Re: RDF information content and FHIR RDF requirement #14

2015-03-24 Thread Peter Ansell
Hi Tony, There has been gradual work on this area for a while. OWLAPI-4 has support for JSONLD, via the Rio APIs at this point [1]. Once that OWLAPI version flows through to Protege (in Protege-5 hopefully) [2], it should also support JSONLD. Cheers, Peter [1] https://github.com/owlcs/owlapi/b

Re: biontology.org Linked Data URIs?

2013-05-28 Thread Peter Ansell
Hi Kingsley, I think you may need an API key to work with them? [1] Cheers, Peter [1] http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO_REST_services On 29 May 2013 05:55, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > All, > > Who are the folks responsible for URIs such as: > > 1. >

Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-04-03 Thread Peter Ansell
On 4 April 2013 11:58, David Booth wrote: > On 04/02/2013 05:02 PM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > >> On Tuesday, April 2, 2013, David Booth wrote: >> On 03/27/2013 10:56 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: >> On Mar 27, 2013, at 7:32 PM, Jim McCusker wrote: >> >> If only owl:sameAs were used

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-25 Thread Peter Ansell
On 26 March 2013 06:02, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Hello David, > > We agree that there are different interpretations. But you haven't > shown that the boundaries between interpretations are graphs > boundaries (others, including me, think that each interpretation is > global). It doesn't

Re: Observations about facts in genomics

2013-03-21 Thread Peter Ansell
On 22 March 2013 14:38, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Peter Ansell > wrote: >> On 22 March 2013 12:05, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: >> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Jeremy J Carroll >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> To me

Re: Observations about facts in genomics

2013-03-21 Thread Peter Ansell
On 22 March 2013 15:15, Pat Hayes wrote: > On Mar 21, 2013, at 11:38 PM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Peter Ansell wrote: >> On 22 March 2013 12:05, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: >> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Jeremy J Carroll wrote: &

Re: Observations about facts in genomics

2013-03-21 Thread Peter Ansell
On 22 March 2013 12:05, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Jeremy J Carroll wrote: >> >> To me, that seems to lead us back to the earlier discussion (rathole?) >> about owl:sameAs >> I tend to a view that there are diminishing returns in terms of levels of >> indirection he

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-17 Thread Peter Ansell
r content > being misused and misunderstood by RDF users who are unaware of your > extra-RDF conventions for keeping contexts separate. > > Pat Hayes > > On Mar 17, 2013, at 10:45 PM, Peter Ansell wrote: > >> On 18 March 2013 12:50, Pat Hayes wrote: >>> >>

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-17 Thread Peter Ansell
On 18 March 2013 12:50, Pat Hayes wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2013, at 6:22 PM, Peter Ansell wrote: > >> On 18 March 2013 09:14, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: >>> Can someone *please* tell me what a context is?? >>> >>> My null hypothesis is that when someone says

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-17 Thread Peter Ansell
On 18 March 2013 09:14, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > Can someone *please* tell me what a context is?? > > My null hypothesis is that when someone says "context" they either don't > know what they are talking about, or are too lazy to say. Both these cases > are deadly for clear communication on the we

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-17 Thread Peter Ansell
On 18 March 2013 08:54, Jim McCusker wrote: > If you want to use a common context, use the same URI, but if you don't, > then don't. I have a paper in submission to ICBO about aggregating facts > from specializations, I won't go into details but I can send it along if > anyone's interested. > Whe

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-17 Thread Peter Ansell
On 17 March 2013 14:34, Jim McCusker wrote: > Hmm. In the end, all three of them are talking about the same apple. Either > a) the apple changed (they do that), or b) someone got it wrong (Is a > McIntosh a red apple or green apple? It's kind of both). The devil is always in the detail of course.

