Re: OWL vs RDF

2006-10-26 Thread William Bug
Hi All,At this week's BIRN All-Hands Meeting, the BIRN Ontology Task Force has been working on ontological representation of neuroanatomy (decomposing the differing senses often wrapped together in a standard neuroanatomical terminological resources), so that in the end we'll be able to recompose a

Re: OWL vs RDF

2006-10-26 Thread Robert Stevens
There's another answer of using the reasoner by building your ontology to take advantage of its capabilities. the conceptual lego approach relies on the reasoner. Anecdotally, I've managed to miss out subsumption relationships by hand in ontologies as small as a dozen classes. Also, when bui

modelling controlled vocabularies [was: Re: CANCELLED Oct 26 Teleconference Agenda]

2006-10-26 Thread Ralph R. Swick
At 11:26 AM 10/26/2006 -0400, Chimezie Ogbuji wrote: >I'm not 100% certain the action item is related to this, but during the F2F I >had asked the Interest Group for opinions on the various ways of modelling >'controlled values' for a property: There is some material relevant to this question i

Re: CANCELLED Oct 26 Teleconference Agenda

2006-10-26 Thread Chimezie Ogbuji
I'm not 100% certain the action item is related to this, but during the F2F I had asked the Interest Group for opinions on the various ways of modelling 'controlled values' for a property: - as a closed set of literals - as an enumerated class (nominals / owl:oneOf) - as a class constructe

Re: CANCELLED Oct 26 Teleconference Agenda - modelling 'optional' attributes and default value

2006-10-26 Thread helen . chen
 Hi, Eric Then we have done this action item :) But I have another issues in the similar domain: when 'lifting" HL7 CDA (clinical document architecture) XSD to OWL ontology and mapping to RIM Ontology.  I don't know how to handle the "optional" attributes and their default values, e.g. I am t

Re: CANCELLED Oct 26 Teleconference Agenda

2006-10-26 Thread Eric Neumann
Alan, Based on the notes (http://www.w3.org/2006/10/03-hcls-minutes.html), there was a discussion on HL7 qualifiers, and that perhaps Helen should consider using Enumerated classes instead of controlled vocab. This was new to her, and you had stated you would explain it to her-- hence the acti

Re: OWL vs RDF

2006-10-26 Thread Phillip Lord
> "Alan" == Alan Ruttenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alan> Well it would be educational to get your view on what you can Alan> you do with owl without a reasoner that's not easier to do Alan> without owl? You can do lots of things with OWL without a reasoner. The Gene Ontology is r