the same ontology/ies ?
I'm actually working on ontology alignment so I'd be glad to help in the
aligning task. I must however admit that I'm not very knowledgeable in
the biomediacal domain.
Cheers,
François
[1] http://code.google.com/p/junsbriefcase/wiki/RDFTCMData
