Re: Introduction: Jonathan Rees

2006-04-20 Thread Brian Osborne
Jonathan, Perhaps the greatest of all! Brian O. On 4/20/06 3:36 AM, "Jonathan Rees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > entomology is a life science, isn't it?

[CFP]International Workshop on Semantic e-Science - 1st CFP

2006-04-20 Thread Yimin Wang
International Workshop on Semantic e-Science 3rd September, 2006, Beijing, China. (SeS2006), co-located with ASWC2006http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/SeS2006/===Call for PapersIn the successful series of Semantic Grid and e-Science e

Introduction: Jonathan Rees

2006-04-20 Thread Jonathan Rees
I've been lurking on this list for over a year, so it's probably time for me to post my self-introduction. I work for Science Commons on the NeuroCommons (http://neurocommons.org/), a pilot project to develop and promote some of the ideas behind Science Commons (http://sciencecommons.org/). The N

RE: wiki page for semantic web ROI

2006-04-20 Thread Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler)
OK, so how about making up a plausible and specific story -- perhaps adding onto this one -- and attach $'s to it somehow?   What the heck is a nonlinear reduction formula? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 1:28 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EM

Re: BioRDF [Telcon]

2006-04-20 Thread Susie Stephens
Don't forget Monday's BioRDF call. Agenda - Brian Osborne will be describing his experiences with using D2RQ for converting SMID into RDF - Olivier Bodenreider will be discussing his ideas for converting OMIM and/or Entrez Gene into RDF - AOB Call Details Date of Call: Monday April 24, 2006

RE: wiki page for semantic web ROI

2006-04-20 Thread helen . chen
Hi, Roger Good story. I would like to "dream" about one more important benefit that might come out of semantic web: the re-usable knowledgebase. In your calculation, "Supposing that a large company might have fifty such issues to research per year, we find a $5.5M expense being reduced to $0.5

RE: [BioRDF] Project Proposal - Warning - NOT TERSE

2006-04-20 Thread Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler)
I would like to highlight the analysis below of "blocking factors" (in the second Q&A). IMO this is the most succinct, acccurate and useful statement of this sort I have seen. I would particularly like to agree with "the community needs to know why RDF is needed above and beyond traditional RDBM

RE: wiki page for semantic web ROI

2006-04-20 Thread Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler)
It seems to me that Davide's case study can pretty easily be made into an ROI story titled something like "Computer Aided Literature Searches". I'm obviously not the one to do this for real, since I don't know enough about the subject matter to talk about it convincingly, but let me take a crack a

Minutes from April 6 TC

2006-04-20 Thread Eric Neumann
Apologies for not having sent these out sooner: http://www.w3.org/2006/04/06-hcls-minutes.html Eric

Re: wiki page for semantic web ROI

2006-04-20 Thread Eric Neumann
Thanks Alan, This is certainly the kind of benefits story that has ROI potential. The pieces I would still need to collect are: 1) What was the approximate savings in time and cost by doing this using OWL vs. the more traditional way 2) What are some of the later realized costs of using error