RE: scientific publishing task force update

As I was curious about the claims made in the article that Mark M pointed out, I
had a look at the EXPO ontology and also found a couple of references to EXPO
and two discussion threads. (My apology if someone has already posted these). 

http://www.jsbi.org/journal/GIW04/GIW04P180.pdf
http://bbu.uwcm.ac.uk/awbw2006/talks/LarisaSoldatova.pdf
http://www.nodalpoint.org/2006/06/07/ontology_for_experiments
http://community.newscientist.com/thread.jspa?threadID=303&tstart=0

Although it doesn't look like there exisits such a "translator" or any software
code beyond the OWL ontology, the EXPO model does seem to be well-thought-of. In
many aspects, it overlaps with what the SWAN (Semantic Web Applications in
Neuromedicine) project is trying to model, although the latter focuses more on
"application".

It might be very ambitious to come up a "translator" that turns experimental
write-ups into EXPO representations.  However, it's  definitely useful and
doable to use things like EXPO to help scientists manage their experimental
data. 

Yong

-----Original Message-----
From: public-semweb-lifesci-request@w3.org on behalf of Mark Musen
Sent: Fri 6/9/2006 1:29 PM
To: AJ Chen
Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
Subject: Re: scientific publishing task force update
 

On Jun 8, 2006, at 10:09 PM, AJ Chen wrote:
> The first task is to develop an ontology for self-publishing of  
> experiment. I have proposed a list of objects and properties  
> related to self-publishing experiment. Please download the attached  
> file under Task Status and review the proposal. Your feedback and  
> comments will be greatly appreciated.  You may also edit the file  
> directly and email me the edited file.
>

A colleague just pointed me to this (rather vacuous) article.  Does  
anyone know more about this work?

http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9288-translator-lets- 
computers-understand-experiments-.html

Mark

Received on Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:58:25 UTC