RE: Semantic web article in Nature Biotechnology

 

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> From: public-semweb-lifesci-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-semweb-lifesci-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of 
> Eric Neumann
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 6:42 AM
> To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Semantic web article in Nature Biotechnology
> 
> 
> Hello Xiaoshu,
> 
> The proposed charter for HCLSIG 
> (http://www.w3.org/2005/05/swlsig-charter) specifically 
> identifies the need to develop Core Vocabularies in the life 
> sciences and biomedicine. This includes building-out and 
> normalizing ontologies such as you suggest, and a working 
> group in this area will be formed (assuming enough interest) 
> as part of the initial activities of the interest group.
> 
> What we still need to do as a group is understand what ARE 
> some of the important ways to apply biological and biomedical 
> ontologies, especially from a life science semantic web 
> perspective: resource cataloging, data integration, 
> literature imining and tagging, horizontal inferencing, 
> analysis and web-service management? I hope we will be able 
> to discuss to determine which of these we need to work 
> towards for greatest community value.

Yes, I agree.  Maybe as a first step is to collect some use cases?

Received on Friday, 30 September 2005 02:23:14 UTC