RE: making statements on the semantic web

2007-08-24 Thread Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)
> From: Greg Tyrelle > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 6:42 AM > [ . . . ] > Do you want to make statements about the HTML representation of the > database records in SGD ? I will assume this is not the case as these > records already have URL identifiers. Or do you want to make > statements about

[BIONT-DSE] Clinical Observations Interoperability Telcon August 28th, Tuesday 11:00am - 12:00pm US EDT

2007-08-24 Thread Kashyap, Vipul
Clinical Observations Interoperability Telcon http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/OntologyTaskForce/BIONTDSEDCM Date and Time: August 28th, Tuesday 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT Agenda: 1. Presentation and Discussion of Use Case: Rachel Richesson 2. Presentation

Final CFP: Special Issue on Journal of Biomedcial Informatics on Semantic BioMed Mashup

2007-08-24 Thread Kashyap, Vipul
Special Issue of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics on Semantic BioMed Mashup Guest Editors: Kei-Hoi Cheung, Huajun Chen, Yimin Wang, Susie Stephens, Joanne Luciano, Vipul Kashyap Submission Deadline: August 31, 2007 Biomedical researchers need to be able to access all relevant data

Re: BioRDF Telcon

2007-08-24 Thread Jonathan Rees
I won't be able to attend on Monday, but have written up my current status. See http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG_BioRDF_Subgroup/Meetings/ 2007-08-27_Conference_Call/UriNoteStatus Jonathan On Aug 24, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Susie M Stephens wrote: Hi Folks, Here's the reminder for Monday's Bio

Re: [Fwd: Re: identifier to use]

2007-08-24 Thread Ricardo Pereira
Hello all, The biodiversity informatics community, which I'm a member of, were faced with the same issues when we decided to adopt LSID. After much discussion, we extended the work from Sean Marting and others regarding LSID HTTP proxies and devised a set of recommendations to make

BioRDF Telcon

2007-08-24 Thread Susie M Stephens
Hi Folks, Here's the reminder for Monday's BioRDF telcon. Cheers, Susie --- == Conference Details == * Date of Call: Monday August 27, 2007 * Time of Call: 11:00am Eastern Time * Dial-In #: +1.617.761.6200 (Cambridge, MA) * Dial-In #: +33.4.89.06.34.99 (Nice, France) * Dial-In #: +44.11

Re: identifier to use

2007-08-24 Thread Eric Jain
Phillip Lord wrote: I want an identifier that I can do one thing with and, preferably, one thing only. Not 5. And that would be? (Drums rolling...)

Re: identifier to use

2007-08-24 Thread Eric Jain
Phillip Lord wrote: No it isn't. http:// based URIs carry the assumption that they are potentially resolvable by a defined protocol. URNs do not. Yes, HTTP URIs are *potentially* resolvable. So are URNs, except that the exact mechanism, if any, is less obvious...

Re: identifier to use

2007-08-24 Thread Eric Jain
Phillip Lord wrote: Actually, LSIDs are built on top of HTTP. The initial step is web service and http delivered. The second stage is multi-protocol which includes HTTP. There are other schemes up for discussion, too, but regarding LSID: If it's anyway built on top of HTTP, wouldn't it make

Re: identifier to use

2007-08-24 Thread Phillip Lord
> "MS" == Matthias Samwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> So you want to advertise what can be expected (or NOT expected) before MS> the web client starts the retrieval process? If we are to use http: based URIs for things which are never meant to be retrieved (like ontology concepts),

[Fwd: Re: identifier to use]

2007-08-24 Thread Xiaoshu Wang
--- Begin Message --- Phillip Lord wrote: I want an identifier that I can do one thing with and, preferably, one thing only. Not 5. I am not suggesting that we put semantics into the identifiers other than those semantics that we need for using the ID. So, your analogy is wrong. What is exa

Re: identifier to use

2007-08-24 Thread samwald
Phil wrote: > To me it makes no sense to layer multi different protocols over a > single identifier. Imagine I get an URI like > http://uniprot.org/P4543, it could be > 1) a meaningless concept identifier in an ontology > 2) a URL which resolves to a pretty web page, via a single step > process

Re: identifier to use

2007-08-24 Thread Phillip Lord
> "XW" == Xiaoshu Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: XW> Phillip Lord wrote: >> To me it makes no sense to layer multi different protocols over a single >> identifier. Imagine I get an URI like http://uniprot.org/P4543, it could >> be >> >> 1) a meaningless concept identifier in an

Re: identifier to use

2007-08-24 Thread Xiaoshu Wang
Phillip Lord wrote: To me it makes no sense to layer multi different protocols over a single identifier. Imagine I get an URI like http://uniprot.org/P4543, it could be 1) a meaningless concept identifier in an ontology 2) a URL which resolves to a pretty web page, via a single step process 3)

Re: identifier to use

2007-08-24 Thread Phillip Lord
> "DS" == "Booth, David (HP Software <- Boston)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > writes: >> From: Phillip Lord [ . . . ] I don't understand the desire to implement >> everything using HTTP. Why call lots of things, which are actually >> several protocols by a name which suggests that they a

Re: identifier to use

2007-08-24 Thread Phillip Lord
> "EJ" == Eric Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EJ> Phillip Lord wrote: >> I don't understand the desire to implement everything using HTTP. EJ> Likewise, I don't understand the desire to implement everything using EJ> anything but HTTP :-) If there is an existing system that is EJ