RE: [hcls] Updated wiki page for HCLS Knowledge Base

2009-10-14 Thread Michel_Dumontier
u...@w3.org [mailto:public-semweb- > lifesci-requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of Mark > Sent: October-14-09 7:40 AM > To: Egon Willighagen; Matthias Samwald > Cc: public-semweb-lifesci > Subject: Re: [hcls] Updated wiki page for HCLS Knowledge Base > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:51:07 -0700,

Re: [hcls] Updated wiki page for HCLS Knowledge Base

2009-10-14 Thread Mark
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:51:07 -0700, Egon Willighagen wrote: Just think of it like this: if you aggregated the data already in the way the scientists wants it, he is no longer doing cutting edge science (it's already been done!). Perfectly stated! :-) Moreover, warehousing in and of itse

Re: [hcls] Updated wiki page for HCLS Knowledge Base

2009-10-14 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Matthias Samwald wrote: Hi Egon, Linked Data focuses on crawling the web. At least, that's the impression I have... yet, a single store to query is indeed much more convenient... it's sort of contradicting: I don't find that contradicting. Having URIs that resolve to something useful is prac

Re: [hcls] Updated wiki page for HCLS Knowledge Base

2009-10-14 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Matthias Samwald wrote: >>  that said, I also don't think the final SPARQL end point should be remote >> at all, > > So where should the final SPARQL end point be located? In a server inside > the intranet of each organization? On the client side? How should it b

Re: [hcls] Updated wiki page for HCLS Knowledge Base

2009-10-14 Thread Matthias Samwald
Hi Egon, Linked Data focuses on crawling the web. At least, that's the impression I have... yet, a single store to query is indeed much more convenient... it's sort of contradicting: I don't find that contradicting. Having URIs that resolve to something useful is practical. Having a SPARQL en

Re: [hcls] Updated wiki page for HCLS Knowledge Base

2009-10-13 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Matthias Samwald wrote: >> Back in 2006 in the "Creeps" paper, Ben and I wrote that the SWHCLS >> community has spent too much time focusing on "Semantic" rather than on >> "Web"... and it really hasn't changed much nearly 4 years later :-(  I >> honestly think tha

Re: [hcls] Updated wiki page for HCLS Knowledge Base

2009-10-13 Thread Matthias Samwald
:-) I still find statements like this amusing, especially from the flagship organization representing the Semantic Web for healthcare and life sciences. Thanks for calling me the flagship organization representing the Semantic Web for health care and life sciences ;) (as an aside, the e-mai

Re: [hcls] Updated wiki page for HCLS Knowledge Base

2009-10-13 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Mark wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:34:01 -0700, Matthias Samwald wrote: >> Besides, even though linked data URIs and federated queries are nice, it >> is quite practical to have all relevant datasets accessible through a single >> SPARQL endpoint. > > :-)  I sti

Re: [hcls] Updated wiki page for HCLS Knowledge Base

2009-10-13 Thread Mark
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:34:01 -0700, Matthias Samwald wrote: Besides, even though linked data URIs and federated queries are nice, it is quite practical to have all relevant datasets accessible through a single SPARQL endpoint. :-) I still find statements like this amusing, especially

[hcls] Updated wiki page for HCLS Knowledge Base

2009-10-13 Thread Matthias Samwald
Dear all, Now and then I receive questions about the contents of the HCLS Knowledge Base and how it can be queried. I want to point out that there is a wiki page that describes the content and named graphs within the knowledge base: http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG_BioRDF_Subgroup/DERI_HCLS_KB I