- From: Jack Park <jackpark@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:15:29 -0700
- To: public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Looking at BrainInfo [1], which, as I recall, serves as a nomenclature source for UMLS, the two names, telencephalon, and cerebrum, are treated separately; neither mentions the other as a synonym (unless I missed something). Jack [1] http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/Default.aspx On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: > Kei Cheung wrote: >> >> Matthias, >> >> In DBPedia, the following pages describe 2 brain regions (Telencephalon >> and Cerebrum): >> >> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Telencephalon >> http://dbpedia.org/page/Cerebrum > > <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Telencephalon> dbpprop:redirect > <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cerebrum> > > DBpedia world view should be formally expressed as: > <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Telencephalon> owl:sameAs > <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cerebrum> > > Based on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telencephalon which reads: > The *cerebrum or telencephalon*, together with the diencephalon, constitute > the forebrain.... > > If doesn't set off a war, I'll issue a SPARQL Update :-) > > > Kingsley >> >> 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? >> >> 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/ >>> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > > > > > >
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