focus: review and refine SPE requirements

2006-07-08 Thread AJ Chen
Hi All, Hope everyone have had lots of fun exchanging ideas on the topic of scientific publishing. It's also clear this is a very complex area, which has several distinct directions you can take. And I'm sure the debate can go on forever in each of the directions. In such a situation, we need to fo

RE: "factoring out" in the construction of FuGO = the search for "universals"

2006-07-08 Thread Xiaoshu Wang
--William, > Can you provide a more specific example. In the formalism > being applied in the FuGO curation process, the only nodes > which would map to ':foo' this N3 triplet would be > ':independent_continuant' and ':dependent_continuant', and I > can't think of any instance data that will

Re: XML vs. RDF

2006-07-08 Thread William Bug
Thanks for your feedback, John.Please see below for comments.Cheers,BillOn Jul 8, 2006, at 9:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Bill,To your point: A lot of the counter arguments to these statements comedown to: I) if you try to perform semantically-based  KE/KR/KD with XML-only,  you will have a lot m

Re: "factoring out" in the construction of FuGO = the search for "universals"

2006-07-08 Thread William Bug
Please see below for inline comments.Cheers,BillOn Jul 8, 2006, at 8:06 AM, Xiaoshu Wang wrote: To use the example you have chosen, for an anatomist to want to use FuGO and be ontological compatible, they need only use an ontology founded on the same definition of continuants & occurents.  How does

Re: XML vs. RDF

2006-07-08 Thread jbarkley
Bill, To your point: > A lot of the counter arguments to these statements come > down to: > I) if you try to perform semantically-based KE/KR/KD > with XML-only, > you will have a lot more code to write & maintain > YOURSELF - and much > of it will reproduce what you'd get automatical

RE: "factoring out" in the construction of FuGO = the search for "universals"

2006-07-08 Thread Xiaoshu Wang
> To use the example you have chosen, for an anatomist to want > to use FuGO and be ontological compatible, they need only use > an ontology founded on the same definition of continuants & > occurents. How does this differ from what I think you are > claiming. An anatomist need not necessari

Re: XML vs. RDF

2006-07-08 Thread Chimezie Ogbuji
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, William Bug wrote: Dear Philip, Many thanks for this concise and accessible qualification to Chimezie's explanation. I was a little crest-fallen when I saw his original answer to Trish, and thought I really had misunderstood an issue that is becoming of very significan

RE: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/URN

2006-07-08 Thread Sean Martin
Hello Xiaoshu, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/07/2006 11:32:58 AM: > > In short, the myth of URN vs. URL is in our perception but not in actuality. > W3C's recommendation to use URI, as opposed to use URN and URL, to refer all > http, ftp, lsid, mailto, etc., is a good first step. As an identifi