Re: 'Gene WIki' announced

2008-07-10 Thread Roderic Page
money is on the former. Regards Rod On 10 Jul 2008, at 18:03, Bryan Bishop wrote: 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 wa

Re: 'Gene WIki' announced

2008-07-10 Thread Roderic Page
I was thinking that the Semantic MediaWiki extensions (http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki) might be useful in bridging this work to other datasets. thinking out loud, Dan -- http://danbri.org/ ----- Roderic Page Profe

Re: URL +1, LSID -1

2007-07-12 Thread Roderic Page
cess for getting metadata (and data!) for resources identified by HTTP URIs were more systematic. The proposals I've heard are all awful, but I think it's a good thing to work on. Jonathan On 7/12/07, Roderic Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm a little confused. Are yo

Re: URL +1, LSID -1

2007-07-12 Thread Roderic Page
I'm a little confused. Are you asking how do we find LSIDs that exist (i.e., some sort of discovery process)? I think most people intend LSIDs to be identifiers, e.g., they would appear in a list of search results, be cited in a paper, web page, or other document (such as an email message,

Re: URL +1, LSID -1

2007-07-12 Thread Roderic Page
wrote: Roderic Page wrote: Lastly, I wrote a PHP client to test LSID servers, which is online at http://linnaeus.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/lsid/. I use this to debug both my client code, and test LSID servers. Nice! I noticed that none of the example LSIDs on the page (or the one you mention

Re: URL +1, LSID -1

2007-07-12 Thread Roderic Page
I would also like to see an LSID HOWTO for consumers of LSIDs. Perhaps this exists already. But right now, if I get an LSID in some email, I haven't a clue how to track down an LSID resolver that knows about it (although via google I learned that sourceforge might be a good place to start). Th

Re: bioGUID

2007-03-30 Thread Roderic Page
Dear Jun, I guess what Matt means is that he is expecting a kind of naming scheme for the URIs from your site http://bioguid.info. For example, the LSID authories listed at http://lsid.biopathways.org/ authorities.shtml use a consistent schema to publish a LSID for a bio-entity. Sorry for

Re: bioGUID

2007-03-30 Thread Roderic Page
Dear Matt, I was wondering what the rules are for creating the actual identifier that bioGUID would end up using to reference this database record. The rules, such as they are, are in my previous post. I'm not sure. There seem to be various adventures of GO in RDF around the place. I th

Re: bioGUID

2007-03-29 Thread Roderic Page
Dear Matt, Do you have any publications that outline the motivation here (except the LSIDs don't work for the semantic web argument you have outlined in your online material)? No publication as yet on bioGUID, but I'm working on some rough notes. In essence the motivation is to get biodiver

bioGUID

2007-03-29 Thread Roderic Page
I've put together a web site called http://bioguid.info which, rather grandly, is an attempt to bootstrap the biodiversity Semantic Web by providing resolvable URIs for biological objects, such as publications, taxonomic names, nucleotide sequences, and specimens. These URIs (or "GUIDs")