Re: A smaller simpler one-off csv to RDF just for experimenting on local machine OsX

2013-01-21 Thread Peter Ansell
Hi Peter, Michel Dumontier's php-lib library is what Bio2RDF has been using for converting TSV, CSV files (and other file formats) to RDF [1]. It contains some aspects that are Bio2RDF specific, namely its support for prefixed URIs, but any Pull Requests on GitHub would be appreciated to generalis

Re: HL7 RIM Designtime OWL Runtime RDF

2013-01-16 Thread Peter Ansell
On 17 January 2013 08:27, Jim McCusker wrote: > http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2003/HPL-2003-235R1.html That algorithm doesn't seem very clean, as it relies on all of the entities not changing the blank node identifiers for the simple version. The complex version relies on all parties modifyin

Re: HL7 RIM Designtime OWL Runtime RDF

2013-01-16 Thread Peter Ansell
On 17 January 2013 08:27, Jim McCusker wrote: > http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2003/HPL-2003-235R1.html That algorithm doesn't seem very clean, as it relies on all of the entities not changing the blank node identifiers for the simple version. The complex version relies on all parties modifyin

Re: HL7 RIM Designtime OWL Runtime RDF

2013-01-16 Thread Peter Ansell
On 17 January 2013 06:00, Jim McCusker wrote: > If you would like to validate that an RDF graph hasn't changed, you can > assert it's graph digest. Any new assertions would change the digest hash, > invalidating the asserted graph. The digest can then be signed by the > creator. That would close t

Re: Fwd: [Ops-ttf] Fwd: DrugBank not available?

2012-12-13 Thread Peter Ansell
On 14 December 2012 05:45, Richard Boyce wrote: > HI Umutcan, > > FYI: If the DailyMed dataset (United States drug product labels) is of > interest, a greatly updated version is available. Please read > for more information. I notice that you have

Re: Fwd: [Ops-ttf] Fwd: DrugBank not available?

2012-12-11 Thread Peter Ansell
Hi Umutcan, Bio2RDF is now providing versions of some of the datasets in the LODD set. In the case of DrugBank, you can find the downloadable dataset at [1], and the script we used is at [2]. The SPARQL endpoint will be at [3], but I have a feeling that it has not yet been updated. Michel Dumonti

Re: HPO and Gene Ontology Licenses

2012-08-08 Thread Peter Ansell
On 9 August 2012 00:00, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > We have discussed that the OBO Foundry policy is to use CC0 or CC-BY > and it has been put to the GO that we would like to migrate to that > license. I don't know the status of that discussion. Was there a discussion of the merits of CC-BY-SA as a

Re: HPO and Gene Ontology Licenses

2012-08-07 Thread Peter Ansell
s, by replacing fragment/hash identifiers with http://bio2rdf.org/ns:identifier equivalents, for example. Thanks, Peter Ansell On 8 August 2012 15:20, Robinson, Peter wrote: > Hi Peter, > > given that the HPO is being used by medical groups for real patient data, we > think

HPO and Gene Ontology Licenses

2012-08-07 Thread Peter Ansell
On 8 August 2012 02:46, Chris Mungall wrote: > Hi Michael > > I can't seem to connect to the triplestore. > > Have you considered adding associations between OMIM and phenotype ontology > classes? These can be downloaded from > http://www.human-phenotype-ontology.org/ as tab delimited files that c

Re: data quality

2011-10-15 Thread Peter Ansell
The SPIN syntax is quite abstract at first glance, but the ability to extend SPARQL is very interesting. There are other open source tools such as R2R [1] and the Bio2RDF library which I maintain, QueryAll [2], that may be a little easier to model data quality normalisation rules using, IMO, especi

Re: updating SIDER LODD

2011-08-03 Thread Peter Ansell
Hi Paul, Given the difference in the bare numbers of drugs in each dataset, it is likely that the owl:sameAs relations are not all bidirectional. That may affect the semantics of both queries, as for one you are starting off in Sider and using its available owl:sameAs relations to get to DrugBank,

Database versioning and maintenance

2011-08-03 Thread Peter Ansell
points) and Service Descriptions for their endpoints, as the basic mechanism is already there. However, the maintenance schedules and updates will always rely on long term static data hosting funding being available. Cheers, Peter Ansell

