Re: CAS, DUNS and LOD (was Re: Cost/Benefit Anyone? Re: Vote for my Semantic Web presentation at SXSW)

2011-08-23 Thread Gannon Dick
--- On Tue, 8/23/11, Patrick Durusau wrote: "The fact remains that even if we switched (miraculously) today to all new URI identifiers, we will be accessing literature using prior identifiers for a very long time. I suspect hundreds of years." Somewhere around 1890, I think, the amount of publ

Re: CAS, DUNS and LOD (was Re: Cost/Benefit Anyone? Re: Vote for my Semantic Web presentation at SXSW)

2011-08-23 Thread Gannon Dick
Either "Linked Data ecosystem" or "linked data Ecosystem" is a dangerously flawed paradigm, IMHO. You don't "improve" MeSH by flattening it, for example, it is what it is. Since CAS numbers are not a directed graph, an algorithmic transform to a URI (which *is* a directed graph) is risks the cr

Re: CAS, DUNS and LOD (was Re: Cost/Benefit Anyone? Re: Vote for my Semantic Web presentation at SXSW)

2011-08-23 Thread Patrick Durusau
John On 8/23/2011 9:05 AM, John Erickson wrote: This is an important discussion that (I believe) foreshadows how canonical identifiers are managed moving forward. Both CAS and DUNS numbers are a good example. Consider the challenge of linking EPA data; it's easy to create a list of toxic chemic

Re: CAS, DUNS and LOD (was Re: Cost/Benefit Anyone? Re: Vote for my Semantic Web presentation at SXSW)

2011-08-23 Thread John Erickson
This is an important discussion that (I believe) foreshadows how canonical identifiers are managed moving forward. Both CAS and DUNS numbers are a good example. Consider the challenge of linking EPA data; it's easy to create a list of toxic chemicals that are common across many EPA datasets. Based

Re: CAS, DUNS and LOD (was Re: Cost/Benefit Anyone? Re: Vote for my Semantic Web presentation at SXSW)

2011-08-23 Thread Patrick Durusau
David, On 8/22/2011 9:55 PM, David Booth wrote: On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 20:27 -0400, Patrick Durusau wrote: [ . . . ] The use of CAS identifiers supports searching across vast domains of *existing* literature. Not all, but most of it for the last 60 or so years. That is non-trivial and should no

Re: Reasoning Web Summer School Live Feed

2011-08-23 Thread Nuno Lopes
Hello all, Unfortunately we do not have the slides available at this time. Videos and slides will be available on Vimeo at a later stage. best regards, -- Nuno Lopes On 23 Aug 2011, at 09:54, Monika Solanki wrote: > Great!! > > Are slides available somewhere to download and follow with th

Reasoning Web Summer School Live Feed

2011-08-23 Thread Nuno Lopes
Dear all, The Seventh Reasoning Web Summer School [1] is being held at DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland. For those interested a live feed is available at [2]. The detailed program for the Summer School can be found at [3]. Best regards, -- Nuno Lopes [1] http://reasoningweb.org/2011/ [2] http://www