Re: Facebook's new Graph Search: An endorsement of the RDF approach to healthcare data?

2013-01-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 1/17/13 1:45 PM, Michael Miller wrote: the developer who wrote the app looked at RDF but settled on neo4j because it seemed to scale better. RDF is a framework comprised of: 1. Data Model 2. Syntax 3. Notations. How do you compare that with an DBMS product? The comparison isn't like for li

RE: Facebook's new Graph Search: An endorsement of the RDF approach to healthcare data?

2013-01-17 Thread Michael Miller
hi simon, my lab group here at ISB has a web application called pubcrawl [1] which looks through medline abstracts driven by a protein-protein interaction database and results from analysis of TCGA data that we use in conjunction with our regulome explorer [2]. the developer who wrote the app loo

Re: Facebook's new Graph Search: An endorsement of the RDF approach to healthcare data?

2013-01-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 1/17/13 1:06 PM, Lin MD, Simon wrote: Kingsley, I tried the link you send. With 55 Billion+ live triples, the response time is very much impressive. However, I must say that I am lost on viewing the results -- the presentation is not designed to anybody outside of the RDF community! One

RE: Facebook's new Graph Search: An endorsement of the RDF approach to healthcare data?

2013-01-17 Thread Lin MD, Simon
Kingsley, I tried the link you send. With 55 Billion+ live triples, the response time is very much impressive. However, I must say that I am lost on viewing the results -- the presentation is not designed to anybody outside of the RDF community! By the way, how you compare your approach to n

Job: Research-intensive software development in Semantic Querying and Data Federation for Bioinformatics

2013-01-17 Thread Alexandre Riazanov
Apologies for cross-posting. IPSNP Computing Inc is looking for a Software Engineer to work on the development of a Biomedical Data Federation/Semantic Querying technology based on Semantic Web services. The following qualifications are mandatory: - Good knowledge of Java. - MSc in Comput

Re: HCLSIG F2F @ CSHALS

2013-01-17 Thread Matthias Samwald
I created a wiki page for planning the face-to-face meeting: http://www.w3.org/wiki/HCLSIG/Cambridge_F2F_2013 Please add your name if you are interested in attending (I already added the names of those who replied via e-mail). I guess we don't know yet know how many interested participants we wil

Re: Facebook's new Graph Search: An endorsement of the RDF approach to healthcare data?

2013-01-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 1/17/13 9:56 AM, Bhat, Talapady N. wrote: Hi, All these are good news. But one of the important stuff, as far as I know still to be addressed is, are all the graphs produced by RDF graph generator are meaningful for a use-case. In other words, do we have methods to ensure that the elements

RE: Facebook's new Graph Search: An endorsement of the RDF approach to healthcare data?

2013-01-17 Thread Bhat, Talapady N.
Hi, All these are good news. But one of the important stuff, as far as I know still to be addressed is, are all the graphs produced by RDF graph generator are meaningful for a use-case. In other words, do we have methods to ensure that the elements (subject, object, predicates) of an RDF trillio

Re: Facebook's new Graph Search: An endorsement of the RDF approach to healthcare data?

2013-01-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 1/16/13 8:12 PM, Rafael Richards wrote: Yesterday Facebook announced a new feature called Graph Search. This Graph includes 1 billion people, 240 billion photos, and over 1 trillion connections. Graph search is privacy aware: every piece of content has its own specified audience. Most c