Re: Size estimates of current LS space (and Introductions)

2006-08-13 Thread Jon Frost \(iCounty Software\)
Good thoughts. Actually, Wikipedia will be introducing stable versions in the not-so-distant future which could be referenced in a Semantic web app because the stable versions will not change. Jon Frost Learn SVG - http://www.learnsvg.com - Original Message - From: "Booth, David (

Re: [BioRDF] global uniqueness requirement of LSIDs and RDF

2006-08-13 Thread Wafik Farag
Hi Michael and All, This is very interesting, especially since similar discussions took place in the late 80's about relational versus object oriented. Same challenge different group. Thanks Michael for triggering the relational world in my mind!! How to represent uniqueness of things that

Re: Size estimates of current LS space (and Introductions)

2006-08-13 Thread Matthew Cockerill
On 11 Aug 2006, at 21:46, Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) wrote: [snip] (For example, one probably would not use a wikipedia URL as a concept identifier in a Semantic Web application, because the definition of a term can change as fast as a user can type in a browser.) [snip] Actuall

Announcement: Second F2F W3C-HCLS Meeting in Amsterdam

2006-08-13 Thread Eric Neumann
The Second F2F Meeting for Healthcare and Life Sciences will take place Oct 3-4, 2006 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. All HCLS Interest Group Participants are invited to attend (i.e., W3C members + Invited Experts signed up for HCLS, see http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/38539/join). F2F ObjectivesT