RE: DBpedia to OBO mapping: did someone already work on it?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-semweb-lifesci-request@w3.org [mailto:public-semweb-
> lifesci-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Kei Cheung
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:52 PM
> To: Matthias Samwald
> Cc: public-semweb-lifesci
> Subject: Re: DBpedia to OBO mapping: did someone already work on it?
> 
> Matthias,
> 
> In DBPedia, the following pages describe 2 brain regions
(Telencephalon
> and Cerebrum):
> 
> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Telencephalon
> http://dbpedia.org/page/Cerebrum
> 
> NIFSTD is listed as one of the neuroscience ontologies through
> BioPortal, its description of cerebrum is available at:
> 
> http://bioportal.bioontology.org/visualize/39595/p15:birnlex_1042
> 
> If you read the editorial note (written by Bill Bug), it says:
> 
> "It isn't clear all would agree Cerebrum and Telencephalon are
> equivalent."
> 
> Should we use "sameAs" or something else?

If the two are not equivalent, then you need something else. See if any
of the SKOS: predicates fit:

 http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/


-=Michel=-


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -Kei
> 
> 
> Matthias Samwald wrote:
> > Question: Does a mapping between DBpedia and the OBO ontologies
> exist?
> > Has someone already invested some time in doing this, or at least
> > reviewed how to best approach it?
> >
> > Given the central position of DBpedia in the linked data cloud and
> its
> > rich content in the biomedical domain, creating such a mapping is an
> > obvious (and very useful) thing to do.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Matthias Samwald
> >
> > DERI Galway, Ireland
> > http://deri.ie/
> >
> > Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Austria
> > http://kli.ac.at/
> >
> 
>

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