Excellent remarks, David! Scott, your draft has coming along very nicely, and I believe it will help creating additional excitement among the linked data community. With a couple of compelling use cases we will be able to convince the skeptics that this is the road to go.
Erich -----Original Message----- From: David Booth [mailto:da...@dbooth.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 2:17 PM To: M. Scott Marshall Cc: HCLS; biohackat...@googlegroups.com; linkedlifedatapracticesn...@googlegroups.com; public-...@w3.org Subject: Re: Fwd: HCLS IG Note on mapping and publishing life sciences RDF On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 21:16 +0100, M. Scott Marshall wrote: [ . . . ] > IG Note (Draft) HCLS IG Note on mapping and publishing life sciences > RDF [1] > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XzdsjCfPylcyOoNtDfAgz15HwRdCD-0e0i > xh21_U0y0/edit?hl=en_US Nice work on this! A couple of small editorial suggestions: 1. AFAICT the phrases "a posteriori" and "a priori" are being misused to mean "afterward" and "beforehand". These terms actually mean: http://www.onelook.com/?w=a+posteriori&ls=a a posteriori: "involving reasoning from facts or particulars to general principals or from effects to causes ("A posteriori demonstration")' http://www.onelook.com/?w=a+priori&ls=a a priori: 'involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact ("An a priori judgment")' 2. The intro mentions that "a query for Homo sapiens gene label "Alg2" in Entrez Gene (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene) returns multiple results. Among them is one gene located in chromosome 5 (Entrez ID:85365) and the other in chromosome 9 (Entrez ID:313231), each with multiple aliases". But the results that I see show ID:85365 as the ID for the one on chromosome 9, and the other one (maybe?) has ID 10016: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene?term=Alg2[sym]%20homo%20sapiens Thanks! -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.
