Re: Answers to questions about BioPortal

William Bug wrote:

> Here, here.
>
> I also would join Chimezie in saying I don't want to ruffle feathers 
> on this issue, but if either NCBO and/or NLM/NCBI would start 
> experimenting with a more broadly deployed LSID Registry & Resolution 
> Service (NCBO for ontologies and NLM/NCBI for BioRDF data sets and/or 
> data sets with ontology-centric annotations), I think there would be 
> many interested in making use of it.


Agreed. The whole point of the semantic web is to come up with a 
standard that can broadly be applied to interconnect or integrate 
ontologies/data sets across different organizations (e.g., NCBO and 
NLM/NCBI).

Cheers,

-Kei

-Kei