ISWC'08 tutorial on Reasoning for Ontology Engineering and Usage

2008-09-17 Thread Marijke Keet
Dear All, For those of you who will or might attend ISWC in Karlsruhe, you may be interested in the 1-day tutorial on reasoning for Ontology Engineering and Usage, on 27 Oct 2008. In brief: Engineering and using large OWL ontologies is a complex task for which impressive tool support has re

Re: Minutes HCLSIG call June 26

2008-07-01 Thread Marijke Keet
M. Scott Marshall ha scritto: You will find the minutes for yesterday's call here: http://www.w3.org/2008/06/26-hcls-minutes.html Vipul's comment ("when suggesting a particular technology for a project, one should explain the value of that particular tech to the user") is a valid point... As

Survey for and Testing of Ontology-Based Data Access

2008-05-07 Thread Marijke Keet
://www.inf.unibz.it/phpsurveyor/index.php?sid=10 [3] http://keet.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/tools-to-access-data-through-an-ontology/ [4] http://www.inf.unibz.it/~rodriguez/OBDA/beta06/index.html Best regards, Marijke Keet C. Maria Keet KRDB Research Centre Faculty of Computer Science Free

[Fwd: FW: European Master in Computational Logic - scholarships for non-European and European students]

2007-12-21 Thread Marijke Keet
Hi, for those of you who have students who focus on computer science & Semantic Web technologies, the EMCL Master's programme may be of interest for getting a solid foundation of SW tech and broader underlying theory. The scholarships are generous for non-EU people in particular. cheers, m

Re: HCLS Demo at ISMB/ECCB

2007-08-08 Thread Marijke Keet
Dear All, Unfortunately, I couldn't attend (being at the topically related AAAI Semantic e-Science workshop), but it's good to read the summary and that interest in bio & SW seems to be expanding (be it linear or exponentially) -- and well ahead compared to the enterprise domain. As for t

Re: Ambiguous names. was: Re: URL +1, LSID -1

2007-07-16 Thread Marijke Keet
Eric Neumann ha scritto: Alan, the life science community has for years applied an implicit transitivity to records of things, so that when many say: "http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P12345 is expressed only in species homo sapien" they usually imply that "the protein referenced by data

Re: Ambiguous names. was: Re: URL +1, LSID -1

2007-07-16 Thread Marijke Keet
Eric Jain ha scritto: Marijke Keet wrote: just because proteins are smaller than persons does not make them into mere abstractions--thingies of your imagination that only materialise by means of their representations in some information system. proteins were around for quite a while before

Re: Ambiguous names. was: Re: URL +1, LSID -1

2007-07-16 Thread Marijke Keet
Eric Jain ha scritto: Alan Ruttenberg wrote: There are proteins, and there are records about proteins. Records come in different formats. If I make a statement using this url, is is about the record? or the protein? How should the agent come to know? The concept of "protein" is abstract eno

Re: Advancing translational research with the Semantic Web

2007-05-22 Thread Marijke Keet
The history of computing is the history of "design patterns" at one level that eventually get built into "higher level languages" at the next level of abstraction up. I think I have a less optimistic view of progress in computer science. For example, many of the paradigmatic GoF design

Re: Advancing translational research with the Semantic Web

2007-05-18 Thread Marijke Keet
Dear All, Regarding “reification design patterns” and the reification & OWL (not the thorny logic-based representation of beliefs et al), permit me to mention that support for n-ary relations ---where n may also be >2--- in description logics is already possible with DLR [1] and implemented w