Re: GXA triples

2011-07-10 Thread Peter Ansell
On 11 July 2011 04:55, Helena Deus wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to find where the description of the genes in the GXA sparql > endpoint can be found (in RDF to that it can be pulled into the query): > SPARQLing GXA, I get a list of genes from an experiment; each gene looks > something like this: > "

Re: Version 1.0 of Bio2RDF and Chembl webapps released

2011-07-01 Thread Peter Ansell
On 30 June 2011 21:07, Peter Ansell wrote: > On 30 June 2011 18:43, Matthias Samwald > wrote: >> Do you have an example of how this could be done with SPARQL 1.1? > > According to the SPARQL 1.1 specifications, the following should > hypothetically work, but it doesn

Re: Version 1.0 of Bio2RDF and Chembl webapps released

2011-06-30 Thread Peter Ansell
On 30 June 2011 18:43, Matthias Samwald wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Great work! On the example page you provided > (http://bio2rdf.org/page/geneid:12334) I also see properties such as > http://purl.org/science/owl/sciencecommons/describes_gene_or_gene_product_mentioned_by > which come from the Science

Re: Version 1.0 of Bio2RDF and Chembl webapps released

2011-06-30 Thread Peter Ansell
On 30 June 2011 18:05, Egon Willighagen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Peter Ansell wrote: >> The 1.0.1 version of the Bio2RDF server software has been released on >> Sourceforge. The software is designed to be a Linked Data interface to >> a range of RDF datasour

Version 1.0 of Bio2RDF and Chembl webapps released

2011-06-30 Thread Peter Ansell
Hi all, The 1.0.1 version of the Bio2RDF server software has been released on Sourceforge. The software is designed to be a Linked Data interface to a range of RDF datasources, with the current examples being Bio2RDF and Chembl. (There was a small bug fix needed to enable endpoint round-robin betw

Re: "Metadata about metadata" paper published in Future Internet

2010-06-21 Thread Peter Ansell
On 22 June 2010 02:30, Carl Taswell wrote: > > The paper entitled “A Distributed Infrastructure for Metadata about Metadata: > The HDMM Architectural Style and PORTAL-DOORS System” has been published in > 2010 Future Internet 2(2):156-189. > > > > Future Internet is an Open Access journal, and t

Mistake in NCBO ontologies

2010-06-03 Thread Peter Ansell
The access to ontologies via the bioontology SPARQL endpoint at http://sparql.bioontology.org/sparql/ is great, but there are a few mistakes in the data. There are many places where skos:broader has been used to link to a literal instead of a URI. It would be great to have the following types of s

Dailymed RDF dataset has different identifiers to the original dataset

2010-05-26 Thread Peter Ansell
Hi all, One of the LODD RDF datasets, Dailymed, seems to have created identifiers for items without using the identifiers that are already available. For example, is equivalent to

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

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Ansell
I agree completely! Cheers, Peter On 2 February 2010 09:26, Andrea Splendiani wrote: > Hi, > > I think there are two aspects related to semantics. > One is interpretation (like: the world is flat by Mark). And this is in the > ontology or, if you want, even in queries. > But there is also the

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

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Ansell
On 2 February 2010 09:08, Danny Ayers wrote: > Peter, I agree with 99% of what you said but this bit bothers me a bit: > > >> People regularly misinterpret medical documents currently by examining >> them without the proper medical training. Adding superclasses etc or >> deleting elements as they

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

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Ansell
On 2 February 2010 08:16, Jim McCusker wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:53 PM, John Madden wrote: >> >> Hi Oliver, >>        (For a medical document, it might not be *me* that insists on this >> claim; it might be my employer/hospital. >>        They don't want people attributing meanings to the

Re: Health Care and Life Sciences SemanticWb on iPhone and iPod touch

2009-12-17 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/12/18 Donald Doherty : > Hi Kei, > > Great to hear from you and the podcast idea is excellent. I wonder, is there > any effort to have semantics attached to the podcasts? That'd be cool to > have triples indicating content. > > The main difficulty with making an iPhone app work with multiple S

Re: Linked Data for ICD? OPCS-4?

