RE: "Introductions" + "Any connotea users out there?"

2006-04-10 Thread Pierre LINDENBAUM
The connotea team has setup a wiki which can be used to create you own profile or to describe your team. As an example a short description of the "semweb-lifesci" group can be accessed at http://www.connotea.org/wiki/Group:semweb-lifesci or a user's profile is available at : http://www.connotea.or

Re: Ontology editor + why RDF?

2006-04-10 Thread Tom Stambaugh
Roger wrote: > Well, I myself am particularly interested in commercially available > products built on Semantic Web technology, but of course I'm not in the > life sciences so maybe that's not an interesting data point. As for > interoperable formats -- that sounds like a good thing, but you can

RE: Ontology editor + why RDF?

2006-04-10 Thread Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler)
Well, I myself am particularly interested in commercially available products built on Semantic Web technology, but of course I'm not in the life sciences so maybe that's not an interesting data point. As for interoperable formats -- that sounds like a good thing, but you can also get interoperabi

[BIONT] Teleconference April 11th - Date Correction!

2006-04-10 Thread Kashyap, Vipul
Date Correction! Thanks to Daniel Rubin for pointing this out!   SW_HCLS(BIO-ONTWG) SW Life Sciences IG Tuesday, 11 April 11:00am-12:15pm/ 15:00-16:15 UTC Zakim Bridge +1.617.761.6200, conference 24668 ("BIONT")   Agenda: - Refine Use Case -  Ontologization of Snomed –

RE: [BioRDF] Scalability

2006-04-10 Thread Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler)
If I were in your position I think that I would probably think seriously of trying the Oracle product, simply because they have one heck of a lot of experience building performant data slinging machines and the description of their techniques looks pretty interesting. I have received no renumerat

Re: [BioRDF] Scalability

2006-04-10 Thread M. Scott Marshall
Ora Lassila wrote: what kind of an in-memory database do you use? I have done some preliminary experiments with UniProt etc. data with about 2 million triples using our OINK browser (built using the Wilbur toolkit). Performance was very "interactive" (i.e., "snappy", notice my highly precise met

RE: Ontology editor + why RDF?

2006-04-10 Thread Waard, Anita de A (ELS-AMS)
In this discussion, I would be intersted in separating: A. WHO does what (and do they charge for it): - Who owns and distributes content (free for all vs. sold for a fee) - Who owns and distributes thesauri/ontologies (,,) - Who connects thesauri/ontologies to a) text (indexing) and b) other the