- From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:35:41 +0100
- To: w3c semweb hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
>>>>> "TW" == Trish Whetzel <whetzel@pcbi.upenn.edu> writes: TW> Hi all, TW> As a terribly simple question, is it possible to take the actual TW> FuGE-ML that is generated on a per instance reporting of an TW> experiment/study/investigation and then convert than to RDF for TW> use with semantic web technologies? Converting between one syntax and another is fairly simple, and there are some reasonably tools for it. XSLT would work for converting XML into RDF. I wouldn't like to use it for converting the other way (actually I wouldn't like to use it at all, but this is personal prejudice!). This is assuming, however, that the semantics of the two representations are compatible. To give an example, syntactically it is possible to convert between the GO DAG and an OWL representation of GO. However, the GO part-of relationship doesn't distinguish universal and existential, while OWL forces you to make this distinction; you can't sit on the fence. So, the simple answer to a simple question is: it depends. I wouldn't assume that FuGE-ML will be convertible into a given ontology or representation in RDF, unless a reasonable amount of care is taken in the design of FuGE-ML or the ontology to ensure that it can happen. Course, you could always hack it with some rules and a bit of human intervention. That works as well. Cheers Phil
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