2009-10-04 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/10/5 Hugh Glaser : > Sorry, should have given an example: > http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/drugbank/page/drugs/DB00588 There is also the issue that the dbpedia URI's are not the same as the ones everyone else is using. Ie, http://www.dbpedia.org/ URI's are quite distinct from http://dbpedia.

Re: [BioRDF] Mapping MeSH to DBpedia

2009-09-14 Thread Peter Ansell
I integrated this as a source for both DBpedia and Mesh on Bio2RDF in a similar way to your OBO2DBpedia mappings. See [1] for example. The equivalent Mesh term contains all of the Pubmed references as links [2]. Cheers, Peter [1] http://qut.bio2rdf.org/dbpedia:Primary_motor_cortex [2] http://qut

Bio2RDF server version 0.6.0 released

2009-06-22 Thread Peter Ansell
Hi all, The next version of the Bio2RDF software, version 0.6.0 was released today on sourceforge [1] It has some major feature additions over the previous version, with the highlights being an RDF based configuration, the ability to update the configuration while the server is running, and suppo

Re: drug side effects

2009-05-05 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/5/6 Kei Cheung : > Matthias Samwald wrote: > >> I have also started to convert SIDER into aTags, but our two conversions >> will be complementary. What I am doing is mapping the information to the OBO >> disease ontology and to DBpedia (for drug names), and reusing OBO and >> DBpedia URIs dire

Re: drug side effects

2009-04-29 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/4/29 Matthias Samwald : > I have also started to convert SIDER into aTags, but our two conversions > will be complementary. What I am doing is mapping the information to the OBO > disease ontology and to DBpedia (for drug names), and reusing OBO and > DBpedia URIs directly. The conversion will

Re: drug side effects

2009-04-28 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/4/29 Matthias Samwald : > We have metadata! The download page (http://sideeffects.embl.de/download/) > contains Creative Commons licensing HTML, which in  turn contains RDFa. > We can extract the RDF from the page with a web service: > > http://srv.buzzword.org.uk/turtle,strict=aegu/sideeffect

Re: Announcement: Bio2RDF 0.3 released

2009-04-02 Thread Peter Ansell
milar list of licenses to redirect http://bio2rdf.org/license/namespace:identifier to would also be nice (Search for "Query=license" on [4] for the current list of those) Cheers, Peter Ansell [1] https://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=142631 [2] http://bio2rdf.blogs

Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-03-31 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/3/31 Phillip Lord : > "Matthias Samwald" writes: >> To use a (still quite naive) physics example: 'Temperature' is a quality of >> an >> object (say, a solution in a petri dish). This quality only inheres in the >> solution, but not in a single molecule. > > I think this is wrong; temperatur

Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-03-26 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/3/27 John Madden : > Hi Peter, > > >> >> It would be infinitely better than seeAlso where you have no idea what >> the intent is, other than it isn't owl:sameAs or anything else in >> between. > > Of course, you could create a property ex:similarTo in your own namespace, > and then declare tha

Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-03-26 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/3/27 Oliver Ruebenacker : > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Peter Ansell wrote: >> It would be infinitely better than seeAlso where you have no idea what >> the intent is, other than it isn't owl:sameAs or anything else in >> between. > >  owl:usersW

Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-03-26 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/3/27 John F. Madden : > Pat et al., > > It sounds like people sometimes have an irresistible itch to say that "A is > similar to B", but this statement as such has very little semantic content. > > Perhaps it's not really intended as a statement that has a truth value, but > rather as a record

Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-03-25 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/3/26 Pat Hayes : > Well, if you can tell us how to do some weaving, we maybe can make progress. > The properties of sameAs are fairly easy to list. It is transitive, > reflexive, symmetric and substitutive: if A sameAs B and something is true > of A, then its also true of B.  So, which of thes

