Re: ISMB/ECCB2007 Demo Acceptance

I think it would be good to show this at the demo - it demonstrates  
that "view source" is effective for the semantic web.
-Alan

On Jun 18, 2007, at 2:24 AM, William Bug wrote:

> I will not be able to attend, unfortunately.
>
> However, the Mouse BIRN Atlas Toolkit (MBAT) contributing  
> programmers have succeeded in using some of the demo (the Allan  
> Brain Atlas (ABA) RDF repository and GoogleMaps/JS-HTML template  
> Alan created) to integrate ABA data in a semantically relevant  
> manner into the MBAT atlasing environment.  I was able to quickly  
> Skype Alan in last week as they demo'd this for the Mouse BIRN  
> group.  I think it would be a wonderful example of how SemWeb made  
> it possible for BIRN to achieve a "lite" integration of a complex,  
> related image repository (ABA) with the primary cost being to learn  
> how to use Jena for SPARQL queries and to enhance Alan's original  
> GoogleMaps/JS-HTML template by running it in Java HTML Browser  
> where they could also include thumbnails of the entire coronal or  
> sagittal series - as well as links to the NeuroCommons "related  
> literature" repository.  These were all experienced Java coders  
> (really two lead programmers) who started with NO knowledge of RDF  
> or SemWeb Tech in late April while working on many other tasks in  
> parallel.  Given the glacial pace some of these joint  
> neuroinformatics projects move at, I think what they were able to  
> achieve with a hours invested per week over several weeks is truly  
> quite remarkable.
>
> If others feel it's relevant, this could be added to the ISMB demo  
> as an example  of how quickly others have been able to make  
> effective use of this SemWeb demo application.
>
> This will certainly be shown at the Society for Neuroscience Mouse  
> BIRN MBAT presentations in November, as will use of the exact same  
> interface against other multi-resolution image pyramids (the  
> Zoomify format used by ABA) collected in other Mouse BIRN related  
> projects such as the Cell-Centered Database (CCDB) and the Mouse  
> Brain Library (MBL) projects.
>
> Please let me know whether you think it would be appropriate to  
> include this in the ISMB demo, and I'll have the MBAT folks get in  
> touch.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
> On Jun 16, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Eric Neumann wrote:
>
>> Eric,
>>
>> It is planned to be the same demo with a few additions to the  
>> query, including some additional visualizations.
>>
>> Folks on the HCLSIG mailing list, please add your name to the  
>> following page if you are planning to attend ISMB2007: http:// 
>> esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/ISMB2007
>>
>> We will use this to coordinate plans...
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: public-semweb-lifesci-request@w3.org on behalf of Eric Jain
>> Sent: Sat 6/16/2007 11:21 AM
>> To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
>> Subject: Re: Fwd: ISMB/ECCB2007 Demo Acceptance
>>
>>
>> Eric Neumann wrote:
>> > We have been given a slot to show the HCLS demo there (see  
>> below), so
>> > for those of you planning to be at ISMB next month, please be  
>> sure to
>> > attend/participate.
>>
>> Great, I'll be there -- provided it doesn't overlap with my own  
>> demo :-)
>>
>> Is it the same demo that was presented in Banff, or is it being  
>> updated?
>>
>> btw would be interesting to know who is attending ISMB/ECCB/BOSC etc!
>>
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> Bill Bug
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