- From: Jim McCusker <james.mccusker@yale.edu>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 12:04:29 -0400
- To: James Malone <malone@ebi.ac.uk>
- Cc: HCLS <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, "M. Scott Marshall" <mscottmarshall@gmail.com>
The group I work in at Yale has published a paper on models like this, we try to re-use predicates when possible, and is_about is a core property we use: http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.1648 On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:42 AM, James Malone <malone@ebi.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi Scott, All, > > I was wondering what the general take is on predicates in RDF > representations used by the HCLS group. I've been looking at our RDF model > for Gene Expression Atlas at EBI and presently I'm using the same "is_about" > relation for a lot of the predicates as this is the lowest level of > constraint from the OBO Foundry folks for some of these information > relations. Alan Ruttenberg tells me that empirical evidence suggests that > using a larger number of relationships correlates to poorer ontologies. > However, I've also been told from various RDF advocates that having more > granular level predicates is useful for querying. Are there any thoughts > from the group on this? I have no preconceptions here (I have no reason to > disbelieve Alan or the RDF folks) so open to thoughts and suggestions. > > Cheers, > > James > > -- > European Bioinformatics Institute, > Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, > Cambridge, CB10 1SD, > United Kingdom > Tel: + 44 (0) 1223 494 676 > Fax: + 44 (0) 1223 494 468 > > > > -- Jim McCusker Programmer Analyst Krauthammer Lab, Pathology Informatics Yale School of Medicine james.mccusker@yale.edu | (203) 785-6330 http://krauthammerlab.med.yale.edu PhD Student Tetherless World Constellation Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute mccusj@cs.rpi.edu http://tw.rpi.edu
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