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

2009-03-25 Thread Peter Ansell
ch > content in the biomedical domain, creating such a mapping is an obvious (and > very useful) thing to do. Does Wikipedia have any references to OBO? The best way to extend DBpedia would be by editing Wikipedia IMO. Cheers, Peter Ansell

Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-03-23 Thread Peter Ansell
t part is up to the interested end-user and really shouldn't raise the entry bar to new producers. Cheers, Peter Ansell

Re: Announcement: Bio2RDF 0.3 released

2009-03-22 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/3/22 Egon Willighagen : > Hi Peter, > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Peter Ansell wrote: >> owl:sameAs fits well for that purpose. >> >>> http://rdf.openmolecules.net/?InChI=1/C12H8O2S/c13-8-5-6-10-11(12(8)14)7-3-1-2-4-9(7)15-10/h1-6,13-14H >>> &g

Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-03-22 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/3/22 Oliver Ruebenacker : >     Hello Peter, All, > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Peter Ansell wrote: >> 2009/3/22 Egon Willighagen : >>> Chemists are not interested in single molecules (well, most are not, >>> but with increasing nanotechnology...

Re: Announcement: Bio2RDF 0.3 released

2009-03-21 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/3/20 Egon Willighagen : > Hi Peter, > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Peter Ansell wrote: >> * Some http://database.bio2rdf.org/database:identifier URI's are given >> by this, but these aren't standard, and are only shown where there is >> still a

Re: Announcement: Bio2RDF 0.3 released

2009-03-21 Thread Peter Ansell
), or search within a particular database >> for text searches. The searches are all performed using the virtuoso >> fulltext search paradigm, ie, bif:contains, and other sparql endpoints >> haven't yet been implemented even with regex because it is reasonably >> slow but it would be simple to construct a query if people thought it >> was necessary. The URL syntax is /search/searchTerm and >> /searchns/targetdatabase:searchTerm >> >> If anyone has any SPARQL queries on biology related databases that >> they regularly execute that can either be parameterised or turned into >> Pipes then it would be great to include them in future distributions >> for others to use. > > absolutely! > -=Michel=- Sounds good. Look forward to creating new query aliases to suit your common operations (ie, make up new /links/ or /search/ operations based on other forms of querying) Cheers, Peter Ansell

Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-03-21 Thread Peter Ansell
ing in a single theory. Making god-like decisions about which class particular records actually belong to as ontologists might sound fun but in the world case it seems counterintuitive because it doesn't promote progress in both areas concurrently. Cheers, Peter Ansell

Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-03-21 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/3/22 Michel_Dumontier : > Eric and friends, > > > >  I’m very sympathetic to the simplifying assumption of not distinguishing > between a record and the molecular entity it represents, but there are some > important considerations. First, we need to be cautious in the > transformation of recor

Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

2009-03-21 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/3/21 eric neumann : > Scott, > Funny, I was just about to send a message on a very similar issue; may be > it's what you're referring to, but let me know either way... > After talking with many folks in industry over the last several months, it > is becoming quite clear that when dealing with

Announcement: Bio2RDF 0.3 released

2009-03-19 Thread Peter Ansell
s then it would be great to include them in future distributions for others to use. Cheers, Peter Ansell [1] https://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=142631

Re: An application of the Semantic Web for finding alternative drug applications

2008-09-11 Thread Peter Ansell
- "Amit Sheth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Finding "potentially interesting" paths, subgraphs, and pattering in > semantic web data (eg those > created from complex entity and relationship extraction from > biomedical literature [1], > semantic annotation and provenence of experimental data

Re: An application of the Semantic Web for finding alternative drug applications

2008-09-10 Thread Peter Ansell
- "Kei Cheung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Kei Cheung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "eric neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "w3c semweb hcls" > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:42:33 AM GMT +10:00 Brisbane > Subject: Re: An application of the Semantic Web for finding alternative d

