OWLED 2007 is nigh

2007-05-28 Thread Bijan Parsia
See the eponymous post: http://clarkparsia.com/weblog/2007/05/28/owled-2007-is-nigh/ I know several of you will be attending...I'm looking forward to meeting y'all. As the blog post above says, I'm interested in any suggestions from *anyone* (attendee or not) for features or topics

Re: [hcls] Harmonization of labels, descriptions and definitions

2007-05-28 Thread Bijan Parsia
On May 29, 2007, at 4:58 AM, William Bug wrote: This is exactly the point I've been making for over a year now regarding use of SKOS in biomedical ontology development, and it is why we use SKOS:prefLabel for all classes in BIRNLex (as well as having the redundant rdfs:label for interopera

Re: [hcls] Harmonization of labels, descriptions and definitions

2007-05-28 Thread William Bug
This is exactly the point I've been making for over a year now regarding use of SKOS in biomedical ontology development, and it is why we use SKOS:prefLabel for all classes in BIRNLex (as well as having the redundant rdfs:label for interoperability purposes). The "altLabel" provides a mean

Re: [Obi-devel] -naming conventions- (fwd)

2007-05-28 Thread Trish Whetzel
This effort may be of interest. Trish -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 14:51:36 +0100 From: Daniel Schober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: frank gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: OBI Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Trish Whetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Obi-deve

Re: [hcls] Encyclopedia of Life & possible interaction with the HCLSIG

2007-05-28 Thread John Wilbanks
Matthias, Science Commons / Creative Commons is involved from a legal perspective, and the SW use cases are driving much of the legal discussion. I can connect you through if you're interested. jtw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are any participants of the HCLS (or at least someone who is readi

[hcls] Encyclopedia of Life & possible interaction with the HCLSIG

2007-05-28 Thread samwald
Are any participants of the HCLS (or at least someone who is reading this mailing list) in connection with the Encyclopedia of Life project [1, 2]? The announcement of this ambitious project in the last month had international press coverage -- and it seems that Semantic Web technologies will p

RE: [hcls] Harmonization of labels, descriptions and definitions

2007-05-28 Thread Kashyap, Vipul
Matthias, This is a very important problem and an early harmonization effort could save a lot of pain later on (A stitch in time saves nine). An interesting point to be noted here is that the UMLS and NCI metathesauri seek to do a similar thing for medical vocabularies. Wondering if there's a