Hi Alan,
I had a couple of ideas about how semantically tagged spreadsheets could
work in a lab:
- Imagine you could configure a spreadsheet service by simply loading a
sample spreadsheet that has been tagged, and selecting the tags that you
want. The tags basically point to and describe the data in the spreadsheet
that will be parsed out. It would be nice if an ontology also had
validation criteria associated with it. This would insure that when the
data is parsed, it is also verified prior to being used in the workflow.
So if your spreadsheet contains a Genpept ID and your workflow requires a
SwissProt ID, you would see an error.
- Beyond loading data into a workflow, it would also be nice to be able
to load data into a semantically tagged database or a triple-store.
Imagine if you had tagged the columns in a database table (something like
D2R), and could load the data directly from the spreadsheet into the
database.
On a slightly different note, I was wondering if the current validation
functionality in workflows, supports semantic validation of ports? If not,
that would be a useful addition, especially if the default services were
already semantically tagged. This would make it possible to suggest
mappings between ports in bulk, as opposed to the more time-consuming
port-by-port mapping that you must do now.
Cheers,
Mark
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Alan R Williams <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 19/05/2013 00:51, Mark Fortner wrote:
> > I was looking at the Rightfield program recently, and it looks like a
> very
> > interesting way of semantically tagging a spreadsheet. This would allow
> > you to create a template and tag a column with a given ontology entry.
> > Users could then use instances of the spreadsheet for data entry, and
> use
> > a workflow to parse and load the data into a workflow. I was wondering
> if
> > there were any plans to support semantically tagged spreadsheets?
>
> Rightfield is very good.
>
> I have talked with Stuart Owen (who develops Rightfield) and it should
> be possible, especially as Rightfield already has much of the necessary
> functionality.
>
> I have looked at tagging data for the BioVeL project, primarily to
> associate data ownership and licensing.
>
> What you suggested is interesting. Do you have any ideas for what would
> be downstream of the semantic spreadsheet import and also for how the
> semantics of the data should be exposed?
>
> We don't currently have any plans for this, but would be delighted to
> collaborate on it.
>
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mark Fortner
>
> Alan
>
>
>
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