Re: Towards a cyberinfrastructure for the biological sciences: progress, visions and challenges

2008-08-20 Thread Peter Ansell
- "Marco Roos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Marco Roos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Matthias Samwald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "public-semweb-lifesci" , [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 20 August, 2008 8:11:36 PM GMT +10:00 Brisbane > Subject: Re: Towards a cy

Re: Towards a cyberinfrastructure for the biological sciences: progress, visions and challenges

2008-08-20 Thread Peter Ansell
- "Matthias Samwald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Matthias Samwald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "public-semweb-lifesci" > Sent: Wednesday, 20 August, 2008 6:53:09 PM GMT +10:00 Brisbane > Subject: Re: Towards a cyberinfrastructure for the biological sciences: > progress, visions and

Re: BioRDF Announcement

2008-07-22 Thread Peter Ansell
2008/7/23 Olivier Bodenreider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Peter Ansell wrote: >> >> 2008/7/22 Olivier Bodenreider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> >>> [...] > >>> Regarding the UMLS Metathesaurus, there are various kinds of restrictions &g

Re: BioRDF Announcement

2008-07-21 Thread Peter Ansell
2008/7/22 Olivier Bodenreider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > As the NLM guy on this forum, I probably need to clarify the intellectual > property restriction issues with the UMLS. > > The Semantic Network is entirely owned by NLM and free of IP restrictions. > Conversion to OWL has been studied in the p

Re: 'Gene WIki' announced

2008-07-14 Thread Peter Ansell
y exists. > > -Nigam. > >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:public-semweb- >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kei Cheung >>Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 12:06 PM >>To: Peter Ansell >>Cc: Matthias Samwald; w3c semweb hcls >>Sub

Re: 'Gene WIki' announced

2008-07-14 Thread Peter Ansell
to write a documentation for the DBpedia developers that could help them >>> improve the representation of biomedical wiki entries in DBpedia (such as >>> creating direct links to the URIs of Uniprot-RDF). This could also be a >>> helpful addition. >>> >&g

Re: 'Gene WIki' announced

2008-07-14 Thread Peter Ansell
RDF). This could also be a > helpful addition. > > Cheers, > Matthias Samwald > DERI Galway, Ireland // Semantic Web Company, Austria > > > > > - Original Message - From: "Peter Ansell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "w3c semweb hcls" > S

Re: 'Gene WIki' announced

2008-07-13 Thread Peter Ansell
When Francois Belleau was investigating integrating the infobox information into Bio2RDF he found that the infoboxes were missing in the dbpedia database. Not sure if that changed since he last checked. It would be very valuable to have the information from infoboxes and the gene-wiki templates i

Re: The W3C mailing lists will be limited to interest group participants.

2008-06-26 Thread Peter Ansell
2008/6/27 Dan Brickley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Orri Erling wrote: >> >> As providers of RDF database software, also for the life sciences >> community, >> we find this list a useful resource for maintaining a feel for the use >> cases >> and requirements as they emerge. I would be in favor of le

Re: messages to Data Integration in Life Sciences conf

2008-06-16 Thread Peter Ansell
2008/6/17 Michel_Dumontier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Eric, > I'll be attending DILS, which does indeed look to be very interesting from > our perspective. Holger will also be attending. Together, we will certainly > raise the issue of HCLS participation with relevant or potential semweb > groups

Re: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level

2008-04-03 Thread Peter Ansell
On 02/04/2008, Samson Tu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 27, 2008, at 3:58 AM, Kashyap, Vipul wrote: > > If your Acute MI is a subclass of Observation/Problem, then instances of > "Acute MI" class are observations of Acute MI, not instances of the disease > MI. An "observation" does not have s

Re: Trust in statements (was BioRDF Brainstorming)

2008-02-12 Thread Peter Ansell
On 13/02/2008, Matt Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a quick note that the 'trust' we place in an agent /could/ be > described probabilistically, but could also be described logically. I'm > assuming that the probabilities that the trust annotations are likely to > subjective probabiliti

