Re: Doodle poll: "Runoff Poll: Weekly Teleconference of RDF Sub-Group of HL7 ITS"

2014-10-30 Thread Jack Park
+1 On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Deborah L McGuinness wrote: > I vote for tues at 11 eastern time > Deborah > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 28, 2014, at 8:08 PM, David Booth wrote: > > > > Those who wish to participate in the "RDF for Semantic Interoperability" > sub-group of the HL7 IT

Re: [ontolog-forum] NCBO Webinar: Accelerating Health Advances through Open Challenges - May 1 at 10am PDT

2013-04-29 Thread Jack Park
Sage Bionetworks just completed its fourth Commons Congress. See http://sagecongress.org/WP/ for more. Jack On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Trish Whetzel wrote: > The next NCBO Webinar will be presented by Mike Kellen from Sage > Bionetworks on "Accelerating Health Advances through Open Chal

Re: OpenDDx project

2012-09-12 Thread Jack Park
If I may, I wish to offer a view to a possible expansion of the scope of this important project. In a paper "Just for me: topic maps and ontologies" http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2096517 (and available as a pdf online at citeseer) Adam Cheyer and I tell about an approach to expanding the DARP

Re: My task from last week: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-20 Thread Jack Park
I would argue that "shooting oneself in the foot" may not be as much an issue as the one Wikipedia got into when it assigned personal names to topics, only to find there were others with the same name equally worthy of a topic. Jack On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: > If I might

Re: additional reminder: HCLS Scientific Discourse concall, Autumn 2010 planning session

2010-09-13 Thread Jack Park
Brief comment following the call. I mentioned Oren Etzioni at U.Washington and the DARPA BAA on "machine reading". I believe those two entities signal a change at some level in thinking about text harvesting. As part of my thesis proposal [1], I describe what I call an "anticipatory story reader"

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Jack Park
Can we perform a mashup on the two positions? Someone who created a SPARQL end point has, by some means, created an interpretation (graph) to query based on some document. Perhaps other SPARQL end points would have different interpretations? Just a tenth EURO... Jack On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:3

Re: DBpedia to OBO mapping: did someone already work on it?

2009-03-26 Thread Jack Park
Looking at BrainInfo [1], which, as I recall, serves as a nomenclature source for UMLS, the two names, telencephalon, and cerebrum, are treated separately; neither mentions the other as a synonym (unless I missed something). Jack [1] http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/Default.aspx On Thu, Mar 2

[Fwd: [swikig] invitation to semantic wiki mini-series -- planning telco TODAY 7.30 pm CEST]

2008-09-18 Thread Jack Park
Just in case this wasn't posted here before, any interest in semantic wiki evolution might be interested in this conference call today. Cheers, Jack Original Message Subject: [swikig] invitation to semantic wiki mini-series -- planning telco TODAY 7.30 pm CEST Date: Thu, 1

Re: Remembering Bill Bug in the KB note

2008-05-30 Thread Jack Park
+1 Jack On May 29, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: I wonder if we could include a line remembering Bill Bug in the KB note. Something simple along the lines of "In memory of our friend and colleague William Bug, Ontological Engineer" -Alan

Re: Cross Language with topic maps [was Re: 答复: KB note]

2008-05-28 Thread Jack Park
Xiaoshu Wang wrote: Kei Cheung wrote: Hi Eric et al, I'm glad that umls, topic map, ... were mentioned. We have to do more than literal translation or linguistics. It's semantics! Traditional Chinese medicine embodies rich dialectical thought, such as that of the holistic connections a

Re: Cross Language with topic maps [was Re: 答复: KB note]

2008-05-28 Thread Jack Park
ly and technologically interesting. Thanks, -Kei eric neumann wrote: Why not simply use to following trick on top of universal symbols? Eric 2008/5/28 Jack Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: In cross-language data integration, it may be a simple matter of u

Cross Language with topic maps [was Re: 答复: KB note]

2008-05-28 Thread Jack Park
In cross-language data integration, it may be a simple matter of using a multitude of language-scoped labels in an ontology. Another approach that has been mentioned on this list many moons back by the late Bill Bugg was that of applying topic maps to the federation of heterogeneous resources, inc

Followup thoughts [Re: BioRDF [Telcon]]

2006-07-31 Thread Jack Park
Let me toss out a few ideas (possibly longish - sorry). These thoughts might appear somewhat like the famous Larson cartoon where Joe is speaking to his dog Bowser: What Joe said: "Bowser, I'm going to toss a bone, then you go fetch the bone" What Bowser heard: "Bowserbone!bone" Most

Re: URIs

2006-06-21 Thread Jack Park
ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Mereotopology1.pdf [2] http://xml.coverpages.org/iff.html [3] http://users.actcom.co.il/typographics/zippie/ [4] http://rosen-enterprises.com/RobertRosen/biotheorylaunch.html William Bug wrote: Oops - I forgot to add... Again - in this area, I think the TMR

Re: URI thoughts

2006-06-20 Thread Jack Park
I think that these valuable ideas can be supplemented by an additional set of properties (here, I am making a perhaps false assumption that Eric's "strawperson" proposal doesn't already anticipate subject identity properties). Appealing to Peircian notions for subject identity is, I believe,

Re: NeuroNames [was: slides for the UMLS presentation]

2006-06-07 Thread Jack Park
sociation with the work started in the FMA a foundational ontology for biomedicine (the Ontology of Biological Reality) that is becoming increasingly important to all of the ontologies being monitored by NCBO and incorporated into the OBO site and the emerging OBO Foundary (http://obofoundry.org/).