Re: 'Gene WIki' announced

2008-07-10 Thread Kei Cheung
What about DBpedia (http://dbpedia.org)? -Kei Dan Brickley wrote: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/80128,wikipedia-hosts-human-gene-repository.aspx [[ U.S. scientists are developing a “Gene Wiki” with the aim of fostering a flexible, organic archive of human genetic information. The proje

Re: 'Gene WIki' announced

2008-07-10 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Thursday 10 July 2008, "Matthias Samwald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A slight shift in topic: I wonder how secure such specialised types > of wiki content are from vandalisaton or errors introduced by > improper use. Generally, wikis can counter such threats through the > power of the 'thousa

Re: 'Gene WIki' announced

2008-07-10 Thread Matthias Samwald
A slight shift in topic: I wonder how secure such specialised types of wiki content are from vandalisaton or errors introduced by improper use. Generally, wikis can counter such threats through the power of the 'thousand eyes' of the readers, who can quickly jump in and correct obvious errors.

Re: 'Gene WIki' announced

2008-07-10 Thread Roderic Page
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITK_%28gene%29. It's actually mostly highly structured text, with numerous stable publication identifiers (DOIs and PubMed ids). OK, so it's not marked up in RDF/XML, etc., but in order to exploit the long tail you actually have to have a tail i

Re: 'Gene WIki' announced

2008-07-10 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Thursday 10 July 2008, Roderic Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, they do mention http://www.wikiprofessional.org/portal/ as > a   note added in proof, and I think the main point of their paper > was the ability to make use of the large, already existing community > that edits Wikipedi

Re: 'Gene WIki' announced

2008-07-10 Thread Roderic Page
Actually, they do mention http://www.wikiprofessional.org/portal/ as a note added in proof, and I think the main point of their paper was the ability to make use of the large, already existing community that edits Wikipedia, rather than, say, create a new domain-specific Wiki with a much

Re: 'Gene WIki' announced

2008-07-10 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Thursday 10 July 2008, Matthias Samwald wrote: > It is quite amazing that Huss et al. failed to mention these existing > resources in their paper. I agree. I maintain an extensive (ridiculous) list of somewhere near 13,000 bookmarks for my own, personal use, however I do release the informat

Re: 'Gene WIki' announced

2008-07-10 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Thursday 10 July 2008, Dan Brickley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >  From a quick skim I don't see mention of W3C, RDF, Semantic Web etc > --- I was wondering if anyone here was involved and had contacts, > since there's doubtless some overlap in interests and approach. In > particular I was think

Re: 'Gene WIki' announced

2008-07-10 Thread Matthias Samwald
There are existing Wikis with RDF/OWL integration for the exact use case described in that paper. For example: WikiProteins http://genomebiology.com/2008/9/5/R89 http://www.wikiprofessional.org/portal/ BOWiki http://bowiki.net/wiki/index.php/Main_page It is quite amazing that Huss et al. fai

'Gene WIki' announced

2008-07-10 Thread Dan Brickley
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/80128,wikipedia-hosts-human-gene-repository.aspx [[ U.S. scientists are developing a “Gene Wiki” with the aim of fostering a flexible, organic archive of human genetic information. The project exists within Wikipedia, and is expected to speed up the process of de

Re: Join message

2008-07-10 Thread Erick Antezana
Hi Bryan, please see below, Bryan Bishop wrote: Hey all, I am new to the list, but I really should have known about this group years ago. I am running a semantic web project oriented that is best summarized as apt-get for physical automation. Today, while writing some perl to steal the hum