- From: Mark Wilkinson <markw@illuminae.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:46:17 -0700
- To: donald.doherty@brainstage.com
- Cc: 'Matthew Cockerill' <matt@biomedcentral.com>, public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org, wilbanks@creativecommons.org, 'Daniel Rubin' <dlrubin@stanford.edu>
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 19:18 -0400, Donald Doherty wrote:
> it’s an embarrassment that the anatomy ontologies that are out there
> are locked up behind licensing.
Amen to that!
Imagine the state we'd be in if, starting in 1991, all web pages had
password protection on them, or you had to download them to a local
database in order to use them, and then were not allowed to re-
distribute the concepts they contained. The Semantic Web will never
exist if the major players wont play nicely!
We learned everything we need to know about the Semantic Web in
Kindergarten ;-)
M
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Mark Wilkinson
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University of British Columbia
PI in Bioinformatics, iCAPTURE Centre
St. Paul's Hospital, Rm. 166, 1081 Burrard St.
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"For most of this century we have viewed communications as a conduit,
a pipe between physical locations on the planet.
What's happened now is that the conduit has become so big and interesting
that communication has become more than a conduit,
it has become a destination in its own right..."
Paul Saffo - Director, Institute for the Future
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