Re: RE: BioRDF Brainstorming

2008-02-12 Thread Peter Ansell
On 12/02/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Good point. What I was sort of driving at (and failing) was the context > > in which the facts are mentioned---are they the aim of the paper, > > background information, mentioned as results and so forth? > > In what I see as the i

uri note comments

2007-12-06 Thread Peter Ansell
I am reviewing revision 40: http://sw.neurocommons.org/2007/uri-note/40/ The points of current confusion relate to inconsistencies with the way uri's are created essentially, and as is stated the main factor for keeping things alive and well is that servers stay up with a consistent set of URI's

URI and Web Architecture Revisited

2007-11-13 Thread Peter Ansell
On 15/11/2007, Mark Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Xiaoshu, This is a beautiful synopsis of the problem - THANK YOU for > taking the time to write it up as well as you did! I will be using this > in my lectures for sure! :-) > > What made me chuckle was how similar the DFDF concept is

Re: [semweb-lifesci]

2007-11-12 Thread Peter Ansell
That is one way. But does compliance with that standard mean you cannot also follow the defacto standard with respect to modifying the subject. W3C lists are the only ones which I am on that do things differently in this respect. I have not checked, but they are possibly the only ones who have im

Re: [semweb-lifesci]

2007-11-12 Thread Peter Ansell
I second this. It would make it much easier. Also, if the default reply-to address could be set to the list address it would also make it easier to interact with in my opinion. Peter On 13/11/2007, Wacek Kusnierczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To the maintainers of this list: consider config

Re: [HCLS] Challenges and goals for the HCLS Semantic Web community in the next years

2007-11-07 Thread Peter Ansell
On 08/11/2007, Giovanni Tummarello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Peter > > Pipes.deri.org looks reasonably confusing... If they had a graphical > > interface it would be more obvious whether there were pipes in it, as > > right now it just looks like a web (text) editor for low level XML > > > I

Re: [HCLS] Challenges and goals for the HCLS Semantic Web community in the next years

2007-11-07 Thread Peter Ansell
On 08/11/2007, Matthias Samwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As I will not be able to attend the F2F meeting in Boston this week, and the > teleconference connection will probably not work (as teleconferences usually > do), I have collected my thoughts on several aspects of our Semantic Web >

Re: comments on the uri note

2007-11-05 Thread Peter Ansell
On 06/11/2007, Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter, > > > From: Peter Ansell > > [ . .. . ] > > Suppose two people come up with slightly different, but mutually > > useful, definitions at the same time and, before an autho

Re: comments on the uri note

2007-11-04 Thread Peter Ansell
On 05/11/2007, Jonathan Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear HCLS list - I haven't put the draft out for general review, but > am planning to do so tomorrow. > My reason for waiting is past experience of "draft fatigue" - most > people will only read one draft of something. If you're one of

Re: what would change for me?

2007-11-01 Thread Peter Ansell
Hi, My biggest preferences are basically that: * HTTP GET can be used to retrieve metadata; AND, * that the metadata identifier be the default for identifiers used as URI's on other documents (if people are worried that they won't be able to iterpret their documents then XSLT can be used to trans

Re: what would change for me?

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Ansell
> tag-style naming authority mechanism we added with ART help in the > directions you were arguing and, as you recognized implicitly in > emailing the list, I don't think those requirements have been well > articulated and the schemes under discussion don't seem to me to &g

Re: what would change for me?

2007-10-24 Thread Peter Ansell
On 24/10/2007, Jonathan Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 21, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Peter Ansell wrote: > After I do this, I > would be grateful if you would recast your message above as proposed > recommendations (what you would do if others would) that meet the >

what would change for me?

2007-10-22 Thread Peter Ansell
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 opinions based solely on the requirements document http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG_BioRDF_Subgroup/Tasks/URI_Best_Practices/Recommendations/Require