RE: [HCLS] Bridging Ontologies - with Foundational Ontologies from Kashyap, Vipul on 2006-08-22 (public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org from August 2006)

From: Kashyap, Vipul <VKASHYAP1@PARTNERS.ORG>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:49:14 -0400
To: "Matthias Samwald" <samwald@gmx.at>, <ogbujic@bio.ri.ccf.org>, "Donald Doherty" <donald.doherty@brainstage.com>
Cc: <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Message-ID: <2BF18EC866AF0448816CDB62ADF6538104C15EB3@PHSXMB11.partners.org>

> Great to hear that! It really seems that most of the promises of semantic
> web ontologies are only realised when top-level ontologies like DOLCE are
> used. Maybe we should evaluate the potential use of DOLCE or BFO for the
> BioRDF tasks?

[VK] Whereas I agree with the use of foundational ontologies, I may not agree
with the sweeping generalization above. Significant potential can be realized by
using not so formally organized resources such as the UMLS for instance.

---Vipul

Received on Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:49:30 UTC