RE: making statements on the semantic web

2007-08-20 Thread Michel_Dumontier
Thanks Marc-Alexandre, Bio2RDF is certainly making a valuable contribution by RDFizing documents and making them available via a publicly accessible server. How do we set it up locally - I couldn't figure it out from navigating the website? Bio2RDF assigns a URI in its own namespace for self-re

Re: Does follow-your-nose apply in the enterprise? was: RDF for molecules, using InChI

2007-08-20 Thread Bijan Parsia
On Aug 20, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) wrote: Bijan, Certainly we want these recommendations to have uptake, every approach has costs, and every recommendation has its own scope of applicability. But different people weigh the costs and benefits differently. Of c

Re: making statements on the semantic web

2007-08-20 Thread Marc-Alexandre Nolin
Hi, Sorry, I miss a conversation implicating Bio2RDF on the mailing list, but I was in vacation in the last 2 weeks. You can see Bio2RDF as a proxy for "LINKED" RDF documents. That is, some data provider give access to a RDF data representation of their data, like Uniprot, and we are very thankf

RE: Does follow-your-nose apply in the enterprise? was: RDF for molecules, using InChI

2007-08-20 Thread Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)
> From: Michel_Dumontier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > From: David Booth > > [ . . . ] > > Can you explain specific cases in which you see usefully > > dereferenceable URIs as NOT being so convenient for the discoverer? > > Sure, when the URI refers to a resource for which information about i

RE: Does follow-your-nose apply in the enterprise? was: RDF for molecules, using InChI

2007-08-20 Thread Michel_Dumontier
> > > and making URIs > > > dereferenceable to useful metadata is certainly one > > > convenient way to help do so. > > > > Really? The point of these examples is that there are a variety of > > cases which for a variety of reasons it's not so convenient > > (actually, either for the minter or th

RE: Does follow-your-nose apply in the enterprise? was: RDF for molecules, using InChI

2007-08-20 Thread Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)
Bijan, Certainly we want these recommendations to have uptake, every approach has costs, and every recommendation has its own scope of applicability. But different people weigh the costs and benefits differently. Yes, some may view the cost of minting dereferenceable URIs as too high in some sit