Re: Evidence

2007-06-12 Thread William Bug
Hi Karen, We're working on an expression of standard cognitive assessments and behavior tests in BIRNLex, as many of the functional imaging studies covered in the Function BIRN test bed make use of a whole battery of such tests - including the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence. Our

[BioRDF] Process for developing the URI Practices document

2007-06-12 Thread Jonathan Rees
Per our discussion at yesterday's BioRDF teleconference, I've written down my ideas on how to proceed on the task of producing a document giving recommendations for choice and use of URI's. http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG_BioRDF_Subgroup/Tasks/URI_Best_Practices/Work_Plan I also created a couple

RE: Evidence

2007-06-12 Thread Skinner, Karen (NIH/NIDA) [E]
This discussion on "evidence" makes me wonder if "inclusion" or "exclusion" criteria for a study are considered as "evidence" or are they something else? For example, if "smokers" are to be excluded from a study, a definition of a "smoker" must exist, and then an interpretation of whether the

Re: Evidence

2007-06-12 Thread samwald
Hi Waclaw, > Matthias, if you look carefully at BFO, you'll see that roles are > entities. This means that evidences, as roles, are entities. Of course. I just wanted to differentiate that an experiment is not an instance of any class called 'evidence' (in other words, an experiment 'is not

Re: Evidence

2007-06-12 Thread Waclaw Kusnierczyk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * In the view of BFO-friendly ontologies, there exists no thing that IS evidence. Instead, evidence is a ROLE that can be plaid by things in a certain context. Mathias, if you look carefully at BFO, you'll see that roles are entities. This means that evidences, as

Re: Evidence

2007-06-12 Thread Waclaw Kusnierczyk
Daniel Rubin wrote: At 07:15 AM 6/11/2007, Matt Williams wrote: I changed the subject line to make it more specific. I think that Evidence is a tricky, slippery subject. It seems to be both traces (i.e. records of something) and in many cases, inferences. Those inferences probably shouldn'

Re: Evidence

2007-06-12 Thread Waclaw Kusnierczyk
Daniel Rubin wrote: At 07:15 AM 6/11/2007, Matt Williams wrote: I changed the subject line to make it more specific. I think that Evidence is a tricky, slippery subject. It seems to be both traces (i.e. records of something) and in many cases, inferences. Those inferences probably shouldn'

Re: BioRDF Telcon

2007-06-12 Thread Jonathan Rees
On 6/11/07, Eric Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: +1 ! I've also added a reference to the Banff discussion on URI's. I plan to put this also on the agenda for the next HCLSIG TC (June 21). -Eric Thanks, but for the benefit of those of us who weren't at this dicussion in Banff, could you

Re: Evidence

2007-06-12 Thread samwald
My thoughts on the discussion of evidence so far: * Evidence is indeed a very fuzzy term, and it might be applied to several things. * There is a lot of theoretical and practical work behind 'evidence' (even a discipline called "evidence science"), and we should invest significant work into f

ICLP07: call for participation

2007-06-12 Thread ICLP07 publicity
(apologies for multiple copies) -- Dear Colleague, ICLP 2007 registration is now open. Please note that early registration ends on June 30th. More details on the conference and its associated workshops can be found on the web

Re: Evidence

2007-06-12 Thread Daniel Rubin
At 07:15 AM 6/11/2007, Matt Williams wrote: I changed the subject line to make it more specific. I think that Evidence is a tricky, slippery subject. It seems to be both traces (i.e. records of something) and in many cases, inferences. Those inferences probably shouldn't be called evidence,

Call for Papers: MedInfo 2007 Workshop: "What Semantics Do We Need for A Semantic Web for Medicine?" - deadline 9th July 2007

2007-06-12 Thread Patty Kostkova
* SORRY FOR CROSS-POSTING *** *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** MedInfo 2007 Workshop: MedSemWeb 2007 What Semantics Do We Need for A Semantic Web for Medicine? to be held in conjunction with MedInfo 2007 URL: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~patty/MedInfo2007/MedInfo%202007%20Workshop%20CFP ..html 19t