Re: BioRDF [Telcon]

2006-05-12 Thread Susie Stephens
Don't forget Monday's BioRDF call. Call Details Date of Call: Monday May 15, 2006 Time of Call: 11:00am Eastern Time Dial-In #: +1.617.761.6200 (Cambridge, MA) Participant Access Code: 246733 ("BIORDF") IRC Channel: irc.w3.org port 6665 channel #BioRDF Duration: ~1 hour Agenda: Brian Gilman a

Re: GUIDs

2006-05-12 Thread Dan Corwin
Kevin Richards wrote: I have some questions from a related community. The community is a biodiversity inormatics group involved with creating data sharing and interoperability standards (TDWG Taxonomic Databases Working Group - www.tdwg.org ).. Interesting goals. Those

RE: proposal for standard NCBI database URI

2006-05-12 Thread Samir Tartir
Hi all, It all depends on the application. If the application needs each gene to be a separate entity, then there is no other way around it. If it is enough for the application to group genes according to some properties (e.g. type), then that is enough. Thanks, Samir Original message -

Re: [BioRDF] RDF at the BBC: An experimental prototype

2006-05-12 Thread AJ Chen
Duncan, Thanks for sharing the info.  Is their RDF or ontology vocab available to the public? I'm working on scientific publishing task, would be helpful to look at how they publish data in RDF. AJOn 5/12/06, Duncan Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HelloThis *might* be of interest to the BioRDF sub

[BIORDF] details for web presentation of the XML NLP output

2006-05-12 Thread Davide Zaccagnini
Topic: NLP-BIORDF Date: Monday, May 15, 2006 Time: 11:00 am, Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -04:00, New York) Meeting number: 705 703 022 Meeting password: nlpbiordf Zakim Bridge +1.617.761.6200, conference 246733 ("BIORDF") Please click the following link to see more information, or to join t

Re: proposal for standard NCBI database URI

2006-05-12 Thread Mark Wilkinson
I may be completely missing the point of this discussion, but I don't see the point of this discussion :-) What is represented by a URI is not defined by any convention or standard, and we shouldn't be trying to define it in this group. rdfs:type can tell us what the situation is at the

Re: proposal for standard NCBI database URI

2006-05-12 Thread chris mungall
On May 11, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Matthias Samwald wrote: Hmm, the 10^16 genes instantiated in the volume of space occupied by me are neither irrelevant (to me anyway), nor are they concepts. They are very real instances of physical material objects - at least under one definition of gene.

[BioRDF] RDF at the BBC: An experimental prototype

2006-05-12 Thread Duncan Hull
Hello This *might* be of interest to the BioRDF sub-group members who haven't seen it already. The link below has details of nearly a million BBC radio and TV programmes, dating back 75 years, described in RDF. http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/ There is lots of wonderful metadata, but unfor