Re: URIs

I would like to add that I happen to think that Barry Smith's work on mereotopology [1], the information flow framework [2] based on the work of Barwise et al., and even the obscure works of Zippie Gonczarowski [3] all warrant consideration in light of interest in the category-theoretic appro

Re: URIs

Oops - I forgot to add... Again - in this area, I think the TMRM work Jack Park has mentioned may turn out to be extremely useful. Several folks have already begun to look for ways to bridge that formalism with RDF. He makes some mention of this in early posts and had some additional ins

2nd CFP: KR-MED 2006 "Biomedical Ontology in Action"

___ Apologies for cross-posting Please forward it to everyone who might be interested ___ 2nd Call fo

Re: URIs

Another fantastic citation worth it's weight in gold and definitely relevant to the long-term goal here of creating an algorithmic means to express - and then operate on - biomedical knowledge! Many thanks, Bob. I've already passed on your "hedging" reference to several other colleagues

RE: URI thoughts

> If you or someone adds a new property to their base graph, > the basic RDF model will allow merging, but that will not > prevent inconsistencies( or "opinions") from being added. We > will eventually have to address these issues of provenance, Agree. Provenance is an important issue in an o

HCLS/WebClosureSocialConvention Wiki

I started a Wiki on social conventions for guiding the dereferencing of URIs in arbitrary RDF graph instances (using established vocabulary terms) - per the URI thread: http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/WebClosureSocialConvention Chimezie Ogbuji Lead Systems Analyst Thoracic and Cardiovascular Sur

RE: URI thoughts

Xiaoshu , Hmmm... I see a possible reason why SW is often hard to understand from a data provider point of view Authority is the organization that has published annotated data, such as NCBI or SwissProt. For the foreseeable future, they will be responsible for curating and managing some

RE: URI thoughts

> > Assuming I have a RDF model of the follows. > > > > @prefix rdf: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#. > > @prefix dctype: http://dublincore.org/2003/12/08/dctype# > > > > > rdf:type dctype:Image. > > > > A simple model without any