UniProt: 1 Billion Triples

2007-10-23 Thread Eric Jain
The latest release of the UniProt protein database contains just over a billion triples*! PRESS RELEASE :-) The data is all available via the (Semantic or otherwise) Web: http://beta.uniprot.org/ ...or can be bulk-downloaded from: ftp://ftp.uniprot.org/ * Counting some reification sta

Re: what would change for me? -> revised meta-requirements

2007-10-23 Thread Jonathan Rees
OK, thanks to your stimulus I've reworked the recommendations to be more clear about what I mean by a URI Note recommendations document. I've tried to provide more motivation and examples of answers to each question. I always omit something important when I do things like this, so please

[biordf] Progress with PDSP Ki database

2007-10-23 Thread samwald
I have made some progress with the conversion of the PDSP Ki database (containing quantitative information about ligand-receptor interactions with a focus on neuroscience). Ontology URL: http://purl.org/ycmi/ki/core.owl Associated Wiki page: http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG_BioRDF_Subgroup/Data/

Re: what would change for me?

2007-10-23 Thread Marc-Alexandre Nolin
Hi, I'm one of Bio2RDF maintainer. While we still strongly believe in HTTP URI with a REST nomenclature and a GET retrieval, we also believe that some kind of standardization about how URIs should be created would be beneficial for the health care and life science domain. These recommendations ar

Re: what would change for me?

2007-10-23 Thread Jonathan Rees
First let me thank you for taking a serious look at the requirements. I appreciate it. On Oct 21, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Peter Ansell wrote: Hi all, I have been using the Bio2Rdf markup system and I personally do not see what all the fuss is about but there must be something so here are my opin

Re: what would change for me?

2007-10-23 Thread Eric Jain
Peter Ansell wrote: Not sure what the difficulties are here. Agreeing on what the best practices are -- if any? :-) Everyone has their "personally, I would stick with x"s. I think the idea was to document the arguments (any maybe even reach some conclusions), in order to avoid repetitive di