Re: linking a symbol with a dataset

Hi Vladimir,
  Can  you elaborate with a definition for 'isAtomicPartOf'?  Is this
already defined in a vocabulary?

m.
Michel Dumontier
Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford University
Chair, W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life Sciences Interest Group
http://dumontierlab.com


On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Vladimir Mironov
<vladimir.n.mironov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how about 'isAtomicPartOf'?
>
> Vladimir
>
> On 8 December 2014 at 18:04, Michel Dumontier <michel.dumontier@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>   On the call today we discussed the issue [1] of linking a symbol in
>> a triple (e.g. a subject, a predicate, *or* an object) to a dataset.
>> The use case for this is twofold : to provide a direct link between
>> data items and their datasets in a Linked Data manner, and to survey
>> the use of data items across datasets. While we agreed that using a
>> relation such as dc:isPartOf is fairly natural to link the triple
>> itself to the dataset, it is much less clear for linking the
>> components to the dataset. In Bio2RDF we used void:inDataset, but the
>> domain of this relation is a foaf:Document, so it muddies the
>> semantics by entailing a possible disjoint type with whatever the
>> subject has been typed with (e.g. protein, disease, etc).
>>
>> We discussed the suitability of existing vocabularies, but none, to
>> our knowledge, clearly fit the situation. For instance, can
>> dc:isPartOf (http://purl.org/dc/terms/isPartOf) be used as a logical
>> partition of the dataset with the data item? or is SIO's refers to
>> (http://semanticscience.org/resource/refers-to) potential suitable, if
>> not somewhat vague?
>>
>> We welcome your thoughts on the matter. Do you know of a suitable
>> relation? Should we consider some new relation such as utilizes /
>> is-utilized-in or is-data-item-in / has-data-item?
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> m.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/joejimbo/HCLSDatasetDescriptions/issues/90
>>
>> Michel Dumontier
>> Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford
>> University
>> Chair, W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life Sciences Interest
>> Group
>> http://dumontierlab.com
>>
>

Received on Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:37:05 UTC