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

2006-07-30 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
On Jul 25, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Phillip Lord wrote: But if the file you are referencing is, say 5Tb, then it doesn't work in a browser at all. With LSID's on the other hand, you may get back a choice of methods to access the data, including one which can cope with 5Tb of data. Could this specif

Re: A precedent suggesting a compromise for the SWHCLS IG Best Practices (ARK)

2006-07-30 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
Excellent response! I 95% heartedly agree (all but the "I stand by LSIDS part" :) I will note however that whenever there are versions of something, there tends to some concept of the thing that they are versions of. So even though there are versions of the sequence, there ought to stil

Re: A precedent suggesting a compromise for the SWHCLS IG Best Practices (ARK)

2006-07-30 Thread Mark Wilkinson
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:46:21 -0700, Alan Ruttenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of the things that I have has a concern over with LSIDs is what to do with versioned identifiers. Sometimes it is important to have the version - like when you are doing some sequence based analysis and y

Re: URI thoughts

2006-07-30 Thread Matt
Donald's solution feels a little circular. The interpretation of these relations still need a formal specification, which OWL would do nicely for, but then OWL already defines similar constructs. I think the "one true ontology" idea fails simply through open world semantics; I'm not sure

RE: URI thoughts

2006-07-30 Thread Donald Doherty
Eric, What you call "covering" below seems particularly important. In my view, there can never be one true ontology, especially in science (unless we're done and have reached complete knowledge...if that's possible). You present an interesting solution... Don Donald Doherty, Ph.D. Brainstage Re

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2006-07-30 Thread William Bug
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Re: A precedent suggesting a compromise for the SWHCLS IG Best Practices (ARK)

2006-07-30 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
On Jul 28, 2006, at 7:37 PM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: 3. The paper doesn't mention qualifiers, but the current version of the specification does. We should perhaps agree on some conventions on the form of qualifiers so that we can use them to represent versions, where appropriate. BTW, so