RE: Prototype URL to Life Science Identifier (LSID) gateway now available

2006-10-12 Thread Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)
Sean, Great work! If these http URIs are generally used, - Client software that is *not* aware of LSID-specific dereferencing mechanisms can use these URIs to find useful information; and - Client software that *is* aware of LSID-specitic dereferencing mechanisms may choose to optim

HCLSig TC minutes for Oct 12

2006-10-12 Thread Eric Neumann
The minutes from today's TC are at http://www.w3.org/2006/10/12-HCLS-minutes.html... cheers, Eric Eric Neumann, PhD co-chair, W3C Healthcare and Life Sciences, and Senior Director Product Strategy Teranode Corporation 411 1st Avenue South, Suite 700 Seattle, WA 98104 +1 (781)856-9132 www.t

Prototype URL to Life Science Identifier (LSID) gateway now available

2006-10-12 Thread Sean Martin
Hello all, A little while back the W3C's HCLS BioRDF group (in the form of Susie Stephens) asked if I would look into establishing a prototype of a gateway service that allows the mapping of  LSIDs to URLs. The initial suggestion came from Henry Thompson who asked that we take at look at how the A

RE: using OBO in owl format to describe data

2006-10-12 Thread Nigam Shah
> I am not familiar with the OBO, from what I just read from the > OBO spec, I think OBO does have term like "intersection_of", > "union_of", "disjoint_from". From I can see now, the > translation should be syntactic for most, but not all, > concepts. For those concepts that there is any OWL equiv

RE: using OBO in owl format to describe data

2006-10-12 Thread Xiaoshu Wang
--Joanne, > Having had many surprises in learning how the open world > works and how OWL works > I'm curious to know how this is handled. I have not yet taken on > the task to learn > OBO as I hope not have to. I would like to feel confident > that I can convert a file into OWL and use it,

Re: OWL vs. RDF : Face-to-face meeting minutes

2006-10-12 Thread William Bug
Excellent suggestion, Duncan.This is really a "must read" for anyone constructing OWL-based ontologies - or trying to decide whether they should proceed from RDF to OWL and which OWL "dialect" to commit to.  It provides an excellent, accessible overview to the underlying DLs with ample pointers to

Re: [SPAM] Re: using OBO in owl format to describe data

2006-10-12 Thread Leonid Ototsky
Joanne and all. Many of the questions in the mailing list show that we are at a "stariting point" of "more intellectual Web" . Suppose there are some foundations which must be taken into account as well. Look at the "To keep abreast of the 21st Century" paper - http://ototsky.mgn.ru/it/21abreast.h

Re: OWL vs. RDF : Face-to-face meeting minutes

2006-10-12 Thread Duncan Hull
Kerstin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would be great to have some short statements from you as guidance on this topic in discussion with colleagues here at AstraZeneca. This paper should help inform the discussion From SHIQ and RDF to OWL: the making of a Web Ontology Language Ian Horrocks, Pet

Re: using OBO in owl format to describe data

2006-10-12 Thread Joanne Luciano
Xiaoshu, You raise the issue of open vs closed world, which has been on my mind whenever any translation to OWL comes up. I have ahead of me some databases in OBO that I will be looking to convert to OWL. I intend to build constructs that enable reasoners to tell me new things about the