Re: XML vs. RDF

2006-07-17 Thread William Bug
Thanks, Glen.  These refereed publications are extremely helpful.As most on this list probably know, this debate has raged for sometime over the past 5+ years.If you want to cast a wider net, try "XML vs RDF" in Google.  I'm not suggesting this is the best way of thinking about the issue of when &

Re: HCLSIG meetup at AAAI'06 in Boston

2006-07-17 Thread Duncan Hull
Jim Hendler wrote: I'd be happy to join as well. All set for Tuesday then. There is also an informal drinks reception to open the conference today (Monday) 6pm at the World Trade Center in Boston. Duncan -- Duncan Hull http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~hulld/ Phone: +44 (0) 161 275 0677

Re: XML vs. RDF

2006-07-17 Thread Glen Newton - NRC/CNRC CISTI/ICIST Research
Some articles from researchers who appear to not like RDF and the direction the Semantic Web is headed (for balance): "The Pragmatic Web: A Manifesto" Mareike Schoop,Aldo de Moor, Jan L.G. Dietz http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1125944.1125979 Communications of the ACM archive 2006, Volume 49 , Issu

Re: Distributed ontology development

2006-07-17 Thread Mark Musen
Agreed. Multi-user support is not the same as computer support for collaborative work. Indeed, we are hoping that our upcoming grant will enable us to explore that space a bit as well. Mark On Jul 17, 2006, at 4:00 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: "MM" == Mark Musen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: Distributed ontology development

2006-07-17 Thread Phillip Lord
> "MM" == Mark Musen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> On Jul 10, 2006, at 11:40 PM, William Bug wrote: >> However, there doesn't appear to be a means within the OBO/NCBO >> community for doing this sort of distributed ontology design >> right now. Two of the tools in wide spread use -

Re: Distributed ontology development (was Ontology entity IDs)

2006-07-17 Thread Mark Musen
On Jul 16, 2006, at 9:36 PM, William Bug wrote:Are you referring to the JDBC Protégé (http://protege.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?JdbcDatabaseBackend), or are there other ways of connecting Protégé to an RDBMS backend?  That's the JDBC backend, Bill.It certainly is a hurculean task to work out the O-R