Fwd: Evidence for backing statements

2007-05-19 Thread William Bug
Sorry to be resending. For some reason, this didn't get to the list the first time around. Cheers, Bill Begin forwarded message: From: William Bug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 19, 2007 7:11:32 AM EDT To: Eric Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Chris Mungall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dan Brickley"

Re: Evidence for backing statements

2007-05-19 Thread Adrian Walker
Eric -- You wrote...I see several potential categories of uncertainty, some around the current reification discussions; here's a starter list that is by no means exhaustive: 4. ??? Here's my 2 cents worth for item 4. I'd say that an application or a reasoner that uses RDF or other

SKOS use cases

2007-05-19 Thread Daniel Rubin
Request for Comments: SKOS Use Cases and Requirements: Working Draft   2007-05-16: The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has   published the First Public Working Draft of SKOS Use Cases and   Requirements [1]. Knowledge organization systems, such as taxonomies,   thesauri or subject heading

Re: Evidence for backing statements

2007-05-19 Thread William Bug
On May 18, 2007, at 7:40 PM, Eric Neumann wrote: am I correct to assume that within HCLS, all RDF statements we are considering are not facts, but assertions, that may in the future be proven false, but never proven true? I am very excited to hear this will be a W3C focused activity. Sta

Re: Advancing translational research with the Semantic Web

2007-05-19 Thread Alan Rector
Chris, Bijan, Pat, All Coming into this late, it seems to me that there are a series of use- cases / requirements / wishes that people are trying to accommodate made worse by real difficulties of the "use vs mention" variety. I think there is a need of a high level document setting out the